Lunacy engine swaps

[CampDavid]

GadgeS3C said:

Liking this thread so here's a kickstart.

You just awoke this memory from somehwhere deep in my mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Start_(TV_series...

[Krikkit]

k22wes said:

205 with a Mitsubishi Evo engine

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6702983591_1f9e...

600 hp!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBykFRAXQPw&fea...

Edited by k22wes on Saturday 6th October 23:16

Was just about to post that! Mental bit of kit, saw it at Prescott hillclimb this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXu8jqJJ3g

[HarryFlatters]

thinfourth2 said:

it looks like a very bad effort to make a micra look racecar

However its stunningly crappy looks are all part of the fun



Nissan micra + loony = 450Bhp Nissan micra

Little Bandit..?

It was killed at Knockhill I believe, such a shame. I had the pleasure of seeing it run before it's demise and it was hilarious.

[900T-R]

Top thread, keep 'em coming.

[phil1979]

Not so much lunacy, but close to my heart. 145 Cloverleaf with the V6:

[Egbert Nobacon]

davepoth said:

vladcjelli said:

Nah, there was some swedish(?) chap who'd tuned something up to 1000bhp and whapped it in the front of Vauxhalls executive barge. They tried to vmax it on some ring or other, but unremembered mechanical failure may have put paid to it.

Will try to dig the issue out in the absence of someone with an infallible memory.

http://www.autobild.de/klassik/artikel/opel-omega-v8-fahrbericht-1934437.html

Here's the thing I was thinking of. In German, unfortunately. They say that the flex-plate on the gearbox couldn't take the autobahn speeds.

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/210264/vauxhall_omega.html

This is the Evo article about that Omega.

The owner apparently later had an incident at the Nurburgring and deformed it somewhat.

[KarlMac]

Can't believe nothing built by Ian Birch has made it into this thread. The Dahlback Golf is worth a google too.

[thinfourth2]

HarryFlatters said:

thinfourth2 said:

it looks like a very bad effort to make a micra look racecar

However its stunningly crappy looks are all part of the fun



Nissan micra + loony = 450Bhp Nissan micra

Little Bandit..?

It was killed at Knockhill I believe, such a shame. I had the pleasure of seeing it run before it's demise and it was hilarious.

Yep

I first encountered it at Crail where it beat my Caterham down the strip by a HUGE margin

[s_zigmond]

Sorry if already posted:

http://www.retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?boar...

Fiat 500 400bhp small block V8 with NOS

[Uriel]

I've never been able to find it again, but on the internet I came across an 'almost complete' project X1/9 that somehow had a 500cu.in. shoehorned in. Recall that the rear end had been widened somewhat and it looked rought as hell. Don't know about stongest contender for greatest degree of lunacy, but quite possibly the most inappropriate engine swap I've ever seen.

[timbob]

Winners so far (for me, anyway) are the cars with engines not designed for cars shoehorned in. Aeroplane and/or tank engines are brilliantly inappropriate!

Wonder if anyone's ever put a big marine diesel engine in the back of a transit van...?

[crofty1984]

Cement mixer engine in a motorbike.

[Switch]

Uriel said:

I've never been able to find it again, but on the internet I came across an 'almost complete' project X1/9 that somehow had a 500cu.in. shoehorned in. Recall that the rear end had been widened somewhat and it looked rought as hell. Don't know about stongest contender for greatest degree of lunacy, but quite possibly the most inappropriate engine swap I've ever seen.

In a similar vein


http://www.petrolheadnirvana.com/torque/showthread...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140622560591?nma=true&am...

[vdubbin]

Pretty sure PSA never produced a 3.o Partner van…
http://t.co/0afa9hb9

[g3org3y]

So much WIN.

[900T-R]

^^^^ Now that'd surprise a few I'd imagine.

[xRIEx]

Egg Chaser said:

I love that number plate (yes, I know it's not real). I wonder if someone somewhere does have Z22 ZZZ.

thinfourth2 said:

strudel said:

And no doubt all fully declared to the insurers

It was actually as the engine was worth about 5 times what the car was

Some insurers/scheme brokers will give discounts for heavily modified cars, on the assumption that owners who put in a lot of work will take more care of the car.

[The Black Flash]

GadgeS3C said:

Liking this thread so here's a kickstart.

As Mr William's previous creation just wasn't enough he built this - 42l V12 Packard Bentley. Top man!

Definately. Both are amazing, ridiculous, fantastic things. The noise and flames are epic.

[ajprice]

From retrorides, an Elise 1.8VVC engined, spaceframed Citroen Dyane





I'm not sure if it was this car but many years ago, possibly in Fast Lane magazine, I remember a yellow Lotus engined Dyane. It had a plastic garlic or onion hanging in the windscreen as l low tech g meter, bigger angle = harder cornering, dangling on the glass = rolled it

[DanielJames]

Hoygo said:

Ls1 S2000

dat dere photoshop!