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[?]A company in East Yorkshire has chucked out the wheezy original 660cc turbo engne and stuck in a Suzuki GSX-R1000 motor in the MCC Smart!
130 mph and 0-60 in 4 seconds.
Kit cost £6,000 + the car.
THEY MUST BE A SARNY SHORT OF A PICNIC!! [V][V]Company name is Z-Cars. They did some of the work on my chassis, have been doing BEC stuff for a long while now with background in grasstrack racing.
Website here: https://www.zcars.org.uk/ but no info on the Smarts yet.
I have some pics of the demo car and conversion kit Chris had at the Autosport show recently if anyone is interested..The kit also fits the new Smart roadsters. Having test driven the roadster and also driven GF’s normal Smart, I reckon it’d be best put in the roadster which at least goes round corners to start with! [
]PS. The conversion kit is currently £6000 all in and fitted. This cost may well go down if they can sort out a better way of dealing with the wiring. Currently each conversion is almost completely rewired by hand.. [:0]
Chris was talking about using some kind of mutli-plug connector thing and just plugging all the new bit into the original bit which would obviously speed the process up a bit.
Knowing Chris though, I wouldn’t hold your breath on this one! []
I’d like to see your pics of the Smart Tim. Any pics of your car too? Sounds great.
I have put a temp webpage up with the GSXR1000 Smart pics on here:
https://www.just-the-one.net/smart-BEC.htmlFull details of my own car are on my website here:
https://www.just-the-one.net/Cheers,
Tim.Smart car looks great and even better without the bodywork! Quality of your shots is excellent, what camera are you using?
Ta, its a Fuji Finepix S602Zoom digi camera. Have a half gig flash card so all sots are taken on a high res setting so can be cropped and sized later without losing quality.
Having said that I only ever leave it set on “Auto” so presumably if I knew what I was doing I could get better pics with it!! [
]To take close up shots like that indoors (presumably with a flash) it must be a good one. Where did you see the Smart?
Don’t remember if I used the flash or not – quite possibly though!
the file info tells me all sorts of guff about shutter speed and stuff, but not if the flash was on or not! Ho hum.
The Smart was at the Autosport International sho at the NEC in January. It’s a good show (especially if you can get in the quieter trade days) but mainly racecar type stuff not motorbikes specifically,unless their engines are being used in cars! []Love to see any car/bike stripped down to the chassis. Always looks like there’s gonna be something special going on.
I’ve donated to the forum, have you?More info and video clips of the Smart BECs here, if folks are still interested:
https://www.smartsrus.com/evil_twin_z-cars.htmCheers,
Tim.Could be just the thing for the recent cold and wet weather Gix!
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