The versatility of the GSR-R engines

Last March DaimlerChrysler announced that sometime in 2006 or the latest in 2007 will start to distribute the Smart Fortwo, a really small and light car (microcar) very popular in Europe and in Japan. The engine range is composed of only a turbocharged three cylinder 700cc motors capable of 50 hp, more or less according to the configuration. In the Old Continent people have been zipping with the Smarts in the congested cities for years so it is easy to find them at cheap prices if they were involved in accidents. As you can imagine it must be easy to find savaged bikes too, so some passionate Spaniards have had the idea to spice up an old Smart with a Suzuki GSX-R 1000 engine with 200hp. Researching the net I was able to find another similar project, the Smartuki (article 1 and 2), much more refined from what I can depict from the pictures.