Cerbera with Sagaris Front and Japanese Engine?

[Glassman]

Posting because it's not a wind-up; it's being built or in modern parlance, restomodded.

A Cerbera, with a Sagaris front and a Nissan Skyline engine.

Don't shoot the messaenger

[Glassman]

[Glassman]

[baconsarney]

Love it…
(Don’t shoot the poster)

[Let off some steam Bennett]

I like it

[frontfloater]

That seems like a puzzling choice of engine. Online stats indicate 250-280 BHP for a Skyline, unless you severely modify it - in which case the reliability and durability will probably be low. Why install an engine that will give less power than the original, or require such a high state of tune that it will be in danger of going bang after a short time?

[Glassman]

frontfloater said:

That seems like a puzzling choice of engine. Online stats indicate 250-280 BHP for a Skyline, unless you severely modify it - in which case the reliability and durability will probably be low. Why install an engine that will give less power than the original, or require such a high state of tune that it will be in danger of going bang after a short time?

From what I understand, the car was fire damaged and acquired minus its engine. There was an unattached engine and box from a Skyline and they thought to marry the two.

[Let off some steam Bennett]

Is this being built in England

[Glassman]

Yes.

[snotrag]

frontfloater said:

That seems like a puzzling choice of engine. Online stats indicate 250-280 BHP for a Skyline, unless you severely modify it - in which case the reliability and durability will probably be low. Why install an engine that will give less power than the original, or require such a high state of tune that it will be in danger of going bang after a short time?

You are way off there. An RB26 can be easily built to produce waaaaaay more power waaaay more easily than either of the TVR options, and reliably, too.

If you want an inline 6 engine, you may as well start with one of the very best and most popular.

[MustangGT]

snotrag said:

frontfloater said:

That seems like a puzzling choice of engine. Online stats indicate 250-280 BHP for a Skyline, unless you severely modify it - in which case the reliability and durability will probably be low. Why install an engine that will give less power than the original, or require such a high state of tune that it will be in danger of going bang after a short time?

You are way off there. An RB26 can be easily built to produce waaaaaay more power waaaay more easily than either of the TVR options, and reliably, too.

If you want an inline 6 engine, you may as well start with one of the very best and most popular.

Exactly, 600 reliable bhp is achievable, most were easily 300+ bhp from the factory, there was a 'gentlemen's agreement' not to produce engines with more than 276 bhp (the RB26 quoted output).

[ATG]

frontfloater said:

That seems like a puzzling choice of engine. Online stats indicate 250-280 BHP for a Skyline, unless you severely modify it - in which case the reliability and durability will probably be low. Why install an engine that will give less power than the original, or require such a high state of tune that it will be in danger of going bang after a short time?

I thought Skyline engines were considered highly tunable largely because the engine was strong and remains reliable and the gear box can take a considerable increase in torque? So if you wanted a fairly mental turbo conversion, the skyline lump sounds like a reasonable choice.

.... wot they said ^^^

[Dudley99]

Which Skyline engine is this? It looks very old. Is it just being test-fitted in the photo and then being sent away for rebuild, because it looks pretty poor with rusty ancillaries as it is.

You can get big reliable power depending on the version, but that costs big money.

[baconsarney]

I have a friend who has rebuilt a skyline engine and fitted it into a 350z with mods to all parts of the car including suspension, brakes, cooling in fact mechanically very little is stock, and it has massive turbos. The engine was rebuilt with forged internals. It’s been totally reliable for the last 5 years including numerous track days. Anyhoo, consensus among the skyline illuminati is that the stock engine with just minor mods is good for up to 500bhp and remains totally reliable. I’ve been on track in Gruffalos’s Cerb which I think at the time was pushing out around 700hp… it frightened the life out of me and broke down after about 10 laps and had to be recovered…
So, a reliable straight six with 500hp in a Cerb sounds like a whole lot of fun to me…

[Dudley99]

Which version of the Skyline engine?

[baconsarney]

Dudley99 said:

Which version of the Skyline engine?

No idea I’d have to ask him….

[Let off some steam Bennett]

Looks like a R32 / R33 engine to me

[Let off some steam Bennett]

RB26 I think

[Basil Brush]

Dudley99 said:

Which Skyline engine is this? It looks very old. Is it just being test-fitted in the photo and then being sent away for rebuild, because it looks pretty poor with rusty ancillaries as it is.

Have you looked under most TVRs?

I really like it. It looks like it's come to life from a Grand Turismo game.

I've always fancied doing a Tuscan in the style of the wide body T440s

Edited by Basil Brush on Wednesday 27th August 12:47

[Let off some steam Bennett]

What colour would you paint it though