Shocking!

[Twincam16]

Have a look at this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29750&item=4555297753&rd=1

That engine's crying out for a Dino restoration project, a Ferrari Dino replica or a Stratos replica.

Still, I suppose it's a Ferrari engine on the cheap - question is, [i]how did it get in there?[/i]

[Mutant Rat]

Hmmm...I live just outside Ashby de la Zouch, so it must be lurking in a garage near me. Almost worth going for a look, just out of curiosity!

Not a particularly cheap source of power for a Stratos or Dino replica (the Opus is front engine/RWD, so the gearbox is presumably Fiat...you'd need to source a Ferrari transaxle for a mid-engined application, by which time the cost would be comparable to finding yourself a Lancia Thema 8.32 to disembowel.

It'd make a nice noise in a Seven, though!

[Twincam16]

I just get the idea that, for a freshly reconditioned Fiat Dino engine, buying a ratty Opus HRF kit car seems to be a cheap way in.

I don't think anywhere other than a Fiat/Ferrari Dino, or a good accurate Dino or Stratos replica, or a good Ferrari-inspired classic componant car like the Reed Spyder or the Rawlson 164LM, would be fitting for it, somehow.

[cinqster]

But the Opus is probably rarer than the Dino engine...horrible though it is!

I'd give it about another three years before the duffers of the English historic/collector scene decide the Opus is cool...it'd probably take a few guest appearances at Goodwood FOS first before the Pimms settle.

>> Edited by cinqster on Saturday 11th June 23:25

[justayellowbadge]

Mutant Rat said:

a Lancia Thema 8.32 to disembowel.