VFR800-Powered RWD 1972 Honda N600 Build Project
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VFR800 Powered RWD 1972 Honda N600 Build Project
There are two kinds of N600 owners - those who’ve managed to painstakingly restore Honda’s archetype hatchback down to the very last factory-approved cotter pin, and those who stuff the drive wheels out back and a bike engine up front nearly twice as big as what Honda thought the car ought to have.
If there were a club for period-correct and restored N600s and their caretakers, Dean Williams would’ve been ousted from it a long time ago. Vintage revivals and things like engine swaps, non-native suspension changeovers, and a flip-flop of the little three-door’s business end all suggest that Williams’ renovation is more heresy and less purity. But the 105 hp that the motorcycle engine turns out (the N600 made as little as 36 hp) and the 127 mph that Williams will tell you that the whole thing’s capable of-whether or not it’s in flippant defiance of any classic car rulebook-says that purity’s overrated and that every cut, chop, and weld was worth it.
Engine swaps don’t get any more unfamiliar than what Williams, a Central California middle-school English teacher, has drummed up, but for him this one couldn’t make any more sense. The N600, he says, was an easy choice, and is merely a sentimental stand-in for the ’72 he’d owned back in college.
“Driving that car was like being in a race that no one else knew they were in,” he says about the scant three-door that, when new, sold for around a buck a pound. “You had to drive it hard to keep up, which was half the fun.” For Williams, the engine is just as logical, of which he borrowed from his own sport bike, a Honda Interceptor, the basis of which is a fuel-injected, V-4 box of aluminum with an 11.8:1 compression ratio, and that somehow fits within the N600’s recess. “I adored that bike,” Williams says, “and still feel a bit of guilt for tearing it down.”
The guilt is short lived, though, and that’s mostly because its the 782cc, twin-cam engine that makes Williams’ N600 so special. It’s also what, according to Williams, was able to fit within the car’s “oddly shaped” engine bay yet still turn out the sort of power he was looking for. “The fifth-gen 800 is such a sweet little lump,” he says about the mill. “[It’s got] enough power for my needs, a flat torque curve, and an exhaust note that’ll make your soul smile.” And for the guy reading this who’s wondering why in the world he didn’t stuff something like a 240hp, six-cylinder Odyssey engine in front of the driver, Williams would like to have a word with you: “At the outset I wanted to avoid extending the nose of the car, and I wanted to leave the firewall alone, so the space available led me to the relative cube shape of the VFR platform.” He also didn’t want to end up with an overpowered, 1,500lb coffin.
N600 collectors won’t be done throwing their hands in the air even after the hood’s been shut. Camaro bumpers have been grafted onto each end, a first-generation Miata lent its underpinnings to the car’s now four-wheel independent suspension, and if you think the seats look like they belong to a sand buggy, that’s because Williams nabbed them from a Polaris RZR. And, as it turns out, this N600 can’t even be flicked into reverse. “I struggled for a long time [trying] to integrate reverse,” Williams - who executed the whole project on his own and has already experimented with various transmission configurations - says, “but once I got the car running, I realized that [it] was so light and easy to push that the hassle and weight penalty of integrating reverse wasn’t worth it.”
There was no wavering when Williams spotted the 45-year-old Honda in the California desert a few years back, wheel-less and plopped right onto its mangled and rusted hubs that, he says, had been sitting that way since ’84. He knew the engine swap was going to happen. He knew he’d manage that rear-wheel-drive conversion. And he knew he’d drive it back and forth to work just about every day.
Builder: CC Runner (Dean Williams)
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I can’t believe how much better the front end looks with the custom bumpers and vents. English teacher? No way...Master fabricator!
It’s been a while since I’ve watched one of these all the way through... what an immensely creative and resourceful build. 👏
Me too
unreal passion and love went to this build. LOVE it
The end result is just incredible! And the sound of that Interceptor Vfr 800 FI engine still gives me goosebumps!
Looks great. We moved a bunch of these this summer. Good to see they are still alive and well
我小學5年級時，學開車的第一部車，就是這台啦！
very interesting , but volume off !
Sounds awesome 48:00
Getting famous off comments day 207, so I can live the dream, live everyday like it’s your last day🚀🤙
wish I would have bought this when it was on BAT
Awesome build!
Absolutely brilliant. Well done and thanks
Beautiful work, beautiful car
Very nice build! Awesome build choice as well
Amazing !
amazing project. insane build.#honda
Sehr geil geworden 👌😍
Nice build, though he's going to be an expert at changing out that little clutch, every few months.
😉👍✨とても美しい仕上がり！
Very dope
nice car keep going it looks like mini
Congrats men, very nice car and a grat work process. Regards from Spain
How many man hours have gone into this fab little Honda?
Nice car
I love your videos man never clicked so fast 😍
ホンダN600に！強者
すごい
wow
🔥🔥🔥🔥👍
すっげえ
is there anti chance to make the engine at the back
this is nice. I have one n600 and one z600. Im looking for new rims tho. Where did you find yours?
Wonderful. Clutch discs are not that much for a 2 person go-kart.
wow
This the one that was flogged on The Smoking Tire a couple of years back?
that's wheels looks like from a golf mk2
個人の好みだけどオーバーフェンダーじゃなくてもいい気がする
I saw this on another vid is this your car?
Been a while
🤘🤘💚👽
Se parece a un mini
Fun fact : The first production runs of the Original Honda Civic 600 were forced contacted to be sold at Motorcycle dealerships because the American government refused to recognize the 600ci drivetrain to be large enough to be considered of automotive mechanical engineering and thus it was originally classified as a 4 wheel Motorcycle and Honda had to force their Motorcycle dealerships to sale them
what is the engine honda use to the car?
Кастрировать за это...
う～ん出来るだけ元の原形で
Baravo
Alter was für ein Pfusch unglaublich!
Fehlen noch die Wurstblinker ;-)