Best Car for LS7 engine transplant?

[jamieduff1981]

Veeayt said:

This thread needs this car

Nope.

[R8VXF]

LSA will get you to 800+ very easily

[SuperchargedVR6]

I'd go for the sleeper approach. LS7 in a vile coloured Volvo 740 Estate.

[robsco]

Veeayt said:

This thread needs this car

Remove a TVR designed and built, race-derived flat-plane crank V8 and replace with a ten-a-penny Yank crate engine?

[cirian75]

robsco said:

Veeayt said:

This thread needs this car

Remove a TVR designed and built, race-derived flat-plane crank V8 and replace with a ten-a-penny Yank crate engine?

7 litre v8 505 horsepower and 470 lb.-ft. of torque.

[RobinBanks]

I'd love to see a Lada Niva with one.

ETA or a Riva.

[Troubleatmill]

Matt Harper said:

Troubleatmill said:

There is very little tuning potential to an LS7. ( compared to the LS3 )
GM designed the engine to win at Le Mans.
Pretty much all the work has been done for you.

Lingenfelter might disagree with the first statement.
Katech designed and built Corvette's race engines.

You can buy an LS3 engine for about £6K.
To get an LS7 - it is going to be about £11K
A Ligenfelter fettled engine ( no forced induction ) - is going to add another £10K on the LS7 - and you get about 150 extra ponies.
You might as well buy this - and get the 3 year - 60/100,000 mile warranty http://www.partsworldperformance.com/ls9-sc-v8-cra...



For Le Mans racing - you could only change/ upgrade certain components - which is why the LS7 comes with comes interesting innards.
http://www.corvettemuseum.org/specs/2006/LS7.shtml

[toasty]

Nissan Figaro in pink.

[gareth_r]

A Mk4 Supra would be a cheap starting point, and there's plenty of room and no CAN-BUS to complicate matters.

RX7s and BMWs seem to be the most popular so far (see the Readers' Cars forum).

MX5 as mentioned above (possible a little tail happy?).

There's a working RX8/LS in Readers' Cars.

A Lexus LS would be a laugh.

Volvo 960 estate (if it's good enough for Paul Newman... although his was a blown Ford 302).

BMW 840.


EDIT:
A 515bhp @ 6,500 / 469 lb-ft @ 5,000 LS3 crate engine is almost half the price of a 505 @ 6,300 / 470 @ 4,800 LS7.

Edited by gareth_r on Wednesday 28th January 13:43

[andburg]

Love to see one dropped into a Opel Manta or Monza

[caraddict]

andburg said:

Love to see one dropped into a Opel Manta or Monza

How would the chassis cope with such power?

[andburg]

caraddict said:

How would the chassis cope with such power?

Terribly!

Edit:

It'd be no worse than most american muscle cars built 1900-1990

Edited by andburg on Tuesday 27th January 16:50

[mcbook]

Not sure if it's possible but would love to see a big American V8 in a Mercedes 190E. No need to turn it into a race-car, just keep it sleeper-ish with devastating straight line performance. Would love to see that.

[Fastdruid]

marcosgt said:

Crusoe said:

Mazda rx8, already kits out there. Double the power and increase the mpg at the same time.

Got a link to one that actually works?

EVERYONE says this whenever the RX8 is mentioned, but I've NEVER seen a workable road-going conversion.

I have a mate who's in the (very slow) process of dropping one into a Marcos (unless he's given up...). That'll be quick...

I've seen one. Well an LS1 rather than an LS7 and it cost 18.5k (a very nice conversion it must be said but still 18.5k)
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I have to say much though I love the RX-8 and V8's with 18.5k and an RX-8 I'd go with a rebuild, a turbo http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/protech-perfor... and save the rest for up another 4 rebuilds (if it even needed them)....

[RobinBanks]

Morris Marina

Vauxhall Frontera

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Reliant Robin.

[dom9]

I would love to drop a tuned LS3 into an e39 estate... Assume something like a 540 would make a good base!

[Esseesse]

mcbook said:

Not sure if it's possible but would love to see a big American V8 in a Mercedes 190E. No need to turn it into a race-car, just keep it sleeper-ish with devastating straight line performance. Would love to see that.

Yes this is a pretty good idea. No harm in it having the AMG bits IMO.

[gareth_r]

mcbook said:

Not sure if it's possible but would love to see a big American V8 in a Mercedes 190E. No need to turn it into a race-car, just keep it sleeper-ish with devastating straight line performance. Would love to see that.

It's been done.

W124 / S124?.

[TEKNOPUG]

Prius.

Do it.