Episode 1. We put a $99.00 Predator engine in our Honda Insight.
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2020
- Episode 1. We basically built a street legal go kart by installing a $99.00 6.5 HP engine in our Honda Insight. How fast will it go? the answer might surprise you.
Episode 1. • Episode 1. We put a $...
Episode 2. • Episode 2. $99 Pred...
Episode 3 • Episode 3. We build a...
Episode 4 • Episode 4. We put a s...
Episode 5 • Episode 5. $99 lawnmo...
Episode 6 • Episode 6. MPG on our...
Episode 7 • Episode 7. We get th...
Episode 8 • Episode 8. We take a c...
Episode 9. • Episode 9. Honda insig...
Episode 10. • Episode 10. We do so...
Episode 11. • Episode 11. We begin t...
Episode 12. • Episode 12. We put a ...
Episode 14. • Episode 14. 420 Hemi ...
Episode 15. • Episode 15. We finish ... 
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This guy took the “Honda’s have lawnmower engines” joke to a literal level
Who said they were jokes?
@@Macsk8ing cause for American muscle guys, a 4 cylinder Honda engine is basically a lawn mower cause of the "eh" performance stock.
@@ssj2camaro21 the first Honda production cars had two-cylinder, air cooled engines adapted from their motorcycle line. Hence the lawnmower reputation/gag.
Simply put, the Japanese culture take unbelievable amounts of time into projects and refine it to it's most perfect design just by there nature, they will take something and make it smaller, faster, more reliable, less expensive. Ok so not simply put.lol but you get the idea...haha
@@tritiumrecords717 like the manufacturing of Toyota parts, where workers can stop production if there's an issue.
I'll give you $100 if you put hidden cameras under the hood, get the stock ignition key to work, and take it into an oil change on a Honda dealer and record the mechanics reaction. It would be incredible!
And then when they take you in the garage and show you, tell them it was a full size stock engine when you drove in what did you do to my car? I'll sue you!
@@pauljojo6855 say u bought it like that put vtec type r badges on it and tell him it was meant to be the sports model
Pleassseeee!!
It would be even better if you put the honda badged version of this motor in it instead of the predator
Wouldnt cost much for oil. Lol
No one can appreciate 6.5hp like this man.
It’s not the HP, it is what you do with it that matters.
A true 6 horse back in the day took a lot of food and water to keep going. Quite the improvement hahaha
@@ryancappotrue
Officer ''You were driving a little slow back there'. Driver ''Yeah my car only has 6.5 hp now''
I'm not going to give you a ticket but I'm offering to buy you lunch.
"Jesse don't do it...that guy has a little more than $100 under the hood of that car"
🤣🤣🤣
🤣😂 Hilarious
Uhh huh
Way underrated
This is the best comment I have read in a while! 🤣
YT Recommended: Hey you wanna see a guy run his car on a lawn mower engine?
Me: Uh? Yes?
It’s 4am and RUclips does not want me to go to sleep again
🤔😒😲🙄😁Right
No yt I would rather see a guy run his mower with his car engine.
@@joemerlin152 this
I was hooked cause it was an Insight, which is a near car, technically.
If probably be worried about overheating before anything else, this was a wonderful video. I put one of these engines on a beach cruiser bicycle and my only breaks were the stock coasters. The thing went 55 and I rode it to work for 2 years
Homonyms and homophones: _breaks_ _brakes_
@@coloradostrong I'll be sure to let my autocorrect know
that sounds scary &awesome.
What was the cost to build it?
Ngl this is probably the highest quality content I've seen from a small channel
ikrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Omg. You're spot on. Subscribed in first 30 seconds.
Literally 😂 like I expected it to be dog water quality made with I movie
Well 4000 subs is not a small channel my is like 140 look at me lol
Yooo I was atleast expecting a 100 k subs when I read this.
Honda engineers: “WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!!”
