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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:56 pm    Post subject: Front Engine Trikes Reply with quote

Any else here ride a front engine trike?

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:08 am    Post subject: Not a Trike Reply with quote

Since no one yet has posted what your looking for in a front engine trike, I thought I would give your thread a bump with a front engine Motorcycle.
VW motors don't always have to be behind the driver or rider I agree!

Motor under and in front of the rider

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Another one

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And another one

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OR? Three wheels with a motor up front

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:33 am    Post subject: Re: Front Engine Trikes Reply with quote

DeathBySnuSnu wrote:
Any else here ride a front engine trike?

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I am not a fan of trikes, but wow that one is awesome. Good visual balance all around.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Front engine trikes are in the configuration that God intended for trikes...never did care for the rear engine = 3-wheeled VW configuration (something about 3-legged pigs comes to mind)
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was hoping to see some more front engine trikes.
Would like me an amazonas but never even seen one in real life.
Have seen the vw beemers.
The type 4 bike is cool. I have seen a type 1 on you tube that was very similar.

Mine is a pile of parts right now. Has been fun for quite a few years.
It has been a 2110 since the 80's
Going back together as a 2387 now.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:02 pm    Post subject: Engine Location Reply with quote

Your trike style is the only way I would own one. I like its looks and functionality! I could $#!t Loads of fun with that ride!

When you wrote
"Would like me an amazonas but never even seen one in real life. "

Trust me it was almost two decades before I found this one. I have only taken it to one VW show and a Vintage motorcycle show now that its back together and a runner. One of the first comments I heard was made to me by a die hard VW guy who said " Dude that Bike is a Unicorn, cant believe I have now seen one in person"
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok... sorry I had to go back and look.

I had read your adventures a while back.
I did not make the connection at first.

Yes indeed a cool unicorn that no one else has here.

I was trolling around looking for folks who hot rod these things in light trikes or bikes.
Wondering how much cam and gear I can run in this thing.
The guys over in the performance thread have not been much help when it comes to my odd app.

Motors getting bigger and I finally made a decision on a cam. When with a fk10.

Ever run a big stroker in a 850 lb bike?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only guy I know building crazy fast BIG horsepower VW bikes is Bud Burkey out of Tenn. That is his Blown type four in the pic's above with all the color and chrome. There are others. He is an old time racer and everything he puts his stink on comes out over the top bitchin and functional!

With your motor location so centered, you must really hook up on launches. I guess wheelie bars are on option with that big of a motor so you don't roll over on your back would be a good idea.

I was hoping more would post this style of trike.

You are in my same boat. We run VW motors, but were not a Bug, Bus, Type whatever, so we play from the outside the box. Generally I find most VW gear heads show acceptance. The diehard, original only or nothing people cant wrap their heads around this stuff.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It will easily pull the front wheel. But not like a rear engine would.
I don't dump the clutch on it. So many homemade pieces on the drive extension that I don't want to break.
No where near turbo or blower level of power.
With the increase is displacement from 2110 to 2387 I am also going fuel injected and distributer less.
I am running big gears compared to the car guys.
Normal 1 and 2
1.26 3rd
.82 fourth
And a 3.44 ring and pinion

All I am told is too much gear for the cam.
I don't think they understand just how fast this thing blows through the gears.

I may wind up putting taller tires on it.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Swing axle.
Upside down and backwards.
Modified quite a bit inside.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This guy in Nova Scotia is building one

http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=139773

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No one else out there in samba land?

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like you have two transaxles grafted together, that must have taken some serious work! Was that to get the engine farther forward?

Did you consider running a Type 4 engine with the exhaust ports that exit down? Might even have been able to retain its cooling fan and shroud.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes a drive extension.
It is an empty case.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the type 1 stroker in a bug prior to the motorcycle.

Somehow I have gotten away with the no fan.
But don't try it in the big city. Ya hafta go for it to cool.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:35 am    Post subject: Where they at? Reply with quote

I thought a few would post up.

Just shows you how many live inside the box.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess not many do this kinda stuff just for a toy. Plenty easier ways to go about getting in the wind.

But anyway.......

My fuelie project.
Hand made intakes and Mikuni throttle bodies from a zx12.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now that is a different front engine trike.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pic from Internet search.
Dunno who it is.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same story.
Still have not met anyone.

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