As someone who's been doing Lemons for 18 years and working on bikes for 30+, have fun with it! If it's the CBR1000 gen i think it is keep a serious eye on the oil level. Counterintuitively longer chains with bigger sprockets hold up better, and a quality o/x-ring chain will serve you well. Also with bike engine cars the clutch is almost always the weak point, so the stiffest springs you can manage. It was awful hearing it skip the chain...
When that engine started? I've been a mechanic for 40 years and I still do the celebration when I get something working that wasn't. That feeling of success never gets old.
Thanks for giving Craig something to feed us with more fantastic content!! 🙌 Why did you put the engine in the passenger seat when there’s so much room behind the passenger compartment? Does it have to do with the transmission configuration?
@JPTulo the transmission is built into the engine as 1 unit. Then it's chain driven from the transmission. It would be cool to see this little car be de sckeched a tad and run again
Jimmy, why would you install your rear wing to lift the race cars rear end around at high speed? Did you flunk basic aero principals... 😂😂😂😂. From a really old ex- pilot
I'm not sure if this happens a lot with bikes, but it happens a lot with older cars. If the soft lines on the brakes get old, they start to rot from the inside and start swelling. This allows the hydraulic pressure of the master cylinder to force fluid into the caliper but doesn't allow it to flow back when the brake is released. Thus, the brake(s) locks up every time you apply them. The only solution then is to replace the soft lines.
This whole channel is about jumping from one unfinished project to the next. Nothing ever gets done. You guys are fun to watch, just start finishing or following up on projects.
Love the channel. I’m a Lanc native and Lemons team captain (#609 / # 856 Cheesebolt Enterprises). We have the dubious distinction of being the team that built a Ford Tempo with twin Bandit 1200 motors arranged inline and transverse in the front, motors sticking a foot out of the hood. Three separate chain runs! Lemony goodness. Would love to see you at a race!
This is just my 2 cents but .... Hear me out. You have a little rocket car with a bike engine that needs lots of love. With the right tag team I think this thing has HUGE potential. I know of a guy, you probably have heard of him, a gentleman by the name of Tony Angelo. He runs a pizza team with a racing problem somewhere in that other side of PA (from me, I'm an hour south of Erie). Tony knows a thing or two about making one of those little go carts with a car complex go around a track. I think this would be a perfect tag team for the two of you to conquer. I mean we are talking Superman vs. Incredible Hulk class crossover billing here. What a way to make an amazing little scoot, get those special guest views for each of your channels, and best of all us die hard fans get to see two PA boys bring that little shop of horrors of a monster back to life. It's a win win for everyone, I can't see a downside. Unless you count the 5 pounds you'll inevitably put on eating the pizza and hoagie (yes I said hoagie) diet Tony has strictly trained his body to survive on. Who else wants to see this epic colab? Like and share!!!
I live in the Appalachian Mountains of PA so I am very familiar w/ a lot of shady crap like this.... My friends and I had a car in the middle of the woods that we would go play w/ for years until someone burned it. It was falling apart on the road so we drove it deep into the woods and just parked it and every weekend we'd go out and play around w/ it and it was one of my favorite things to do on a boring summer day.... It was an almost complete car until other people found it and started stealing parts or smashing stuff but we used to go park our cars, someone would walk back and get the beater then we'd load it w/ all our party supplies then drive it about 10 miles in and have a huge party. It was the best place to have a car because you could drive it back and forth to the parking lot for more supplies or for gas stops but my favorite part was the loop track we made going through the woods... It was probably my favorite spring and summer activity until people ruined it for us then the fire department and the fire marshall found out we was out there so they put up no trespassing signs and they took what was left of the car. Good times in the mountains of PA.... 😂😁👍⛰️🖤
If tony moved back to his hometown area him and craig are about 2 hours apart. I'm from the same area as tony and I'm assuming that craigs near the old srk shop.
My first car was an '86 MK1 MR-2 AW11. It was a pretty cool car for the 80s. Revvy little 4 cylinder right in your ear and balanced perfectly. That one looks a little sad. I did my first parts store parking lot brake job on that car in college.
