I’d love to pick your brain about that sometime, mind emailing me your phone number so we can chat about it and I can hear what was good and bad? :) TheJourneyRetold@Gmail.com
Been wanting to do this as well. You can just run chain and sprocket to the factory gearbox I’m sure it’s gonna take some ideas and machining to adapt it but anything is possible. Good luck!
Appreciate that! Not going to lie - pretty dang stoked that you guys commented on one of my videos!!! I definitely hope to meet you guys once it’s done!! 😎😜🤘🏼
Diesel won't hurt the injectors. If anything, it's more lubrication. The fuel pump shouldn't have enough residual that it causes an issue. First prime and crank will get rid of it.
Hey awesome idea…. I have a friend who used a twin turbo hayabusa in a stream liner bonnaville car. The engine was making around 1000 hp. They engineered the whole car from scratch. It’s not an X3 but he may be able to shed light on some good soultions or steer you in the right dissection. They have since broke it and replaced with a toyota engine. Let me know in a reply if you want to talk to him and I’ll put you in touch with him…. Good Luck
That’s awesome! We actually have been to Bonneville and ran a streamliner too! Such a small world! A twin turbo Busa motor must be an absolute MONSTER!!! That awesome!
Awesome concept, I will subscribe. But with that being said, Those Yamaha yxz1000r with paddle shift sound amazing and rev high and your able to turbo and build that engine to make big power. I know this will be a different animal due to the yxz suspension being horrible. But your main things you wanted where a better sounding , high Erving engine with a real paddle shift tranny
Yea I have, I was thinking once you need to make custom axles and then do all the wiring etc, I was thinking it would likely be the same price, and plus I was thinking this would just be a little different :)
That’s exactly what happened, there was diesel in the new fuel pump (I’m guessing for testing and shipping) and that was getting pushed through everything!
@@thejourneyretold not sure which side of the drive is on the Hayabusa but it shouldn't be too bad matching up the x3 secondary to the 4 inch Harley drive sprockets or even a super charger belt drive.. I'm also not sure if the busa clutch is going to enjoy 4wd drag so that 4 inch belt drive on secondary will need to be ratio'd accordingly. It'll be fun testing it at least 😀👍
@@thejourneyretold SCS gearbox looks Strong. Wonder what the loss is and or do they have a variety of dual idler gear sets to choose from.. So much easier 2 WD you sure you wanna be the first 4wd 😁
Yea to me keeping it 4WD is everything because we actually do so much snow wheeling up here. Literally 60% of the riding we do is actually snow - so 4WD is a must! If I can get it to work it’ll be worth it…hopefully there’s enough low end grunt in the Busa motor after a supercharger or turbo. We’ll see tho.
The really cool thing will be the paddles once we prove that the system works I want a paddle shift system like they have on the Radical SR3’s with the auto clipper for downshifts. Would be sweet!
Its like i found this video by synchronicity because i was just thinking of a steertbike engone in the can am or razor since they are already making four cylinder sxs 😎
THAT is a good idea - I wonder how much power that could hold? Only reason I was thinking a blower belt is because it’s a cogged belt, but just a little fatter. But your idea would definitely not suck up near as much power
I found that, but not sure then how to mate that upto the x3 transmission so I can still have reverse, park, and 4WD. I was thinking an SCS gearbox or a belt drive like a Harley or…??
You’ll never not be messing with the chain. I built a r1 rhino and to gear those motors to handle the weight you’ll melt chains. Not saying it’s not fun but your reliability is going way down.
You know, I’ve been riding dirt bikes and motorcycles since I was 4…you’d think I would’ve remembered that! lol sometimes I get nervous on camera and my brain goes out the window lol
Tried this on a Smart Car, hated it and sold it as a project. The thing is lack of low end grunt "tourque" on these engines makes you have to downshift a lot and that killed the enjoyment factor ! Bottom line, it's a cool project to do for the RU-vids and stuff, but won't be enjoyable unfortunately !
I never thought about that part - probably have to ring its neck all the time to keep it up in the power. Did you put a turbo on it or just NA? I was thinking a turbo or a super charger (supercharger would be nice because then the added power is always there instantly vs waiting for it to spool)
@@thejourneyretold if you throw your email, I can email you some photos of the build. Or we can FaceTime and chat a bit. A turbo won’t help in my case as the torque was lacking quite a bit !
I’d love all the info I can get! TheJourneyRetold@Gmail.com What about a supercharger? At least that way there’s no lag…? You do bring up a very valid point about the low end grunt that I never considered… basically I’d have to drive it like it’s a 2 stroke dirt bike and keep it up in the RPM a solid bit…
@@thejourneyretold That's what they are made to do, keep the rpm's up and/or get your gearing ratio right between the engine factory trans. My 600's I always used a 15t front and 60th rear and could still do well over 120. My stock 120hp maverick will do 80 plus so if you can figure out what tooth sprockets to use, that 130cc will pull that thing along just fine. I actually have a bad secondary clutch that I cut the center spline section out of to do this in the future. Id run a 15-17 in the front and make the rear sprocket where it bolts on so you could change it out easily until you figure out what setup you want
The problem is the hayabusa transmission lower the gear ratio , the x3 trans lower it too. So you have to gear it up between the 2... so the drive sprocket need to be at least twice as big as the driven one and it is turning too fast for a chain. I think you should try a very big timing belt but i m not even sure it will last because of the load and rotating speed due to the gearing. If i was you, i know it may sound weird, but i would try pulley with multiple v belt like a lawn tractor
I was thinking a blower belt or a SCS gearbox. I’m just not sure which one I want to try first. I KNOW the SCS gearbox will hold, it’s just heavy and will rob some power, but I know that part will be bulletproof! Lol
@@thejourneyretold i will sound a bit negative but doing a hayabusa swap is not a good idea... you will end up with a sxs that has 3 gear box... it won t be reliable... you should choose another type of engine and put one good sequential gearbox if you really wanna do a swap...
If you run a chain to the output shaft on the stock x3 transmission, you’ll keep 4x4. Just because you’re using the stock cvt transmission doesn’t mean it’s only going to be one gear. The hayabusa has an internal 6 speed transmission which means you’ll have 6 speeds and can still choose to be in low or high and have reverse. A chain is the easy option for the conversion, just keep a spare chain with ya
Also find out what the final drive gear is in high and in low and look up a gear calculator online. Use that and also the gearing from each gear from the hayabusa to figure out your sprocket size. It’ll probably be a small sprocket.
I’ve heard a chain just burns up (cooks the o-rings out) really quick though? I’d rather something a little more long term… How’d you get the sprocket onto the transmission input shaft? I’m assuming the splines don’t line up stock, or what sprocket did you get that did line up with the X3 trans?
Sequential gearbox - and I want to add boost to it right away. 300hp Busa is actually really easy and reliable. BUT the truth is overall it’s just a fun project, it won’t be great at anything, but it will be a lot of fun :)
I know I know and I’ve been riding bikes for over 30 years so idk what I was thinking - I get nervous on camera still and panic so I’m going to chalk it up to that lol
