OK , so a 4.4 L 16 cylinder engine: probably more of an engineering challenge,than an actual attempt to be all PC and deal with carbon emissions, global warming etc.

Sometimes us people that just love engineering, and don't actually care about the apparent death of the odd polar bear need to make a stand.

That is just Goddam tasty.

 

I want to hear it run. I want to see it in something old-school-cool, like a 1976 Toyota Celica ST Coupe. I want said Coupe to have a custom independent rear suspension system and be a handling gem.

Moreover, I want Japan to make just such a car for the modern age.

 

I just love the mind of a person who can not only think of this , but make it working reality

I'm not sure I'd like to be related to such a person , but what special mind

 

There's quite a few of those kind of projects around the good ole interwebs...

V8 Hayabusa (455hp....)


Then someone decided it needed twin turbos... (1100hp)



12 cylinder CBX (this one actually did go into a bike)


Someone wanted a supercharged v8 made out of 2 CB 750 engines





And there's nothing like saying (and then actually doing) "I'll just stick another engine on there"




2 CB 350's mated together (although this guy made it a crossplane crank as opposed to a balanced I4 crank)







Then there's this (using to FZR 600 heads - everything else custom)












I don't know if I can say it's a "W", but it is 4 yzf600 engines (made by the same guy who built the 12 cylinder CBX). Pancake 16? H-16?










2 ZX9's sharing the work load

 

Had to throw these up. Check out the tire flex!

 

Vented caliper - probably cost more than my bike - for just the one....

 

motorcycle....or not a motorcycle?

 

No sir it is not. It may be fun to take for a spin, it may be cool to look at, but it is not a motorcycle.
If for no other reason, unless it has a sidecar, people can't ride side by side on a motorcycle.
So there. :-P

 

Unless it has 2 wheels (primarily i.e. sidecar) - it's not a motorcycle.

 

How bout a Zeus? To my understanding you can drive one with a car license here. Could actually imagine myself doing a longer trip on one of those. To own one... not so much...