I once sold a 79 yamaha 1100 to a guy for his dwarf car project. He let me take it for a rip when it was done and it was an absolute unit. They are so much fun and surprisingly cheap these days.
Here's a tool that I've found is very nice for working on disc brakes, it's the Astro Tools 1830 Onyx impact gun. It's a very compact impact gun that can get into some pretty tight spaces. If your fist will fit then this will fit, and it has about 400 FT-LBS of torque in high gear. It doesn't jump out of your hand and even comes in either a 3/8" or 1/2" driver. At about $132.99 for the 3/8" drive one (at least as of June 2024) it's not the cheapest, but dag nabbit if the thing doesn't work nice.
Sooo happy you didn't actually do all the b.s. of checking spark and timing and every single accessory before just turning it over and putting gas in. Instant subscribe, even though I've been watching for ages 😂
I think this was the first video where you started to work on something and I could enjoy seeing you driving around with it at the end of the episode. That was a very nice experience.
He had the silver wing cx500 running in it's first video . Edited to add ; I've seen several videos of him getting relics running and riding on the first video . One had a massive hole in the tank and he strapped another tank on it and rode many miles . The man's a bike whisperer
Brother, You absolutely need to bring this unit to the Freedom Factory and race in the 2.4 hours of LeMullets, this coming Nov 15 & 16, 2024. This is nonnegotiable, you must.
isn't "the 2.4 hours of les mullets" in cleetus' crown vics tho? cleeter should do a lemons type race thing at the freedom factory where you can get a bunch of cool SAFE contraptions whizzing around his track! it would be another epic successful, cheap? racing series for the freedom factory for sure!
Whatever you're going to do with this, it'll need a dual link chain and a support bearing to keep the chain from tearing the output shaft out.... and a chain guard to protect the case. the engine mount does help, but even straightened out proper it's not going to survive downshifts or a dual chain without both reinforcements. that and probably getting some delrin blocks for a chain guide that will outlast the chain a bit. i'd ditch the airbrake out back too.
As a "big guy" (BG - 3XL)... TBH, it gave me the Willy's (and not in the good way) seeing how jammed you are in the car with that motor... but with no quick-disconnect on the wheel. I had a Final-Destination-ish vision of a fuel line that's been in a storage container for 10 years having its last hoo-rah while you're stuck trying to get out from under that wheel
They race a couple car classes powered with bike engines at the local track here on the west coast, (dirt oval),. Friday nights, ( tonight as I post this in fact ),. The cars often look rough for a number of reasons, lol. I'll let others ponder as to why. Just may be my favorite kind of motorsports. Thanks for the reminder - I may fight the traffic and head over there tonight! Another good one here. Cheers. 👍
As someone who has done a few motorcycle engine swaps into buggies etc always seems like the chain and shift linkages were always a nightmare but once they work its damn fun. Great work :)
The guys at Faster With Cotten & Newbern (w/o Finnegan ☹️) had the same problem with a Honda S600 car (ca. 1970, pre-Civic) with a big honkin' bike motor in back. A nightmare with the chain drive and shifter. The rear axle and engine should be mounted on a swingarm, so the chain length never changes. And an air shifter for the trans. And an "open" diff, for no bind in corners.
Lemons is the thing. We love doing it. I was literally just telling a friend about this car specifically. You have a hold of a Le. Ons legend. Get it ready in time for the Corvette museum in Sept and we'll see you there.
A race car with a CBR1000 engine in it, I love it!! That thing is awesome. I do think you should do something about the engine mounts, the engine is totally moving when you are driving it
There are little to no issues with this car--it's one of the fastest and most reliable machines we've seen in the series (granted I just run the TH-cam account and haven't actually seen it in person)
I'm a lazy perfectionist. when I see something like this I think, so much potential and room for improvement but I also think, damn that's a lot of work. Craig I seriously hope you squeeze every last drop of perfection out of that thing. I'm hoping next video covers every nook and cranny of that monstrous V-hickle, but also, be safe and don't over work yourself.
