Comments on: Hayabusa V8 Powered Ariel Atom by Dennis Palatov

By: Erica van Niekerk

Erica van Niekerk — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:46:27 +0000

Kindly mail more info on you’re latest model, including price.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:08:17 +0000

If by “work well” you mean shred tires and lead to the death of the rider, then yes, it would be ideally suited to a motorcycle. As for whether it will mount into a bike, that’s another matter.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:18:23 +0000

Not wanting to beat this to death, but I believe Dennis is planning on selling DP1s with the V8 motor only. Check out the site for more info.
Hey, does anyone think this V8 would work well in a bike?

By: kneeslider

kneeslider — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:45:38 +0000

The DP1 started out with a Hayabusa 4 and along the way, Dennis looked like he was going with the V8 and even produced quite a few CAD drawings for it which are shown on his site. I wasn’t following closely but it does look like the final product stayed with the original plan and runs the 4 cylinder. Thanks for pointing that out

By: henri

henri — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:21:04 +0000

the dp1 currently runs a stock ‘busa 4cyl. i’m pretty sure from following dpcars.net that the dp1 will keep the 4cyl and be used as a body/frame/suspension test bed and the Atom will be used as a v8 test bed.

either way, Dennis is my hero!