😂😂😂
Is this an f1 reference
@@techpoint9540 Spongebob 🧽
Honda engineers are already busy making notes on Allen Milyard designs . Wait , that would be Kawasaki.
I didn't think it would even pull away. Bloody nice. What's the gas milage I wonder.
You mean "Grass milage"? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I stole this joke from Phyl in another comment section above yours. I'll leave now. 🤧😭
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35-40 a gallon for the engine but it’s pulling a car so probably a lot less
@@elieli56 DOG😭
i think you mean gallons per mile
Very well made, and professional.
Could have been a TV show. No errors, no fumbles, sharp photography, good continuity, and humorous....
...
AND instructive!
Just to let you know.. Robot Cantina has a second season now..
Ditto!
Almost 40 mph off a lawn mower engine is actually pretty badass
Off of a 6 hp engine, no doubt. I'm waiting on the bigger engine he put in (400+cc?). Twice as big should get it to hwy speeds. Really neat stuff.
@@felipew1938 500ccm would do the job like it had before. Fiat company made small cars in the 70's with 580ccm. The motorcycle 600ccm Yamaha or Honda 4 inline engine would push this car to go to 100mph or beyond with no problem.
My bike has same enging only gose 30 idk how this car is heavier nd gose faster
@@The_Touring_Jedi I've recently been looking at a yanmar '3TN' for another application, but it would work really good as well, and being diesel would be extremely eco- friendly
imagine I'f it was a 9hp
"How much power has it got"
- No
Exactly
The lada competitor nobody was expecting
6hp
The exact opposite of American performance cars
*Mow
You are basically doing what Citroen did in the late 1930's: make a lightweight car with a 400cc engine that gets great mileage.
Immediately after WW2 Messerschmidt did the same with their KR175 and KR200. Unlike the Citroen the Messerschmidts were also aerodynamic. That's what you get when an airplane maker starts building cars.
Cool project! You could use a tiny turbo on that engine. They do exist.
Kyle from Boosted Boyz installed a tiny turbo and EFI on a 1cil motor to power a shopping cart!
Didnt the trabant also do this?
@@ocelotmadness6287 Compared to Messerschmidt, BMW Isetta or others of this kind? Nope. Trabant was a normal (but small) car.
I hope he considers a turbo water meth and hydrogen cell
Between the three of those I would imagine that he could get close to 70 mph.
He could put an electric motor on board out of like a Tesla or something. Or like golf cart electric motor backup.
Why would 974 people give this a thumbs down? What were they expecting? Ah well, I loved the video, very interesting. Something I always wanted to do! Build a streetable, licenced go kart! Bravo Robot!
I really like how this is edited in the style of an early 2000’s educational video
bill nye for sure
You hit the nail on the head right there! The editing is awesome!
I was definitely thinking more like the tutorial video to a kid's mathematics learning software
@@PACKERMAN2077 same thing but more specific?
Is that why I learned so much!?!
"Yes officer, it's entirely stock"
Just stock to different machines!! They might not be stock together though🤷🏼♂️
"Well, technically, it has a bigger motor than stock"
*Honda noticed that*
My guy is not going over 50 mph😂😂😂
Its more stocker than a stock car 😳
Haha
I lived in Africa 30 years ago and local mechanics were modifying cars similar to your idea.😂 with little to no tools.
Thanks for sharing !!!!!
39mph is impressive for 6.6 hp
A rule of thumb I remember from very early student days of the big cars .....it requires 5hp to propel a car at 30 mph on a smooth level road at sea level.
People like you are the only reason why I use RUclips
Me: Mom, my car broke down. The mechanic said I need a new engine.
Mom: We already have an engine at home.
Engine at home:
Hahaha
I laughed 😐
Well let's be honest it's better then spending thousands of dollars on an engine that barely fits or works.
@@TimkenBearing1111 im guessing that happened to you
@@copperheadgaming3386 Nah. I'm just giving my two cents on the matter is all.
