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Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
A CBR1000RR-Swapped N600 May Be The Perfect Honda
Tiny little city cars are very good, but motorcycles are even better. Of course, each one has its pros and cons, which can only mean one thing: The ideal vehicle is some Hegelian synthesis of the two. Something like this Honda N600, perhaps, which eschews its traditional little two-cylinder for an inline-four out of a Fireblade — and swaps its 45 stock horses for 170 horsepower at 13,000 screaming RPM. The build comes from the mad geniuses over at Cars and Cameras, who have really come into their own as our own little domestic Garage54. Cars and Cameras released part one of the CBR1000RR-powered N600 build, which is nearly 44 minutes of cutting, welding, and making the big four cylinder fit behind the N600's front seats. It's sort of a Renault 5 Turbo layout, which is a far cry from the car's original front-engine, front-wheel-drive design. The first episode covers everything from rolling the N600 into the shop, all the way through to the CBR engine's first start in the new chassis. Any other YouTube channel would take months of slow-drip posts to get to that point, and for that we thank Cars and Cameras. Read more: These Are The Dumbest Looking Cars Of All Time, According To You Despite the increases in displacement and power, the CBR engine is actually lighter than the mill that originally powered the N600 — even with a fuel tank, exhaust manifold, and wiring harness still mounted to the bike engine. All that power with less weight than an already-light stock Honda sounds like a recipe for a car that's an absolute blast to drive. Or a deathtrap. Quite possibly both. The engine isn't really interfacing with the car much in by the end of the video — little things like "pedals" are left as an exercise for later in the build, instead relying on the bike's throttle tube — which raises some questions about how exactly the build crew plans to make that all work. Running a chain to a sprocket at the rear is reasonable enough, but converting a throttle with a return cable to a single pedal seems like a much more intricate job. Seems like we'll all have to stay tuned for the next episode to see how they pull it off. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Can You Build A Go-Kart Using Only Parts Bought At Tractor Supply?
You guys ever watch Cars and Cameras? If you're not familiar, C&C is a YouTube channel wherein a bunch of gearheads with too much time on their hands make smallbore, mad science creations and film them for our amusement. While they specialize in making go-karts and minibikes as stupid fast and dangerous as possible, they do all sorts of things relating to small-displacement motors. One of their latest videos is a great example of their mission. It's a mix of technical know-how, fabricating skill, and good old American, "Pssh, I can do that" confidence. In the video, the boys pose a simple question to you, the faithful fan—Can you build a go-kart out of random parts from Tractor Supply Co.? See, the boys were perusing the TSC website and noticed that the cheapest kart that the company sells—this here 98cc Coleman GK100 single-seater—costs $999 Yankee Dollars. John, C&C's fearless leader, wondered if they could build their own kart out of random parts that TSC sells for less than the Coleman. So, off they went to their local store where they loaded up a shopping cart with random junk, a returned, second-hand pressure washer with a questionable engine, and a short stack of scaffolding that had sat outside for so long that the wooden platforms had started to peel and rot. Then they headed back to the shop and got to building. Were they successful? I mean, maybe? For various metrics of "success", sure. I'm not gonna spoil it for you, but in the first few seconds of the video you see John in the pilot's seat of one of the dumbest, jankiest vehicles I've ever seen breathlessly telling the camera, "This is one of the most dangerous go-karts we've ever built." Go ahead and give it a watch. It's just a hair over 45 minutes, but I guarantee you it'll be the best 45 minutes and change of your day. Read more: What Car Has The Worst Build Quality You've Ever Seen? Along with modifying existing karts and bikes, the C&C boys enjoy the occasional full, ground-up build. Being talented fabricators and knowledgeable mechanics—despite the well-tuned good ol' boy hillbilly engineer demeanors they put on for the camera—they've built some pretty rad machines. They always have a twist, though. A weird idea or an angle that shouldn't work but absolutely does. That's what makes watching them such a treat—they're the living embodiment of the idea that states you have to know the rules inside and out to successfully break them. It's not all fancy maths and fabrication, either. One time, they dragged a clapped-out Honda CB350F out of the woods where it'd been sitting for 40 years with no spark plugs in the engine and got it running. Another time they bought an abandoned hovercraft, put a bigger engine in it, then went hooning around storm surge from Hurricane Debbie. When I tell you that these dudes know how to have fun, I mean it. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
