What started as a project car build for the 24 Hours of LeMons series, the 360 Deluxe, (which came factory with a rear-mounted engine, rear-wheel drive and even rear-hinged doors) was unfortunately outlawed mid-build due to a rule change for the minimum wheelbase allowed in the series, but instead of abandoning the old ‘Bug, Brian and co. and his friends are making out of this ’69 Subaru 360 Deluxe – also known as a Subaru ‘Ladybug’ in Japan. With our next submission, the saying ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ comes to mind. Hang on… since when has ‘studying’ ever been this much fun? Despite these seemingly low power and torque numbers, the University team’s 2014 car weighs in at a tiddly 398lbs (that’s only 180kgs!), it can accelerate to 60mph from a standstill in 2.8 seconds and can sustain up to 1.5gs when cornering. As you can see in the full side profile image above, there’s something very cool and menacing about the low, aggressive, purely functional design of the Auburn team’s creations.īoth cars feature a hybrid carbon fiber monocoque front chassis with a 4130 chromoly steel rear space-frame, and make power courtesy of modified 2008 Yamaha R6 motorcycle engines producing 85hp and 42ft-lbs of torque (due to the mandated 20mm intake restrictions). Joseph is part of the Auburn University Formula SAE racing team, who so far have designed and created two bike-engined builds the car above being their 2013 entry and the car below being from last year. However, the first bike-powered FSAE submission that stood out to us was from Alabama resident Joseph Stitt. This month we received a huge volume of email submissions containing Formula SAE cars (Formula-style race cars built for an engineering design competition for students), and it was certainly tricky to narrow these down, as they were all impressive. So, in no particular order, let’s take a closer look… Thank you to all those readers who sent in their submissions and made this article possible! We’ve got Subarus, Datsuns, Fiats, Formula SAE cars, a plethora of Minis and, well, a few other oddities, as you’ll soon find out. Building a bike-powered car generally isn’t an easy task it takes ingenuity, creativity and thinking outside the box, and you’re about to see a whole lot of that in this story featuring a selection of bike-engined cars owned by some of our readers.
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