Spare veyron engine: what car

[Rawwr]

[VeeFour]

Easy fit, but would be quite amusing.

[Mark_Karting]

Right in the middle, painted like that too!

[McSam]

Kinda makes me wonder, if we found a barge big and wide enough to fit it into, how well would it stay cool if it was front-mounted? I bet it'd be okay with a decent-sized grille and a radiator that made up most of the front face of the engine bay.

This, of course, is to avoid having to detune it at all

[Zwoelf]

Mark_Karting said:

Right in the middle, painted like that too!

Best one so far.

[Cattleman]

Ford transit, just like the one on top gear with the XJ220 engine

[Negative Creep]

Mk1 Ford Sierra 5 door base. I would keep the unpainted grille and single door mirror although the 13 inch steels may need an upgrade.......

[Zwoelf]

Cattleman said:

Ford transit, just like the one on top gear with the XJ220 engine

I'd forgotten all about that one.



Brilliantly mad.

[LHD]

Zwoelf said:

An L322 Range Rover, it was originally engineered to take the BMW V12, so it should squeeze in as that's not a particularly narrow engine bay either. It'd probably notice the 450kg lump over the front axle less than many cars. Gearbox might be tricky though...

I may have seen a L322 with a V12.

[Swoxy]

Skoda Superb.

[Hudson]

put it in the back instead. tint windows. leave everything else standard.

the most expensive way to have a laugh ever but imagine the Merc SLR/Lambo drivers face when an old Picasso comes ripping past at 180mph...

[VeeFour]

Swoxy said:

Skoda Superb.

Heh, I reckon that could be done with a Mk1 Superb, too, as the Passat on which it was based could be had with a W8, and it had a longitudinal lump.

[F1GTRUeno]

Original Beetle or Type 2.

[Zwoelf]

VeeFour said:

Swoxy said:

Skoda Superb.

Heh, I reckon that could be done with a Mk1 Superb, too, as the Passat on which it was based could be had with a W8, and it had a longitudinal lump.

One bank of a Veyron engine then, minus the turbos and associated pipework and radiators

[left to right]

Mark_Karting said:

Right in the middle, painted like that too!

no it needs this engine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDk5xJ30_g&fea...

[VeeFour]

Zwoelf said:

One bank of a Veyron engine then, minus the turbos and associated pipework.

Erm, in a word. No.

Half a Veyron lump, ie. 8 cylinders lopped off the end.

The Veyron lump is essentially 2 banks of 'VR8' configuration engines, the Passat W8 is 2 banks of VR4 configuration engines. IYSWIM.

[J4CKO]

I will have it, on Saturday, this happened,



To my wife's



And have spent the evening trying to salvage enough bits from the broken engine and a waterlogged spare to make 1 working one.

[robsco]

VeeFour said:

Easy fit, but would be quite amusing.

My exact thought when I saw the thread title, VeeFour.

[Zwoelf]

VeeFour said:

Zwoelf said:

One bank of a Veyron engine then, minus the turbos and associated pipework.

Half a Veyron lump, ie. 8 cylinders lopped off the end.

The Veyron lump is essentially 2 banks of 'VR8' configuration engines, the Passat W8 is 2 banks of VR4 configuration engines. IYSWIM.

It is indeed. Still, having seen a W8 in a Passat, I can't imagine the same thing doubled in length, with four turbos added, the exhaust and air pipes, intercoolers etc all squeezing in there too.

I could be wrong (see above ), but I think the reality is that there's only one place a Veyron engine can actually fit as it was built, then the car added around it. Unfortunately.

[harryowl]

Meh, it's nothing special. 4 turbo's to get 1000bhp from 8 litres. Sounds crap too.

Edited by harryowl on Tuesday 7th June 23:11