"Your car sounds like a lawnmower!"
"I know."
"Your lawnmower looks like a car."
Lol !!!
This is the best video I’ve ever seen!!! Perfect blend of comedy and beautiful Engineering
That is a VERY comfortable riding lawnmower!
It gets good gas milage in city driving but has an uncanny steering towards anywhere with grass.
well how bad could it be when your using a 1.2-liter engine and you gut the car for weight
I wondered how much "grass mileage" it gets.
@@phyl1283 well he should test it out and post it cause I am guessing it would be pretty damned sweet if I had to guess
Ok Bernie Sanders see ya!
@@StonemanRocks have you spend a night at Bernie's?
It's awesome he's the man!!!!!
“Hey I got a sleeper car here”
Dude: wanna race?
You: yeah lemme pull start it!
The pull starter always makes people laugh.
Sleepy 💤 .
For anyone wondering, a sleeper car is a car that looks slow, but does have some power, Hense the name sleeper car
Put a tesla motor on the rear wheels. 🤣
I love Honda Insights! I'd like to point out that the first gen Insight that you have came with ultra low rolling resistance tires that lasted damn near forever. Not sure what tires you had running during that jeep+trailer pull, but it probably wouldn't even have had spin if it you had even some basic eco tires on it. Very impressive!
I am a proud member of the ROBOT CANTINA fan club. Love the content
and LOVE the humor of the channel. 👍👍👍
Why get an oil change when a new engine is just a few dollars more 😂
LOL
Haha this joke is so deep with irony Hojly filter. Just thinking about how often you would have to change the oil with this engine :D
God if this was Reddit I’d give you an award
@@younglouie2192 reddit is cancer
@@y-sub9567 not really
It's the modern day Citroen 2CV! Underpowered, underweight, and covered wheels in the rear. Magnifique!
Indeed it is!
Might as well get a smart car. That's basically a go kart.
Imagine one in the front and one in the back with a dual tranny.
Hey, thanks for all the comments, I really appreciate it. There are over a hundred videos now and more on the way. click on the channel to see MORE!
Easily the coolest thing I’ve seen on RUclips in a WHILE. Hats off
How do u produce vacuum for the brakes? How do u keep the battery charged?
What do you mean when you’re talking about gears (3rd vs 1st) if it has a CVT?
@@peytonmanning04 guess you need to watch it again. Pay attention this time.
@@peytonmanning04 The car has both a CVT (from a go kart) and the original honda 5 speed transmission. The combination of the two systems helps the little 6.5 hp engine accelerate the car.
This is the coolest swap I've ever seen
"I think somebody stole your catalytic converter, dude" - everyone wherever you stop in public
The tag said "California compliant", I think he's good!
I was a Honda mechanic for 15 years. This is absolutely epic dude. You are awesome.
Lmao your face says you're 9
@@percyprins3604 didn't know 9 year olds snort coke
@@moctezumaaleg2008 there’s lots you don’t know.
@@moctezumaaleg2008 omfGAWD
@@reginaldbowls7180 JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!!! 😝🤑🫣🥶🥵🤢
I was already impressed at the performance of that little engine even before I realised the speeds were mph not km/h.
This is the type of content I love. I play BeamNG and automation and this is exactly what i love to do, having people test things that nobody does gives us real research vs estimates and reasons why its dumb. Keep doing weird swaps and even gearings if you can somehow.
This is the kind of content RUclips was made for...
yes exactly🙌🏼
Comment of the year maybe?
If RUclips was made in the year 1993
That comment is not what “...” was made for
That's an insult to my bikini haul playlist
This is incredible.
Thanks! This is a really fun project and many more videos are on the way.
@@robotcantina8957 ok well now you need to put a car engine on a lawnmower
I always wanted to do this. Thanks for doing for me!
