by "fintail" (fintail)
Published 10/12/2017 at 17:30
by "fintail" (fintail)
Published 10/12/2017 at 17:30
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STARS: 7
I thought the top engine in these was a V6 - I bet this can pop wheelies:
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 5
But just think how fun it would be to do donuts in a 2WD ranger with the engine from an S65!!
WANT!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
10/12/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 5
That’s a rare and little known homologation special. A real unicorn!
"The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123" (mattp123)
10/12/2017 at 17:34, STARS: 3
You were half right.
"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
10/12/2017 at 17:37, STARS: 2
I had a rare 01 Honda cr-v 5.9 limited. said so right on the trunk.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
10/12/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 1
Okay, but just for fun - how hard would that be to do?
It can fit a 5.0 pretty easily, as with the one installed in the Explorer, and South American Rangers could fit a 3.0l turbodiesel I4, so that speaks to *some* available length. More to the point, I found where somebody had successfully fit in a 2JZ twin-turbo.
In other words, a small enough twin turbo V12 WOULD FIT as long as it was narrow enough and didn’t have that deep of a stroke (oil pan clearance). A Jag V12 (for example) is probably about 4" too long, being 5" longer than a 2JZ...
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
10/12/2017 at 18:22, STARS: 1
Wow!
Cool, the most jalop car ever.
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
10/12/2017 at 18:22, STARS: 1
Wow!
Cool, the most jalop car ever.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
10/12/2017 at 19:02, STARS: 1
Bellevue somewhere near 112th ST?
"fintail" (fintail)
10/12/2017 at 19:06, STARS: 0
112th and Main
"boxrocket" (boxrocket)
10/12/2017 at 19:22, STARS: 0
It has a bed.
The available drivetrain room gor a MR/RR layout is almost infinite, except for width and length. Heck, you could put a jetliner engine in it if you wanted, and convert what was the engine bay to a fuel cell and maybe an electric motor for shirt distances.
I say marry two 6.7L PowerStrokes together for an almost 2K-lb-Ft torquemonster. You don’t need speed when you can change the planet’s rotation!*
*hyperbole. I still want to see a V-16 PowerStroke.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
10/13/2017 at 09:25, STARS: 1
Something I hadn’t realized is that Aston Martin had a Duratec-based V12, after Ford used it in a concept. Since I was still on the kick of having the engine under the hood, I spent entirely too much time last night looking up engine dimensions and bore spacing to research what a V12 could be made from...
As it turns out, the Ford Australia sixes are the same length as a JZ (so they would fit), and very close to the same bore spacing as a Duratec, so the easiest thing to do to make a V12 other than buying an Aston would be heads from a SOHC or DOHC Aussie six reworked to fit on a Duratec double block. I had hoped that it wouldn’t need head rework/chicanery via being able to use the OHC Cologne V6 block, but there’s too much difference in bore spacing...
The Duratec block has a pretty low block height, so that might help all this fit, but on the other hand, one might want to adapt to the Intec/Barra heads with a deck spacer and replace the cylinder sleeves to make that work, raising the deck, but allowing a slightly longer stroke so you don’t have just a 6.0 V12. On the other hand, it probably wouldn’t take to turbo as well that way, and the 3.0 geometry has the bugs worked out.
The MR/RR thing isn’t a bad point, but isn’t it funnier to have something that looks factory engineered and has a power to traction ratio that makes the Syclone and the R/T-10 look like posers?