Comments on: Hayabusa Powered DP1 First Drive

By: MikeQuasar

MikeQuasar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:26:14 +0000

Has anyone heard of or know the whereabouts of a small V-8 made from two Crosley 4 cylinder blocks on a common crankcase. It was built by a terrific machinist name Whitey Theusen. Whitey also built a two seat sports reacing car for it and raced it extensively in the 1950s. Whitey has passed on, but I would like to find and restore both engine and car, if either exists. Can anyone help?

By: Bill C.

Bill C. — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:47:13 +0000

This would be a perfect motor to build a worthy recreation of a 1968 Alfa-Romeo 33 Stradale……that would be the ultimate, IMHO.

By: Mark Savory

Mark Savory — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:26:15 +0000

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.

By: alejandro martinez

alejandro martinez — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:06:06 +0000

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.

By: hoyt

hoyt — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:04:02 +0000

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.