Engine Upgrade? 2004

 

After suffering another bottom end bearing failure in my Honda engine I decided to try
something a little different by installing a sled engine, the goal is to install without
butchering up the Pilot, make it all bolt in so in the future if I wanted to go back to
the Honda engine going back would be a bolt in affair and in a matter of hours I
could swap back,  so the whole conversion will be bolt in.


The first step is to locate the engine I made up a bar with the stock center to center
distance and using shims got the proper offset, this will help me maintain the proper
distances when locating the engine.

This is a rotary engine so if I use regular carbs the engine will need to be mounted high
so the carbs can clear the transmission, having the engine mounted high makes the
exhaust a difficult task because it is so close to the seat, with the engine up I can fabricate
a fuel tank that will set below the engine.

 

 

Mounted high