Engine Bay Prawn

[The Beaver King]

It can't just be me.

I love cars and while I do appreciate the styling, the noise and the feel of a good car, nothing excites the engineer in me more than a good engine bay.

Tell me I'm not alone?!!

Show me your pics!



A GT40 replica bay. Just awesome and those manifolds...




This one's a bit closer to home. This is my old man's 1956 AC Aceca with Bristol 100 D2 engine. He's just had stainless manifolds fitted. There is some crazy 60 year old engineering on this car.


So, show us your favourite engine bay.

[anonymous-user]

Nice, but can't see the prawn in either of those pics?

[ManiacGT]

I was expecting to see a large crayfish or something that someone had secreted in an engine bay lol

[The Beaver King]

The use of 'prawn' was used in lieu of another word that tends to trip people's firewalls at work (mine included).

Sorry to build your hopes up people, there are no crustaceans here....

[Chris Stott]

Zonda R is pretty impressive...

[PhillipM]

Same car, two different engines...

[The Beaver King]

The Twin Turbo Hennessey Venom engine.

[ManOpener]

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[Puddenchucker]

[Mini1275]

[Mini1275]

[Fantuzzi]

2litre v8 from Alfa Romeo in the 33 stradale, tiny little kitten of an engine, perfect for the light weight car it lives in.



I've always thought the 500 had a tidy little bay of any normal car. Love the red.

[LukeDM]

800BHP Toyota 2JZ



1200BHP Toyota 2JZ



940BHP Honda S2000 turbo



1000BHP supercharded Dodge Viper



850BHP N/A ford V8

The most impressive part is that all of these cars compete in the same series.. More pics, engine specs and other monsters; http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/05/pick-weapon-en...

[Gixer]

Mini1275 said:

Now that is just pure art. Look at the way those headers curl round each other. Fantastic

Here's one of mine. I won't bother with the LS7, thats from today's era of engines that are just clad in plastic covers. The Lotus LT5 -

Edited by Gixer on Thursday 5th June 23:05

[Fantuzzi]

Chris Stott said:

Zonda R is pretty impressive...

Close but the 760RS is prettier, it has blue exhausts...

[anonymous-user]

Even though it looks quite like an industrial air conditioning plant, the Vantage 600 always had a beefy looking motor:




;-)

[JohnoVR6]

Another from Speedhunters, the Zakspeed Calibra;





^^ Not ashamed to admit that picture 2 was my wallpaper for a while.