Help! We need an engine

**Tints** · 26th October 2006, 14:10

I'm from the university of Auckland FSAE team and we have toasted one of our engines (scored bore)

We need to find another 03 to 05 Yamaha R6 engine very soon as we head to Australia to compete in Melbourne in mid December.
Does anyone know were an unused engine might be or where to find a wrecked bike etc. all we need are the two half casings, all of the other bits are fine (minus a piston).
The closest engine that we know of is in Australia and very expensive.

Any help would be great
Tints

**The_Dover** · 26th October 2006, 14:12

what the fuck is the FSAE?

**JeremyW** · 26th October 2006, 14:15

Formula SAE. Its a university competition which gets uni students to design and build an open wheel race car from scratch and compete against other unis.

Bout 300 unis worldwide competiting in 7 different competitions.

For more infor check out www.fsae.co.nz

**McJim** · 26th October 2006, 14:23

SAE is a TLA for Self Adressed Envelope where I come from. Mind you ETA is an ultra violent Terrorist organisation where I come from so go figure.

I don't have an R6 engine but at least I'm keeping the thread alive until someone who has one shows up!

**k14** · 26th October 2006, 14:40

Gutted mate, that sucks. What actually happened? Dropped a valve?

Wish I could be of some help but I don't think I can. Are there any overbore kits for the R6 or is the classes limited to 600cc max?

Was looking on the site the other day and thats some very sexy pre preg cf work.

**mops** · 26th October 2006, 14:50

yeach, heard of that before....

last year there was a dude who run megasquirt on a briggs and stratton v twin engine... but unsure or what HP they made... i mean, damn after all I head about aroun 125hp r6 engine...

**Tints** · 26th October 2006, 14:55

the piston picked up on the bore, which sucks
and we are limited to 610cc max, i don't think you can bore the engine out, it has a ceramic coating on the bore.
we are fairly short on options when it comes to fixing the engine.

**Motu** · 26th October 2006, 15:31

Why didn't you choose an engine that's common on the ground.I thought KISS would be the baseline - oh,you are trainee engineers,make it as complicated as you can to show how smart we are.

**JeremyW** · 26th October 2006, 15:38

Originally Posted by Motu

Why didn't you choose an engine that's common on the ground.I thought KISS would be the baseline - oh,you are trainee engineers,make it as complicated as you can to show how smart we are.

thhhhhhhrrrrrrrrwwwwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrtttttttt. Do not!

The R6 is a great powerplant for what we need and Yamaha NZ have offered us quite a bit of support in the way of sponsorship and advice over the last few years....

....Just a shame they cannot get us an engine....

**Tints** · 26th October 2006, 18:14

Originally Posted by Motu

Why didn't you choose an engine that's common on the ground.I thought KISS would be the baseline - oh,you are trainee engineers,make it as complicated as you can to show how smart we are.

1: in Nz there are no compact, powerful 600cc engines that are common that we can use

2: we are sponsored by Yamaha and they have been very good to us.

3:we have thrashed R6 engines for 3 years and had very little problems, even with supercharging them.

4: we want to win and beat the aussies, you won't do that with a briggs and straten engine

5: if you look at pictures of our 2004 car you will see that it is very simple and the following cars have been evolutions of that car. (www.fsae.co.nz)

we are not here to show how smart we are, we are doing this to make ourselves into the best professional engineers that we can be. (and to have some fun and build race cars!)

**Motu** · 26th October 2006, 18:51

So you make your bed and lie in it.If you can't find an engine you are going nowhere....the choice doesn't look so good from that angle....

**Tints** · 26th October 2006, 20:19

we will get there, if we have to beg or borrow we will get there, we are fairly good at getting out of tight spaces.

i just put this thread up to see if there was any good guys out there that could help us after all of the long hours we have put in at uni on the car over the last 18 months.

we will get there, and thrash the aussies in december in melbourne.

**Mr. Peanut** · 26th October 2006, 20:21

Originally Posted by JeremyW

Formula SAE. Its a university competition which gets uni students to design and build an open wheel race car from scratch and compete against other unis.

Bout 300 unis worldwide competiting in 7 different competitions.

For more infor check out www.fsae.co.nz

Can I compete? University PAH! I'll win ya