"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
10/22/2013 at 11:30 • Filed to: None
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"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
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The Prius topic got me thinking, are there any common swaps where people take a transverse/fwd setup and mount in the back of a mid-engine car? The 5.3 V8 from the FWD Impala was mentioned, for instance. It sounds like a really cool idea! Haha. It'd be an honorable swap for that poor FWD V8.
MonkeePuzzle
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/22/2013 at 11:33 |
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Del Sols
Casper
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/22/2013 at 11:34 |
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Yes. For instance, people take the transverse v6s and move them into MR2s... and even occasionally do it with v8s. There just aren't many MR cars that benefit from swaps like this. For instance if you dropped an iron v8 in the back of an SW20 MR2, the handling would be insanely bad. You would have to do it to a longer vehicle like a Chevy Corvair, but with a lot of fabrication... doing so with something that wasn't mid engine would be nearly impossible without a machine shop and a lot of time/money on your hands.
CalzoneGolem
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/22/2013 at 11:36 |
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Relevant : Cadillac Twinstar
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/mosler…
JasonStern911
> Casper
10/22/2013 at 11:46 |
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The Corvairs, like the Porsche 914s, suffer from the fact that the engines are oil cooled and not water/coolant cooled. Thus almost all motor swaps add the additional complexity of working out a cooling system.
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Casper
> JasonStern911
10/22/2013 at 11:48 |
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Yeah, but that is easier than starting with an FF or FR car and going MR. Running lines and making up a radiator bracket in the front fascia is much easier in my book ;) They even use to do it back in the day and there are a fair number of examples around of the kits driving:
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/22/2013 at 12:05 |
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It's common enough with Peugeot 106 GTis that there's a company that sells all the kit to do it with. Full subframe that bolts into the rear of the car.
feather-throttle-not-hair
> Casper
10/22/2013 at 13:59 |
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I've seen pictures of a V8 MR2 that utilized an aluminum engine from an audi A8.
They had to do serious surgery on the firewall and throughout the chassis to make it fit though.
Edit: This is not the one i was thinking of, but i think this is the most common V8 swap into MR2s
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feather-throttle-not-hair
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/22/2013 at 14:00 |
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I'm still waiting for someone to build a Northstar powered Elise.
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Casper
> feather-throttle-not-hair
10/22/2013 at 14:34 |
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Wow, that one required them to push the firewall all the way to the seats. I don't even want to imagine how much time and money went into that thing. I wonder if pushing it so far forward and adding the weight there helped or hurt the ability to catch it on snap over.