Come onnn, this is by far my favorite project on any channel we the people need to see this baby ripppping!!! Smoking tires and doing cool motorcycle-car things... Craig to further your channel i can assure you this project will definitely get you the most views...
I WANNA SEE MORE DARN IT!! I think you have a completely new segment to your videos. First, get the trails Honda CX up and running. Next, the American Choppers bike running or ship it off, and just say; that's best left for the professionals who built or know the turbo setup. Then get back on this Honda Car. Great great project and you'll make it work like it should have all along.
Craig your content is incredible...would you do a video with a little backstory on your mechanical history? If youre comfortable sharing of course. You mentioned growing up around race cars and you run an amazing shop, i would love to more about your story.
That's a quite interesting project. I think if you split the chain drive with an intermediate sprocket it would lessen the swing on the chain. I'm also wondering if the diff itself isn't too heavy for the chain, given that it is a car's one.
I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS CAR, CRAIG. Omg, absolutely perfect build; there's not a thing about it that I don't love. I would do bad things to have the opportunity to drive this pile of junk. PLEASE get this thing running how it was meant to. I would LOVE to see more content with it!
I have an actual motorcycle I could use a lot of help with. So much fun to be had. Wiring issues, maybe engine issues, and some body issues. If you would like to work on an expensive, nonrunning MOTORCYCLE I got you bro.
A dream car, this had a 1.6 Toy twin cam 16 alum engine and a butter soft 5sp in it, in front of it were two comfortable seats. All this for improvising with a chain driven locked rear? There has to be a better way. The Honda is lighter, may seem as making hp but at much higher rpm, so really the same acceleration +/- some teeth of gearing which is also much easier to change from track to track.
The chain issue should be fixable with a slipper clutch. Those old MR2's are sweet handling cars... providing everything's still square and plumb with the chassis.
The rubber line usually needs to be changed they will swell and allow fluid into the calipers but will not allow the fluid pressure to release. But maybe the wd 40 and screwdriver cleaning will fix all that?
Turn the engine side ways and line it up with the rear-end then make a little driveshaft for it. So you can do away with them popping chains and stiff links . You can use like a Yamaha Virago driveshaft or something like that. 👍 I love your channel keep up the great work and God Bless.
You know the engine and trans on most bikes (except Harleys) are a single unit, right? If you were to bypass the gearbox and hook the clutch straight to a driveshaft, you'd only have direct drive, no gears.
If the engine was mounted sideways, you could run a driveshaft off the diff that goes through a steady bearing and has a sprocket on the end. Then run a chain between the sprocket on the drive shaft and the engine output.
As a gun guy, not a mechanic, wouldn't Windex and silicone oil be better than PB for brake cleaning? Neutralize the corrosive Russian surplus brake primers and lay down a protective coating. Mini drift car potential is high
fun fact they were gonna use a motorcycle-engine-swapped buggy on Mad Max Fury Road.. but the darn thing was just so powerful and the wheel-base wasnt wide enough it was a death trap/roll-over machine. When i read the title i got super hyped tbh.. be careful in that thing man you wouldnt be the first guy to scoff at a motorcycle engine swapped car but those motors put down power man.
hey Craig long time fan you and Sean are a big reason i got into riding ive been starting on a 2008 suzuki s50 boulevard very good bike but i’m buying a 2007 HD electra glide and it needs a few things before it’s road ready i have no tools and no idea what i’m doing i live in Indiana and i figured i would shoot my shot and see if you could help me get it going again it’s been sitting for 3 years and i don’t really trust anybody besides you when it comes to repairing bikes so if you have any interest i would absolutely love and appreciate your help/expertise and you’re more than welcome to use it for content. either way much live and God Bless you and your family! Praise the Lord for all your success
Craig and Dan...absolute duo of complete entertainment! Cooking show, Lego assembly, gardening, surgery, you two could make it all awesome and entertainment! Go Craig and Dan (Greg has a lot of work ahead of him), keep moving forward!
Wow. A bike engined Mk1 MR2 reaks of cool. Cut the windshield down, (or get a new or salvaged glass windshield). Strengthen the welded steel frame (or build a chassis from scratch) use as much of the body panels as you can, but not the rear wing. Add lightness. Make it safe. You'd end up with quite a quick lil car.
