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Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:59 am
by poppygun
Any body got more details about the Lambretta water cooled fuel injection engine that was at Mersea island at the weekend as lost my leaflet
believe it was £8000 was trying to find more info on the web but no luck ?
Thanks

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:21 pm
by Burnside
I binned my leaflet, looked like a nice piece of engineering but £8k for a 20 bhp engine, struggling to see where the market for this is?

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:43 pm
by dutch
£8k + vat

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:20 pm
by dutch

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:33 pm
by shocky
8k is a roll in roll out service so I understand
didn't see this thread I posted in general scooter chat as he does vespa conversions as well

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:51 pm
by Burnside
How many are on the road, what is the reliability like, what about availability and price of spares. £9.6k inc VAT is a hell of a lot of money for something that produces less power than most kits out there.

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:49 pm
by shocky
Full size 5 speed gearbox, new casings , crank , clutch etc

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:27 pm
by coaster
There is a thread running on the Lambrettas for Sale group on FB, the £8k plus vat includes fitting, dyno and a 5k mile or 12 month warranty period. it's a 172cc conversion but there was no technical info when I last looked. The installation does look incredibly well thought out and seems to be using a modified Lambretta casing but the kickstart seems to be heavily modified i.e. re-positioned further back?

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:41 pm
by drunkmunkey6969
Why go to all that trouble of producing something so 'high end' and only make the engine capacity 172/180cc?????

At that price point and given the rest of design and engineering that's gone into it......why not 225/250 and a solid 30bhp/25ft-lbs with a broad spread and a decent final drive ratio???!

Seems odd.

Re: Lambretta water cooled engine at Mersea

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:35 am
by dutch
coaster wrote:There is a thread running on the Lambrettas for Sale group on FB, the £8k plus vat includes fitting, dyno and a 5k mile or 12 month warranty period. it's a 172cc conversion but there was no technical info when I last looked. The installation does look incredibly well thought out and seems to be using a modified Lambretta casing but the kickstart seems to be heavily modified i.e. re-positioned further back?

They say that they made the engine case as with all the components, the kick start is mainly for show but it is the electric start switch.

i saw it at mersey and had a good chat with them, i also can't see a market for it with that price tag.