What on earth has he brought to the shop now? This 1966 Honda S600 coupe is one of Honda’s first sports cars, heck one of the motorcycle company’s first ever production cars. And we have one, and we’re going to do something cool and crazy with it – which you can read all about here.
This unusually smol car came from the factory with a super high revving (9500 rpm!) motorcycle based engine, but that is long gone in our car. So we’re going to do what many folks have done with this chassis – swap in a modern 1000-1200 cc sport bike engine! The 1200 cc inline 4 in the S600 roadster above gives you a glimpse at how small the engine bay is, and what we have to work with. We discuss two possible Honda motorcycle engines to use – including one with a DCT transmission! – in the forum build thread’s first post.
We also talk about the possible suspension upgrades we have in store, as our coupe is sitting on a temporary frame and Miata front and rear subframes, which we will likely incorporate in our final design but in a much narrower format. We’ve got some rust removal in store using a “LASER” later this week, and we will show more of this ugly duckling soon – and hopefully it becomes a beautiful swan when we’re done! You can read more starting here.