I really need Craig to get a Discovery Channel show with Dan at the camera. Also please take this on and make it less sketchy with the goal of getting in a race.
So, a man goes into his shed, sees the street signs he stole and the bike he crashed, had some beer and gave birth to that. Good man.
i just have missed the mr2 part
That wit it's all aboot
Cursed man imo.
@@EALordBaalbe afraid
😂😂No wonder he was so sentimental about it
Dan... Camera man, editor, umbrella holder, Ai robot. What a versatile dude
and a well cooked lobster
Dan da man
Everybody needs a Dan
You forgot spider expert
The adjustable spoiler really sells it.
As (very) seasoned Lemons team captain may I welcome you to the madness. Hope you take it to a race.
Just make sure it can pass current tech...a lot has changed in 5-10 years.
@@michaelkrenzer3296 this, absolutely.
Can confirm, Mike is well seasoned.
Pretty sure I saw this car in person at HPR. Seem to recall duct tape used as axle boots. (Worked exactly as well as you would expect)
As someone who's been doing Lemons for 18 years and working on bikes for 30+, have fun with it! If it's the CBR1000 gen i think it is keep a serious eye on the oil level. Counterintuitively longer chains with bigger sprockets hold up better, and a quality o/x-ring chain will serve you well. Also with bike engine cars the clutch is almost always the weak point, so the stiffest springs you can manage. It was awful hearing it skip the chain...
When that engine started? I've been a mechanic for 40 years and I still do the celebration when I get something working that wasn't. That feeling of success never gets old.
Don’t let your life insurance provider know you’re within 10ft of this thing lol
I miss that car so much! Everyone stalls it at first! Hahahaha
Thanks for giving Craig something to feed us with more fantastic content!! 🙌 Why did you put the engine in the passenger seat when there’s so much room behind the passenger compartment? Does it have to do with the transmission configuration?
Kinda easy to stall it when the front calipers are locked up
@JPTulo the transmission is built into the engine as 1 unit. Then it's chain driven from the transmission. It would be cool to see this little car be de sckeched a tad and run again
Jimmy, why would you install your rear wing to lift the race cars rear end around at high speed? Did you flunk basic aero principals... 😂😂😂😂. From a really old ex- pilot
@@bbrut3332Looks better with the smooth side up, it’s not like that’s actually a proper airfoil anyways.
I'm not sure if this happens a lot with bikes, but it happens a lot with older cars. If the soft lines on the brakes get old, they start to rot from the inside and start swelling. This allows the hydraulic pressure of the master cylinder to force fluid into the caliper but doesn't allow it to flow back when the brake is released. Thus, the brake(s) locks up every time you apply them. The only solution then is to replace the soft lines.
PB blaster on the BRAKES????? Every one knows to use WD40. Rookies.......
Brake lube
Burns off faster. Don’t really see the problem.
ROOKIE IS A COMPLIMENT!
True Pros use tri-flow😂😂😂😂
PB Blaster is better. And even better is graphite lube. But PB Blaster is better than wd40 lol
This whole channel is about jumping from one unfinished project to the next. Nothing ever gets done. You guys are fun to watch, just start finishing or following up on projects.
Not sure how many of these bikes are his to finish.
Your first sentence. This channel is about getting things running. Everything else is bonus content.
reminds me of myself a bit. I'm like a dog chasing a rabbit, then getting distracted by a squirrel, then chasing a totally different thing altogether.
Love the channel. I’m a Lanc native and Lemons team captain (#609 / # 856 Cheesebolt Enterprises). We have the dubious distinction of being the team that built a Ford Tempo with twin Bandit 1200 motors arranged inline and transverse in the front, motors sticking a foot out of the hood. Three separate chain runs! Lemony goodness. Would love to see you at a race!
