Lunacy engine swaps

[Gav147]

Great thread!

Really enjoy reading the build threads behind these, had this one bookmarked on here but progress/updates have come to a halt for the mo.

BMW e30 Touring being fitted with lexus v8 : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[irocfan]

not sure what this counts as...

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/10/11/speed-freak...

lunacy? cool though

[jon-]

Someone must have linked this

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

5 litre V10 from the M6 in an E46 M3. Not crazy like some of them, but a exercise in tight packaging.

[braddo]

80quattro said:

Link here to a PHer who's in the process of a 'car' transplant, as against just engine. It's one of the best readers rides on PH, well worth a read http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

That is effing awesome.

[dom9]

jon- said:

Someone must have linked this

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

5 litre V10 from the M6 in an E46 M3. Not crazy like some of them, but a exercise in tight packaging.

Like that a lot... Could be a bit expensive at around twice the price of a 996TT or more than a good 997TT (as examples) but the engine is more 'exotic' in my mind, which certainly does add something, as well as its (presumably) relative uniqueness.

[shakotan]

irocfan said:

and a Vovarri....

What's the Vov bit supposed to reference?

[Trommel]

shakotan said:

What's the Vov bit supposed to reference?

Nothing, it's "Ferrambo" (Ferrari + Rambler).

[shakotan]

Trommel said:

shakotan said:

What's the Vov bit supposed to reference?

Nothing, it's "Ferrambo" (Ferrari + Rambler).

I know exactly what it is.

[irocfan]

shakotan said:

irocfan said:

and a Vovarri....

What's the Vov bit supposed to reference?

<blush> apologies.... can I make up for it with this?


Take one Lotus Esprit...



add one Audi 4.2 V8 + tranny



stir a little and voila...

[4key]

This needs forced induction to make it lunacy, but whilst we are on v8's

[Swifty Stig]

Big Fat Fatty said:

There was also a mk7 Fiesta that I read about recently that had the entire floorpan of a Sapphire 4x4 cut down to fit the body, with 500bhp or somewhere near.

Then there's MadRod and his top speed Saph, over a 1000bhp from a 2ltr YB and over 200mph!

Long live the Cossie YB!

Im sure that mk7 was featured in PFord mag year and half ago. Green, mean and very very understated! Im a Ford Nut who drives a Swift haha!
Efa more like a year and a half ago it was featured not couple months! Oh how time flys! Haha

Edited by Swifty Stig on Thursday 11th October 18:48

[RosscoPCole]

irocfan said:

What is that? Not seen one before.

[2pad]

Edited by 2pad on Tuesday 15th January 13:56

Edited by 2pad on Tuesday 15th January 13:57

[4key]

I dont know why this has never occurred to me before, the trucks are quite cheap and theres no shortage of engines around here..

Do it to an original hilux for extra deathwish

[m8rky]

GSXR 1000 meets Panda 4x4,

http://youtu.be/NQPNw7R2Zq0

Don't know if it qualifies as lunacy but looks a lot of fun.

[Uriel]

[Oilchange]

I quite like this

http://www.lotusespritworld.com/EOtherstuff/2CV_Es...

[Uriel]

4key said:

This needs forced induction to make it lunacy, but whilst we are on v8's

That must require a very short driver! IIRC there isn't really any empty space between the seats and the place the firewall would have been other than a tiny speaker shelf and the gap created by the angle of the seat backs.

[the_kato]

DanDC5 said:

Judd V8 engined E36.

The late, great Georg Plasa eh

[Pkh72]

There is some fantastically crazy stuff on this thread.

Love it!