Hayabusa Powered DP1 First Drive
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:59 am by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"
It lives! Dennis Palatov dropped us a note to let us know the amazing Hayabusa powered DP1 prototype he’s been building over the past 4 years has fired up and moved under power. If you’ve followed the build process over the past months you already know what a jaw dropping piece he’s put together.
Dennis notes that although the prototype is currently running the stock Hayabusa powerplant, after a bit more testing and development, he’ll be reengineering the car with the Hayabusa V8 plus a carbon fiber chassis for production.
The photos give you an idea of how small this car really is, the size of a large go kart, albeit with ridiculous power output. The first trip to the track with the engine running in anger should be quite the experience. I like this a lot.
Link: DP1 build diary
Related: Hayabusa V8 for the DP1
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September 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 pm
can’t imagine what a high-revving v8 must sound like….
c’mon Suzuki, build the stratoshpere so we can see a v12 in this low&go machine.
September 26th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
130k and not even street legal? The market just shrinked from .01 percent to .0001 percent. On the other side, the body looks cool and performance should be outstanding.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:26 am
Dennis’s project is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the Internet in the past few years. Then again — the thought of a motorcycle powered 4-wheeler is always cool!
Hopefully everyone realizes how much investment he has put into this project — Solidworks itself, design, facility to build, making contacts to manufacture parts, manufacturing parts themselves, assembly/testing to verify everything works, etc, etc, etc. And ultimately the prototype itself has evolved into the next iteration that will be sold to customers. It is definitely a large undertaking — and I give Dennis a LOT of credit for following through and making it happen.
Most people dream of doing something — very few actually take the steps to make that dream happen. Dennis is definitely one of the latter ones.