This is just my 2 cents but .... Hear me out. You have a little rocket car with a bike engine that needs lots of love. With the right tag team I think this thing has HUGE potential. I know of a guy, you probably have heard of him, a gentleman by the name of Tony Angelo. He runs a pizza team with a racing problem somewhere in that other side of PA (from me, I'm an hour south of Erie). Tony knows a thing or two about making one of those little go carts with a car complex go around a track. I think this would be a perfect tag team for the two of you to conquer. I mean we are talking Superman vs. Incredible Hulk class crossover billing here. What a way to make an amazing little scoot, get those special guest views for each of your channels, and best of all us die hard fans get to see two PA boys bring that little shop of horrors of a monster back to life. It's a win win for everyone, I can't see a downside. Unless you count the 5 pounds you'll inevitably put on eating the pizza and hoagie (yes I said hoagie) diet Tony has strictly trained his body to survive on. Who else wants to see this epic colab? Like and share!!!
Heard that Tony had to sell the shop
hell yeah I wanna see that
I live in the Appalachian Mountains of PA so I am very familiar w/ a lot of shady crap like this.... My friends and I had a car in the middle of the woods that we would go play w/ for years until someone burned it. It was falling apart on the road so we drove it deep into the woods and just parked it and every weekend we'd go out and play around w/ it and it was one of my favorite things to do on a boring summer day.... It was an almost complete car until other people found it and started stealing parts or smashing stuff but we used to go park our cars, someone would walk back and get the beater then we'd load it w/ all our party supplies then drive it about 10 miles in and have a huge party. It was the best place to have a car because you could drive it back and forth to the parking lot for more supplies or for gas stops but my favorite part was the loop track we made going through the woods... It was probably my favorite spring and summer activity until people ruined it for us then the fire department and the fire marshall found out we was out there so they put up no trespassing signs and they took what was left of the car. Good times in the mountains of PA.... 😂😁👍⛰️🖤
If tony moved back to his hometown area him and craig are about 2 hours apart. I'm from the same area as tony and I'm assuming that craigs near the old srk shop.
Id watch that. Tonys pretty talented
The sound of that engine alone is worth the price of admission.
My first car was an '86 MK1 MR-2 AW11. It was a pretty cool car for the 80s. Revvy little 4 cylinder right in your ear and balanced perfectly. That one looks a little sad. I did my first parts store parking lot brake job on that car in college.
I once sold a 79 yamaha 1100 to a guy for his dwarf car project. He let me take it for a rip when it was done and it was an absolute unit. They are so much fun and surprisingly cheap these days.
Here's a tool that I've found is very nice for working on disc brakes, it's the Astro Tools 1830 Onyx impact gun. It's a very compact impact gun that can get into some pretty tight spaces. If your fist will fit then this will fit, and it has about 400 FT-LBS of torque in high gear. It doesn't jump out of your hand and even comes in either a 3/8" or 1/2" driver. At about $132.99 for the 3/8" drive one (at least as of June 2024) it's not the cheapest, but dag nabbit if the thing doesn't work nice.
I think that chain needs a jackshaft in the middle to separate it into two smaller sections to help with the flop.
That's a good idea. Getting the engine mounted better will help too
@@The_Bearded_Mechanic What was the deal with the skateboard wheel? Was it being used as a chain tensioner or something?
dual belt drive.
@@cjhickspe1399sounds like an idler since it would whip around under throttle lift. Massively sketchy, I love it
@@mwyatt222Absolutely if dual chains sprocket can fit on the transmission drive shaft.
Sooo happy you didn't actually do all the b.s. of checking spark and timing and every single accessory before just turning it over and putting gas in. Instant subscribe, even though I've been watching for ages 😂
If you overdo the PB Blaster on the braking surfaces use gasoline to clean, ol skool style
I think this was the first video where you started to work on something and I could enjoy seeing you driving around with it at the end of the episode. That was a very nice experience.
He had the silver wing cx500 running in it's first video .
Edited to add ; I've seen several videos of him getting relics running and riding on the first video .
One had a massive hole in the tank and he strapped another tank on it and rode many miles .
The man's a bike whisperer
“Vice grip style” love the verbal collab
Derek's influence is omnipresent.
