Essentials.....

[Pikey Hagar]

Greetings ladies, gentleman, eejits, rogues, reprobates and anyone else I've left out.

Well, having got shot of my Suzuki VX800 after an incident or two involving my left leg, I thought I'd get meself a trike. Didn't fancy a conversion nor an off the shelf one. So I've managed to get hold of a 300TDi engine & 4 speed autobox....a troike has to start somewhere!!

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[Deep Diver]

Nice wooden frame you've made for it.

[Pikey Hagar]

Bugger.....you've seen my blueprint!

Pikeys Trike.jpg

[ratwing]

I'm curious, what's your plan for connecting the gearbox to the diff?

[King Herald]

Should make an interesting project. My turbo diesel Mondeo car gives 50mpg, and has so much low down torque I don't even need to use the throttle to pull away, just lift the clutch and away she goes, change into second, and third, it'll still pull along happily, with no throttle. I always thought it would be a good trike motor.

[Pikey Hagar]

It's early day's yet with the whole project but have an idea on what I want so rear end and final drive is yet to be decided. I'm going with something short, not too wide and stocky. So potentially a short shaft between box and diff....

The motor and box is a Land Rover 300TDi coupled to a ZF 4 speed auto. Two and half litre of turbo intercooled grunt, straight thru upright exhaust......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3BFnSTwJk

[ratwing]

If you really want short, the output shaft, propshaft flange and tail cone casting from a Jaguar XJ40 will fit that gearbox. It's a lot of work though.

[Pikey Hagar]

If you really want short, the output shaft, propshaft flange and tail cone casting from a Jaguar XJ40 will fit that gearbox. It's a lot of work though.

Nice one. Will run that through the bods that will be doing the build

[Deep Diver]

Pikeys built is going well.

https://youtu.be/TS9MFpIyMkk?si=FLw-lTM-Dxx4oh3n

[Pikey Hagar]