Mid engine kit car engine choices

[Redarress]

Morning All

Currently musing about building a cheap track day car in the loose form of an Ariel Atom.

Not that keen on a motorbike engine so what light weight, inexpensive and tuneable engine do you suggest I consider for the task.

I need to also think about transmission as the majority of cars being FWD will I think not be suitable.

Lightweight and inexpensive are the key elements here I think

Any ideas would be greatly received

[Ambleton]

Surely virtually any fwd powertrain would be possible?

However i would probably be looking at using an MGF with a 1600VVC K-series OR a 1.8t VAG if starting something from scratch.

if you wanting to build a kit already out there then it's worth taking a look at the SVE Rocket which uses ford units. If i were doing this personally i'd be looking at the 1.0 3pot ecoboost which can easily be tuned to 160bhp and is VERY light.

[Redarress]

Thanks Very much. It’s no5 an engine I am familiar with so I will take a look
Cheers

[Wibber]

Hi. There’s some decent Audi/VAG engine and transaxle combos. Pretty tuneable engines, looks like. MEV do some Atom style kit cars if you don’t want to design from scratch.