Brother, You absolutely need to bring this unit to the Freedom Factory and race in the 2.4 hours of LeMullets, this coming Nov 15 & 16, 2024. This is nonnegotiable, you must.
isn't "the 2.4 hours of les mullets" in cleetus' crown vics tho? cleeter should do a lemons type race thing at the freedom factory where you can get a bunch of cool SAFE contraptions whizzing around his track! it would be another epic successful, cheap? racing series for the freedom factory for sure!
This definitely needs a part 2 like to see this thing fly!!!
Whatever you're going to do with this, it'll need a dual link chain and a support bearing to keep the chain from tearing the output shaft out.... and a chain guard to protect the case. the engine mount does help, but even straightened out proper it's not going to survive downshifts or a dual chain without both reinforcements. that and probably getting some delrin blocks for a chain guide that will outlast the chain a bit.
i'd ditch the airbrake out back too.
As a "big guy" (BG - 3XL)... TBH, it gave me the Willy's (and not in the good way) seeing how jammed you are in the car with that motor... but with no quick-disconnect on the wheel.
I had a Final-Destination-ish vision of a fuel line that's been in a storage container for 10 years having its last hoo-rah while you're stuck trying to get out from under that wheel
Dan knew which one was the brake, congratulations 😅
I love this kind of work Craig, keep it up man
They race a couple car classes powered with bike engines at the local track here on the west coast, (dirt oval),. Friday nights, ( tonight as I post this in fact ),. The cars often look rough for a number of reasons, lol. I'll let others ponder as to why. Just may be my favorite kind of motorsports. Thanks for the reminder - I may fight the traffic and head over there tonight! Another good one here. Cheers. 👍
Are Legends cars one of them? Or mini sprints? Or Bandoleros?
Best channel on TH-cam. So happy you're gaining steam. The only channel with sponsor bits worth watching.
Wow,whoever build that sure took pride in their work and had a high fabrication skill level.
As someone who has done a few motorcycle engine swaps into buggies etc always seems like the chain and shift linkages were always a nightmare but once they work its damn fun.
Great work :)
The guys at Faster With Cotten & Newbern (w/o Finnegan ☹️) had the same problem with a Honda S600 car (ca. 1970, pre-Civic) with a big honkin' bike motor in back. A nightmare with the chain drive and shifter. The rear axle and engine should be mounted on a swingarm, so the chain length never changes. And an air shifter for the trans. And an "open" diff, for no bind in corners.
Lemons is the thing. We love doing it. I was literally just telling a friend about this car specifically. You have a hold of a Le. Ons legend. Get it ready in time for the Corvette museum in Sept and we'll see you there.
A race car with a CBR1000 engine in it, I love it!! That thing is awesome.
I do think you should do something about the engine mounts, the engine is totally moving when you are driving it
The world needs a The Bearded Mechanic and Vice Grip Garage collaboration video.
A Definite yes!
When Junk Worlds Collide!
Derek would not get one word in😂
Toss in Grind Hard Plumbing Co.
It's a Honda. A stripped down, Frankenstein's monster, but it's a Honda. Of course it'll get running.
There are little to no issues with this car--it's one of the fastest and most reliable machines we've seen in the series (granted I just run the TH-cam account and haven't actually seen it in person)
What a beautiful motorcycle with the world's most beautiful mechanic. I mean Bearded Mechanic.
Freudian slip. We know what you REALLY meant 💕💕💕😂
I'm a lazy perfectionist. when I see something like this I think, so much potential and room for improvement but I also think, damn that's a lot of work. Craig I seriously hope you squeeze every last drop of perfection out of that thing. I'm hoping next video covers every nook and cranny of that monstrous V-hickle, but also, be safe and don't over work yourself.
Come onnn, this is by far my favorite project on any channel we the people need to see this baby ripppping!!! Smoking tires and doing cool motorcycle-car things... Craig to further your channel i can assure you this project will definitely get you the most views...
First thing I would do is put detachable steering wheel
I WANNA SEE MORE DARN IT!! I think you have a completely new segment to your videos. First, get the trails Honda CX up and running. Next, the American Choppers bike running or ship it off, and just say; that's best left for the professionals who built or know the turbo setup. Then get back on this Honda Car. Great great project and you'll make it work like it should have all along.
