The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XVIII)

[ATM]

braddo said:

Ha. To this day I remember a 'featured ad' or whatever it was in one of the classic mags around 2003, when they would test drive 2 or 3 cars in their classifieds section. It was a 190E done by Carlsson, a 5L V8 in a 190E, RHD, manual. Standard bodywork, just lowered suspension and some gold BBS alloys (and a loud exhaust) were the giveaways. The article suggested putting it back on standard wheels for sleeper effect. £5000.

For years I hoped it (or something similar) would turn up again in the classifieds. Alas...

And now you crawl the classifieds looking for that interesting car to pop out. Big engine transplants are always good and we need more of them. I was sad to see my v8 e46 leave me. I'm even more disappointed that the new owner seems to be less than ecstatic with it. Hopefully they get on and I see the car being enjoyed.

[shalmaneser]

ATM said:

braddo said:

Ha. To this day I remember a 'featured ad' or whatever it was in one of the classic mags around 2003, when they would test drive 2 or 3 cars in their classifieds section. It was a 190E done by Carlsson, a 5L V8 in a 190E, RHD, manual. Standard bodywork, just lowered suspension and some gold BBS alloys (and a loud exhaust) were the giveaways. The article suggested putting it back on standard wheels for sleeper effect. £5000.

For years I hoped it (or something similar) would turn up again in the classifieds. Alas...

And now you crawl the classifieds looking for that interesting car to pop out. Big engine transplants are always good and we need more of them. I was sad to see my v8 e46 leave me. I'm even more disappointed that the new owner seems to be less than ecstatic with it. Hopefully they get on and I see the car being enjoyed.

I followed the build of that car closely and was more than tempted when I heard you were selling!

What issues is the current owner finding? As the ex-owner of an engine swapped car (albeit a 205 GTI) I know that these things are rolling projects as opposed to finished articles.

Let me know if he wants to get rid!

[ChocolateFrog]

Saw a Mk1 Focus RS pull into a disabled space at my local leisure centre and thought here we go.

I was quite surprised when two older ladies got out.



Fair play.

[rejn]

I've never had an engine swap but I love the idea.

I'm still regretting not going to look at that v10 e46 m3 a while back.

[ATM]

shalmaneser said:

ATM said:

braddo said:

Ha. To this day I remember a 'featured ad' or whatever it was in one of the classic mags around 2003, when they would test drive 2 or 3 cars in their classifieds section. It was a 190E done by Carlsson, a 5L V8 in a 190E, RHD, manual. Standard bodywork, just lowered suspension and some gold BBS alloys (and a loud exhaust) were the giveaways. The article suggested putting it back on standard wheels for sleeper effect. £5000.

For years I hoped it (or something similar) would turn up again in the classifieds. Alas...

And now you crawl the classifieds looking for that interesting car to pop out. Big engine transplants are always good and we need more of them. I was sad to see my v8 e46 leave me. I'm even more disappointed that the new owner seems to be less than ecstatic with it. Hopefully they get on and I see the car being enjoyed.

I followed the build of that car closely and was more than tempted when I heard you were selling!

What issues is the current owner finding? As the ex-owner of an engine swapped car (albeit a 205 GTI) I know that these things are rolling projects as opposed to finished articles.

Let me know if he wants to get rid!

It seems he is pulling the engine out to rebuild it.

[Rocket.]

Problem with engine swaps imo (lessons learned from Elise S1 with K20 SC) there are a lot of so called specialists and experts out there but reality is it's like driving a development car so some parts are bespoke and these parts will and do go wrong. So long as you go in eyes open and are relaxed about it, no problem but the car will spend time off the road which combined with it being an old Lotus can add up !

[Leins]

rejn said:

I've never had an engine swap but I love the idea.

I'm still regretting not going to look at that v10 e46 m3 a while back.

E31 5.6 V12 into an E36 Compact is still top of my engine swap list, very similar to the single Racing Dynamics K55 Compact that exists

[ATM]

rejn said:

I've never had an engine swap but I love the idea.

I'm still regretting not going to look at that v10 e46 m3 a while back.

People are shoving that v10 in all sorts. I have you tube video pop up a Few weeks back. It was a mk2 escort with the v10 in sliding round some mountain roads. I had to turn it off because the noise was giving me impure thoughts.

[braddo]

I love the idea of the M5's V10 but not the gearbox and general bork/fear factor that goes with the whole.

So what would Threadists put the V10 in?

Think I'll go for a basic E34 5 series. Not too small, nor big and heavy. Manual, good passive suspension, uprated brakes and diff. Keep the level of electronic stuff low. A car for ripping down to Grenoble and onto the Route Napoleon.

[ATM]

braddo said:

I love the idea of the M5's V10 but not the gearbox and general bork/fear factor that goes with the whole.

So what would Threadists put the V10 in?

Think I'll go for a basic E34 5 series. Not too small, nor big and heavy. Manual, good passive suspension, uprated brakes and diff. Keep the level of electronic stuff low. A car for ripping down to Grenoble and onto the Route Napoleon.

E60 M5 was available as a manual in US I believe so it can't be too complicated to mount to it.

[L100NYY]

Evening chaps,

All this talk of E36 Compacts has whetted my appetite as always found a tweaked one a rather appealing wee prospect.

I seem to remember an ex local BMW dealer's demo that I posted on here relatively recently, I think it was a Boston Green 318Ti AC model.......

..........in fact

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[L100NYY]

[L100NYY]

FYI Silverstone Classic is on ITV4 now guys

[jeremyc]

braddo said:

So what would Threadists put the V10 in?.

Mit manuel, naturlich.

[chris116]

braddo said:

So what would Threadists put the V10 in?

[Cactussed]

I've always thought that the V10 in an ultima would give you the poor mans F1...

[LHD]

Cactussed said:

I've always thought that the V10 in an ultima would give you the poor mans F1...

That would be the poor mans own fault.

[Gruber]

jeremyc said:

That'll do as it is, thanks.

[TobyLerone]

braddo said:

PH classifieds has a couple of low miles E63 estates with the 6.2, albeit at strong prices.

211:
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

What a lovely looking machine. I don't harbour the same love for Mercs as the general PH population seems to, but to me, this is fantastic.

Big engine, rear drive estate. Stupid fast, and they sound brilliant.

[p1stonhead]

TobyLerone said:

braddo said:

PH classifieds has a couple of low miles E63 estates with the 6.2, albeit at strong prices.

211:
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

What a lovely looking machine. I don't harbour the same love for Mercs as the general PH population seems to, but to me, this is fantastic.

Big engine, rear drive estate. Stupid fast, and they sound brilliant.

Yeah thats lovely.