Idle thought, engine swap from catham?
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I'm not sue how serious this is, but I have been half looking at replacing the caterham with something more sensible, possibly an Elise, there are lots of 120bhp S2s around, I would be interested in something with more get up and go, so started checking out honda engines conversions which look expensive.
My cateham has a recently rebuilt 210 bhp vhpd engine, how straightforward would it be to swap the caterham engine into the Elise and vice versa? I reckon it could devalue the caterham by 2-3k, but assume it would probably increase the value of the Elise by the same amount?
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My cateham has a recently rebuilt 210 bhp vhpd engine, how straightforward would it be to swap the caterham engine into the Elise and vice versa? I reckon it could devalue the caterham by 2-3k, but assume it would probably increase the value of the Elise by the same amount?
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Altrezia said:
Ah there's a fair bit of room - though things do get hot.
I would say that the 120bhp S2's are probably the least desirable of all the Elises - worth considering that when buying. (I did love mine though)
I guess that was why it seemed like a good idea, pick up a 120 bhp elise relatively cheaply, and drop in my vhpd engine. I would say that the 120bhp S2's are probably the least desirable of all the Elises - worth considering that when buying. (I did love mine though)
Off to do some tyre kicking this weekend.
k20erham said:
Hi Gareth, fairly straight forward, either the Toyota 2zz engine and gearbox or the K20 type R Honda, forget anything else IMO. Both very well supported and hugely tune-able, I've got a superlite with 285BHP K20 Honda Sadev box and paddleshift but just bought an Exige S2 supercharged and LOVE it.
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