Honda/TOYOTA car! The best of both worlds.
Digging the Toyonda. I don't even hate the Gulf colors. it is a shame the CBR didn't come with a kick starter, tho.
Craig your content is incredible...would you do a video with a little backstory on your mechanical history? If youre comfortable sharing of course. You mentioned growing up around race cars and you run an amazing shop, i would love to more about your story.
Me too.
ATTENTION EVERYONE: IT HAS BEEN MADE *VERY, VERY* CLEAR THAT PB BLASTER SHOULD *NOT* BE USED ON OR ANYWHERE NEAR BRAKES.
Very true, gt-85 is clearly the superior choice.
I may still be a little fuzzy on that...
Yes I agree, only use WD40 😂
Your brakes your choice.
So what you’re saying is that I should put PB Blaster on my brakes? Heading to the garage now…
Awesome! I'd love to be a part of that Frankenstein-car-bike-thingy. Frankenstein are right up my alley. Have fun, Boys!
That's a quite interesting project. I think if you split the chain drive with an intermediate sprocket it would lessen the swing on the chain. I'm also wondering if the diff itself isn't too heavy for the chain, given that it is a car's one.
Put GoPro on the rear so you can see the chain 😊
Lots of content to be created on this thing. Cant wait for future videos of this thing!!!
Can't belive it, but i guess i got to, Im lookin right at it! Perfect
I don't know if u are comedian or mechanic cuz ur commercial is so creative lol 😂😂
Gonna go straight out to my car and spray my breaks!!!
Thank you for the tip!
This is so cool! cant wait to see it what you do with it.
This was an awesome episode. Dan was a robot and finally helped by holding the umbrella.
I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS CAR, CRAIG. Omg, absolutely perfect build; there's not a thing about it that I don't love. I would do bad things to have the opportunity to drive this pile of junk. PLEASE get this thing running how it was meant to. I would LOVE to see more content with it!
I have an actual motorcycle I could use a lot of help with. So much fun to be had. Wiring issues, maybe engine issues, and some body issues. If you would like to work on an expensive, nonrunning MOTORCYCLE I got you bro.
YOU ARE AMAZING that PB blaster works great on breaks
Absolutely awesome!!! DO you still work on motorcycles and ATV's at your shop? DO you still have a shop?
Love it! Collab with Jimmy FTW!!!! Polk County represent!
This is what we want more of, haven't watched yet but looking forward to seeing this mr2, I like these cars, with a motorbike engine will be awesome.
So glad to see you're doing different stuff I enjoyed it from the history to all the cool Parts you get to the Future builds that I know are coming
That Gulf Porsche livery always looks good on just about every car. Beautiful.
A dream car, this had a 1.6 Toy twin cam 16 alum engine and a butter soft 5sp in it, in front of it were two comfortable seats. All this for improvising with a chain driven locked rear? There has to be a better way. The Honda is lighter, may seem as making hp but at much higher rpm, so really the same acceleration +/- some teeth of gearing which is also much easier to change from track to track.
Its come to a point with this channel where its not 'can he get it running' but 'will he finish it....'
Looks like a great test vehicle for the turbo Busa motor you have when you get it back together just to make sure it's working properly
I used to have an 85 Mr2, Loved it
Id watch you fix everything from a lawn mower to an airplane. keep it up craig love it!
VIce Grip style huh? Nice shout out, Derek is a great dude!
And so we get a new project to go with all the other projects in the shop. A man after my own heart.
Just send jimmy a airplane with a motorcycle engine in it.😮😮
He would fly it, no question.
A rotary one, from a Suzuki
Jokes on you there’s trikes that use something like that
Jimmy bought several airplanes with your basic snowmobile/jet ski engines in Texas last year.
Rotax? Are in planes, side by side and snow scooters.
I sincerely love this content. Thank you.
the one thing I can say Craig ,is While my Dad was teaching me he said anybody can work on a new car but it takes a Mechanic to work on a wreck.
Looks like a fun project!
The chain issue should be fixable with a slipper clutch. Those old MR2's are sweet handling cars... providing everything's still square and plumb with the chassis.