This was cool
A 1960s-1970s Volkswagen Beetle needed about 8 hp to cruise at 60 mph on level ground, no wind. The other 32 hp from its 40 hp engine was primarily used for acceleration. Nothing much has changed in half a century.
Man I've been dreaming of something DIY like this since I was a kid. Thanks for sharing, this is awesome.
I love how the second item he took out for weight was the engine 😭
LMAAOOOO
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! omfGAWD🤖 🤑😝🤪😜👻🤖
"Shhh, everybody it's the internet calling." Instant subscription.
Lmao. Good editing too
Same here lmfao
Yooooo lmao i clicked the subscribe button right after he said that.
Same here
As an owner and content creator of a first Gen Insight, idk how I haven’t found your channel sooner!
Did better than I figured. Lightweight body and good transmission configuration helped.
5:53 when you're playing any PS2 racing game with the starter car
I was literally thinking this reminds me of the first b license test from gran turismo 2 lmao
Do you know what song that is? I’d love to learn it on guitar.
@@BrklynMetM4 sounds a LOT like Van Halen but I know it isn't.
@@AccountingRaiding
Sounds a lot like Joe Satriani as well
Can you turbo charge it now and add a wing?
Thanks
Yours Truly,
The Internet
Honda owners be like
Nitrous too
Turbo would be interesting but the wing would slow it down a bit too much
@@nickhenley1338 a wing only if it provides lift !! Lol
@@nickhenley1338 I don't think that at that speed, the wing will have any effect.
this is some good classic youtube content i like to see, subscribed
I’ve seen this done once before but not with your well built transmission coupling. With the stock motor of just over 6.5 horse, I’m actually impressed with that zero to 30 and 39mph top speed.
I’ll be sure to watch your whole series on this car, as I’m always looking for content.
I’d actually love to have a car like that.
Also, people with to buy new cars with single digit HP numbers and some where quite popular. 2cv comes to mind.
you can see every time the car hits a bug when the speed drops.
Lol
And the bug bounces off instead of getting splattered
Heaven forbid if you hit a hill with too many groceries in the trunk.
Cars and cameras would love this
Video: 2020
Quality: 1080
Thumbnail appearance: Between those two years.
This kind of gives new meaning to the phrase, " The Little Engine That Could!"
I’d have liked them try a hill from a dead stop. Nothing big just even maybe a slow uphill grade.
Choo-choo, motherfuggers!
Now this is just what RUclips was meant for.
Call the guys at Guiness.......a fastest lawnmower record has just been beaten. Well done sir.
These original first generation Honda Insights are now extremely rare and sought after. It's a very interesting experiment but almost sacrilegious to dismantle one like this. It would be interesting though to see if you could get it to run solely on the hybrid electric motor which puts out 10hp as opposed to the lawnmower's 6.5hp.
Pretty impressive speed from that actually. Put a kubota 3 cylinder or a hyabusa or honda cbr1000 engine in it
That thing would get incredible fuel economy with a Kubota 3cyl diesel!
Or a Harley V-twin, just for the sound.
@@marc-andreservant201 every see the Morgan 3 wheeler? It has a very twin mounted up front. Looks pretty cool. They had one on top gear. The gauges looked like gauges from an aircraft. The whole thing reminds you of an old WWII fighter.
A collab with D boss garage ....?
Read about the 1970 Honda 600 car.
Bro when that VTEC kicked in and you went from 34 to 35 mph. That was sick.
I love your videos. Keep making these. I have a Honda insight just like this. Still running after 400K miles. Getting 70 mpg.
Lil engine is like "this isn't what I signed up for ass hole!"
Momma look at me now!!!!! 🤣
More like why you put me in that Fat Bastard!!
That is amazing speed considering the weight and still has the governor installed.
This really puts how amazing the tiny engines Honda puts into cars like this at the factory into perspective.
If you overrun a kid with this car, the car goes to hospital
I can't wait till he installs the mower deck.
