BMW i3 Engine Swap - Doable?

"nermal" (nermal) 10/19/2017 at 18:51 • Filed to: Brilliant ideas, Works out on paper, Carbon Credits

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The cheapest available BMW i3 listed for sale is around $14k. The cheapest available BMW S1000RR motorcycle listed for sale is around $8k. For $22k + ???, how difficult would it be to remove the electrical components from the car and replace with the bike engine?

It would net a car that is < 2,500 lbs, RWD, with 200 HP, a 13k redline, and 6 speed sequential manual transmission.

Why has nobody tried this yet? What is the hold up from doing so?

TheHondaBro > nermal 10/19/2017 at 19:04

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What is the hold up from doing so?

Probably the fact that it’s a very new and expensive car. Also working on hybrid electrics can kill you if you do something wrong.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > nermal 10/19/2017 at 19:19

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If it were sold with the B38 1.5 Turbo 3 cylinder from the Mini, it’d be perfect.

I’d like to make that happen one day.

Orange Exige > nermal 10/19/2017 at 19:29

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I’d consider a cheap i3 though I don’t love them... Being so quirkily (and futuristically too) designed though, I feel like it just makes sense as an EV so I’d say let it live its life as an EV. I don’t think there’s any EVs now where I’d say “I’d like to have a gas version of that car”. (a good number already have gas versions anyway)

No Prius Needed > nermal 10/19/2017 at 19:35

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Wouldn’t it not have a reverse gear?

CaptDale - is secretly British > nermal 10/19/2017 at 19:41

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I think you are doing this wrong. Buy i3 and a small British car and swap electrics into British car. #quiethoon

OPPOsaurus WRX > TheHondaBro 10/19/2017 at 20:07

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working on any car can kill you if you do something wrong. Hybrids just present me and shocking methods to do so.

benjrblant > CaptDale - is secretly British 10/19/2017 at 20:12

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Maybe, something small, and british, sorta like a... sprite?

CaptDale - is secretly British > benjrblant 10/19/2017 at 20:20

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Except I was thinking is twin MG Midget

nermal > No Prius Needed 10/19/2017 at 21:00

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shop-teacher > nermal 10/19/2017 at 21:06

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“Why has nobody tried this yet? What is the hold up from doing so?”

The fact that you’d spend $22k, plus need do an obscene amount of work and fabrication, and I bet easily another $8k in parts to make it happen.

I mean, I like where your head is at, I really do .... but this is next level insane.

bob and john > nermal 10/19/2017 at 22:41

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Bike trans wouldnt hold up to it.

Its meant for a 600lbs bike and rider. Not 2800lbs of car and person.

pip bip - choose Corrour > nermal 10/20/2017 at 05:27

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why not go all the way with a V12 LS motor?

LongbowMkII > OPPOsaurus WRX 10/21/2017 at 11:09

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take your fucking star