twin engine law

[Scrotty]

apparently your only allowed to have one transmission on a road legal car in the uk? soo like say a redtop either end on a F20 isnt allowed??? is this true or bullcrap

[jon_pure_british]

dunno, but ive heard of 2x r1 engines in road cars, cant remember where though, may just be a rumour?

[Scrotty]

didnt that lotus seven style car have one, production not kit, tiger thingy on top gear
actaly that had 2 boxs with 2 levers used at same time...must be legal then!

[dazleeds]

there used to be a twin engined vr6 floating around

cant see that running on 1 gbox

[JohnnyThunders]

i remembered in the early 80s i saw a twin engined Scirocco that was road legal (belonged to Kim mather sponsored by United footwear if anyone remembers it), it used 2 vw engines and was pretty competitive at the time, think it was 4wd too, anyway couldnt find any pics or info on it but i did find these facts -

There's plenty of twin engined VWs that been built and are fully legal, how would the Prius stand if the above statement were true?

Dubsport under the leadership of Ian Birch restarted the twin enginled car thing near 10 years ago, they use cable change gearboxes to make life easier

A little video

media.putfile.com/Brutal--Drag--Race-----VW--VR6--Bi-Turbo--vs--VW--Golf--I

[tim-ix]

Yeah, I've seen Ian Birch's twin VR6 Mk2 Golf Rallye and his twin nitroused 16v Mk1 Golf at GTI International. Both were road legal and both had two gearboxes.

There was a piccy of a twin engined Corsa mid-build in PPC not long ago and Z-Cars have done some twin bike-engined cars. I've seen a Dax Rush as well as an old Mini. I think the Dax was 4WD and briefly held an acceleration record IIRC.

VOSA should have the answers to this sort of thing.

[benjy]

Tiger make the Z100, twin zzr1200 bike engines, 4wd and 0-60, 2.6s........as thrashed by VBH. Do a yourube search, theres a vid of it.........proper rapid and only 35k!!

[J_Mac]

i've lately been thinking of something like this, something small like a mini with 2 900cc bike engines, just a past time project, not bothered about the legal shit

[gra325i]

my mate used to have a twin engined mk1 golf and he had to disconnect one of the drive shafts for legal road use
that was about 4 years back tho

[OBs]

Sod all the twin engine talk.... 'J MAC' That bird in your sig pic has a fine set of twin air bags on her

Christ, sweet mother there 'uge!

[OBs]

VBH Tw@ted a road legal twin engined Nova down the pod strip... Few years back for one of Clarksons vids

Built by Courtney

Andy

[Scrotty]

my brother started a mk1 astra gte build few years back, twin redtops with 160bhp (remap) at the flywheel on both
he got the lumps mounted in and strethened, running but not linked up then sold it along with his cavalier mk2 sri 130
fool

[miniblob]

You can have two transmissions in a road legal car!!!!!!!

The Z-cars twin engine cars are road legal!!!!! Still considering the conversion for my mini!!!! 380bhp rwd tin can!!!
Been round a track ni one and it's mental!!!!!!

J-mac - z-cars sell kit's to convert a mini to take a bike engine in the back!!

Not cheap by any means - but this is extreme fun!!!!!!!

http://www.zcars.org.uk/

[gra325i]

Sod all the twin engine talk.... 'J MAC' That bird in your sig pic has a fine set of twin air bags on her

Christ, sweet mother there 'uge!

i was gonna say that too but wasnt sure how j-mac would take it, some guys are real touchy bout that sorta thing

[oze30]

What about 4wds? They have 2 transmissions, unless they call a transfer case non geared therefore not a transmission.

[J_Mac]

Wasn't gonna go for the expensive route, well not that expensive, but a mini, strip it down completely 1 900cc in the front and 1 in the back mission lol, only thing would be the gearing but where theres a will theres a way, would only be a past time hobbie thing, not even sure about a mini could be any frame like a buggy. All just ideas at the mo

As for the bird.... Next Door Nikki in your internet search.... for all to enjoy