Kinda want to see this, blades and all.... But with a normal engine
This summer I just about bought an Insight like that one with 152,000 miles for $2200, but I ended up buying a 2008 Honda Fit instead, because parts are easier to come by.
A good experiential project. Inspection from state requirements and engine noises, etc.
This would be perfect project for countries like Africa... Mongolia.
A hood scoop mounted for looks would've been actually functional here.
Gotta keep that air cooled engine cool
No, a hood scoop mounted for function would have been functional here. One mounted for looks would've provided nothing but looks.
The engine:
This isn't even my final form.
LOL, Dragonball Z - The Briggs-Stratton Saga!
This whole "lawnmower engine in a street vehicle" concept fascinates me. I live in the country and one of my kids lives a mile north of us. Its seven miles to town. I think something like this would make a great SHTF vehicle.
As a side note, a lady I used to work with had a Honda Insite. I always said it reminded me of a horseshoe crab.
In Europe we have a solution to this problem. For people between 15-18 years old you can drive small plastic cars with lawnmower engines on a bikes permit. The most popular ones are Ligier JS50, Aixam GTO and Chatenet.
@@theolindberg Interesting. I'll check those out.
Some of the first hybrid cars were this KISS simple.
Basically a small generator charging some batteries !
So you took a Honda insight and made a golf kart out of it.
Old people will either love it or hate it.
@illuminOz you may be an old guy, but you’re young at heart. So you are not “old people”!
@illuminOz it means that a lot of older people hate it when youngsters do dumb stuff like this for some reason. But not everyone of course. But most old people like me because I like the stuff they grew up with haha
As a mechanical engineer, I’m completely blown away and wanna know more about that transmission/gear drive Frankenstein you made. Awesome man. Now put a big boy predator in it. 24hp
man just drop a 350 in it . . .
That's called a jack shaft with a centrifugal clutch (cvt torque converter)
For a little cruiser that thing works great, gas mileage must be incredible
In episode 6, he says it gets 54 miles per gallon. That's quite a bit worse than what the Honda Insight could do before the engine swap. It was rated at 70+ mpg at highway speeds and I'm confident it would do about double that if you kept your speed down to 39 mph.
The video I watched before this was the 5 million dollar jet limo. I have to say this is a close tie. Very original and I'm impressed you were able to pull this off dude!! 😎
I had that car, and drove it for 300,000 miles. Had I known about this engine, I would’ve rigged one in with rubber bands and Scotch tape.
Really , does any Honda quit befor 300k?
I still have this car! Since 2004 and I love it!
@@robertl.fallin7062 hondas be like: i didnt hear no bell bitch
Dude, you can tell the amount of time this video took to make, and edit. Very nice for being a smaller channel.
Thank you. I needed that. That burp was unexpected and hilarious 😂
Everyone gangsta till the lawnmower Honda pulls up to the drag strip
All Honda’s are that way
I love it when the Hondas win, it's fucking priceless
0-30 in 2.5.... sorry 25.
Where’s the turbo
I bet you were holding your breath during that top speed run.
My grandmother would love such a slow car. "There is no need to go that fast."
Just found you from a new “Ghost” predator video! I’m in progress of sourcing an insight for a j series v6 swap so definitely a dope thing you did. I’m seeing a gun running 11’s in a quarter mile with just a v6!
Awesome series! 70 MPH with a 420cc engine!
Finally a worthly rival for my geo metro...
Friends! Football friends!
I would race you, but you would have to disconnect two of your spark plugs.
No that wasn’t really the internet calling. It was the 1970s. They want their phone back.
From one automotive technician to another, or actually to an engineer like yourself… I am impressed. However from one RUclipsr to another I am even more impressed how you have time to edit you’re content to be just as interesting as the subject matter while managing the project. Genuinely asking, do you also do your own editing?