The rubber line usually needs to be changed they will swell and allow fluid into the calipers but will not allow the fluid pressure to release. But maybe the wd 40 and screwdriver cleaning will fix all that?
One of the best ad spaces I've seen!😂
Very cool race car. Love the looks of the MR2 👍
Dang it, Jimmy! Now I feel like I need to build one of these.
I like how much you get dan involved in the work!
Thanks Dan, my GSXR has brake noise, and I'm going to try your trick and spray WD on them.
That ad read though 😂
Pro tip, instead of using PB Blaster on or near the brakes, fill the brake fluid reservoir with it.
Turn the engine side ways and line it up with the rear-end then make a little driveshaft for it. So you can do away with them popping chains and stiff links . You can use like a Yamaha Virago driveshaft or something like that. 👍 I love your channel keep up the great work and God Bless.
You know the engine and trans on most bikes (except Harleys) are a single unit, right? If you were to bypass the gearbox and hook the clutch straight to a driveshaft, you'd only have direct drive, no gears.
If the engine was mounted sideways, you could run a driveshaft off the diff that goes through a steady bearing and has a sprocket on the end. Then run a chain between the sprocket on the drive shaft and the engine output.
I saw a Hayabusa-powered Trabant once in my life. It was also converted from FWD to RWD. It ran like hell 😊
As a gun guy, not a mechanic, wouldn't Windex and silicone oil be better than PB for brake cleaning? Neutralize the corrosive Russian surplus brake primers and lay down a protective coating.
Mini drift car potential is high
fun fact they were gonna use a motorcycle-engine-swapped buggy on Mad Max Fury Road.. but the darn thing was just so powerful and the wheel-base wasnt wide enough it was a death trap/roll-over machine. When i read the title i got super hyped tbh.. be careful in that thing man you wouldnt be the first guy to scoff at a motorcycle engine swapped car but those motors put down power man.
hey Craig long time fan you and Sean are a big reason i got into riding ive been starting on a 2008 suzuki s50 boulevard very good bike but i’m buying a 2007 HD electra glide and it needs a few things before it’s road ready i have no tools and no idea what i’m doing i live in Indiana and i figured i would shoot my shot and see if you could help me get it going again it’s been sitting for 3 years and i don’t really trust anybody besides you when it comes to repairing bikes so if you have any interest i would absolutely love and appreciate your help/expertise and you’re more than welcome to use it for content. either way much live and God Bless you and your family! Praise the Lord for all your success
From a distance you look at it and looks cool. Then you get close and show all the parts then you like omg, it could be awesome.
Great vid! I'm currently in the middle of doing this with a 1984 Pontiac Fiero!
Omg Craig PLEASE do a LeMons race ASAP.
LeMons and bearded mechanic; two great tastes that taste great together!
You got yourself one hell of a cameraman.
Better shifter idea... motion raceworks hell yeah brother parachute lever. Will mount up well and comfy for that shifter. 😊
So ONLY use PB Blaster on brakes. Got it! 👍😆
I can't wait for more videos on this, super exciting
Craig and Dan...absolute duo of complete entertainment! Cooking show, Lego assembly, gardening, surgery, you two could make it all awesome and entertainment! Go Craig and Dan (Greg has a lot of work ahead of him), keep moving forward!
look forward to seeing this built back up
That thing is awesome. You have to fix that bad lad. Mount the motor properly and and that thing will be a rocket
I had a cbr1000rr years ago and the sound of this video had my heart rate rising.
Wow. A bike engined Mk1 MR2 reaks of cool. Cut the windshield down, (or get a new or salvaged glass windshield). Strengthen the welded steel frame (or build a chassis from scratch) use as much of the body panels as you can, but not the rear wing. Add lightness. Make it safe.
You'd end up with quite a quick lil car.
Remember, LeMons is meant for REAL cars with a VIN #, built to a (soft, barely enforced) budget, I think it's around $1000, plus safety equipment.
I really need Craig to get a Discovery Channel show with Dan at the camera.
Also please take this on and make it less sketchy with the goal of getting in a race.