Watching this at 3 in the morning. Best thing on. This is cool. Thanks
Im more impressed that you found a road that goes on for that long without a stop sign😂
Welcome to the country
@@happydoggs yeah you don't see too much of that here in Jersey
@@MatteR8 I'm from idaho so you can drive hundreds of miles without a stop on a country road
@@happydoggs yeah and traveling around here you cant go a half a mile without seeing one.... Side not, I know its home to many things but, Idaho, the home state of Dan Cummings of the Time Suc podcast😂
Out in new Mexico you can go a very long way with no stops
This was slick
Hey nerf man
Hi there!
Ahh steadman
I've never seen lord drac on any other youtube videos 😂
hey drac! whats your car?
I lack funding for filing a patent in automobile sector.... You're LUCKY to have enough to make prototypes.. May God bless you
5:03 when V-tec kicks in 😍😍😍
My luck this guy would pull out in front of me merging on the interstate.
In Alabama, the average driver would never reach this car's top speed.
I live in a gated neighborhood. This would be bad ass ed as the speed limit is 15 mph.
"We're dropping in the big block"
me: impressive, must be a 3 liter or something
"Yeah the REAL hemi-big block will be 420CC"
"420 cubic inch big block you mean?"
"Nope, 420 cubic centimeter."
@@tonepot2339haha.
This is awesome.. enjoyed the whole vid
For a minute I thought he said "CBT" and honestly that'd be a good description of this car.
You asked “Can I do this?”
But you forgot to ask “Should I do this?”
The answer was yes, so moot point.
@@zacharyrollick6169 moo point
It does answer if this engine is worth getting for a small gocart....
Effectively you just went back in time and experience what it was like having a high performance car back in the 1920's
Nope, 1910s. High performance cars back then mostly had the ability to hit 50 at the very least.
Or the 80s!
@@grandmasminecarftaccount1411 imagine taking a joke seriously or did you not realize it was a joke at all?
@@jamesmoore716 I knew it was a joke, it's just an inaccurate joke.
Some could do 100!
If I remember, the insight is a hybrid so the engine is only turning a generator. On the hybrids, the engine no longer directly drives the transmission (which is why half of them have carbon knocks now-there’s no real load on the engine. It’s like accelerating the car in neutral). So the predator engine should work fine. I have heard the predator engine is quite durable. My neighbor installed a predator engine on his dethatcher. Runs perfect
Lol the car sounded like a lawn mower that was trippy.
I'm subbed to most of the big go-kart channels: Cars and Cameras, Red Beard's Garage, Rather B Welding, Grind Hard Plumbing, and more. But, none of them have ever done anything like this. This is cool. I know how I'm spending the rest of my morning.
I watch those channels as well, good stuff and good information... but come to my channel for the fun.
That’s the jankiest CVT i ever seen
@@TheRobertChannel they finally ditched it in the new Pathfinder.
There's finally a glimmer of light
@@bryanmartinez6600 I think it still exists in their lower end cars. If only people realized that a used Toyota, Honda is better than a new Nissan, Kia, Hyundai with a crappy transmission.
@@tevinabeysekera6038 I think it'll go away over time as they have to adapt their new vehicles for the new transmission so I think it may come out in future models.
I like Nissan as long as it doesn't have a CVT. Some Infiniti come with a 7 speed auto but some do have the CVT as well.
That CVT from Jatco is also used in some Mitsubishi models as well.
I don't think Nissan as well wants to stick with the CVT as it has caused lots of warranty transmission replacement.
Honda also had their early transmission problems as well in the early 2006-2008 Ridgeline. Took 2 years to improve the transmission. Nissan has made attempts to improve the CVT but it only gained a bit more durability.
I think they finally decided to shift away.
For people in the used car market many will become victims of the CVT but also many people don't inform themselves of the vehicle they look at only that it looks nice.
Oh and I don't think Honda builds their own transmission anymore they now use a ZF 9 speed
Wow you haven’t seen bad clearly
55, it better be all down hill..start at the top of Pikes Peak.
Interesting...😂😁
Good job...👍