Just some Abomination pics

"BeauM" (BeauM) 02/04/2019 at 12:15 • Filed to: None

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I took it to the local cars and coffee on Sat, felt good to drive it instead of use it as a storage shelf.

HammerheadFistpunch > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 12:23

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Curious question: Are you starting to get the “stop 2JZ swapping all the things! Its lazy” crowd yet?  Frankly I think they are idiots.  No one is screaming at the LS swappers.

random001 > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 12:25

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I want it.

BeauM > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 12:27

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Sorta.  I do think it’s more commonplace now.  People still dig it in person though.

WilliamsSW > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 12:31

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Lol at the thought of taking all the time to swap in a motor that never belonged in a car, making all the necessary adaptations and fabrications, and then being called lazy for doing that. 

Spaceball-Two > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 12:32

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You going to take the Fox body out in the snow today?

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 12:35

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I think 2JZ/LS swaps are dumb when they’re done just to “be cool”. Too many people swap them in place of an engine that could easily have made more power cheaper than the swap alone cost.

Now cars like this or my friend’s LS swapped Tempest sedan are cool and get respect from me.

For me it’s a car by car thing, if you swap you 400hp whatever for a stock 300 hp LS, you are either looking to be cool, or have too much money to burn. If you swap your 4 cyl Tempest for an LS using JY parts, I wanna know more.

HammerheadFistpunch > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/04/2019 at 12:42

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nuts to that. if a guy wants to go to great lengths to put an iron duke in a C6. all power to him.

Alfalfa > WilliamsSW 02/04/2019 at 12:47

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This, so hard. Any engine swap is quite a bit of work, people who say o therwise are generally elitist builders who think everyone has a shop and kn ows how to weld, or keyboard warriors pretending.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/04/2019 at 13:04

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There could still be wisdom in LS or 2JZ swapping, especially in the case of LS swapping you get access to an enormous catalog of aftermarket parts and countless resources. So perhaps it’s cheaper to get your 300hp LS to 500hp than it is to get your 400hp to that same 500hp.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 13:05

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I think LS swappers get plenty of flack too, haha.

I’m personally of the Turboyota school of thought, it’s a great engine, makes great power, what’s the problem?

BeauM > Spaceball-Two 02/04/2019 at 13:15

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No but I should!  Traffic was horrible this AM

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 13:23

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I see it’s pre-emptively called abomination. (I’m all about six in a row, or in a boxer, as I have one of each) I wasn’t raised on the V8, but I find those who were to be religious fundamentalists about it. Ever get yelled at by knuckledraggers for hating America?

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 13:24

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Also that car is glorious,  good job.

Matt Nichelson > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 13:28

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As an owner (along with my mother) of a 1966 Mustang, I love what you’ve done with yours . Ours started out with the straight 6. We did a swap, but it was just to a 302. Yours is unique and for that I commend you. 

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 13:33

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Yea, but the Nismo RS beside you. (I can sell by the seeing some of the seats)

Discerning > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 14:22

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I would totally put a 4g63 or a K24 in a C5/6/7

BeauM > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 02/04/2019 at 14:36

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Yeah, a lot :)

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > BeauM 02/04/2019 at 14:38

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Well then just stop hating America,  get 8 under that hood before we lose the war. 

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > HammerheadFistpunch 02/04/2019 at 16:06

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See that would be cool, just because it goes against the norm.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/04/2019 at 16:09

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This is also true. Sadly it seems many people swap for sake of swapping, many times taking a power hit, just to have that LS/2JZ.

If it’s done for sake of legitimate gains, lack of aftermarket, or to do something different (like a 2JZ in a Mustang), I’m all for it.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/04/2019 at 16:29

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I don’t hear about your scenario too often, if at all. It seems like a very odd thing to do, haha. But then I’m not often looking for swaps of that nature.

Another argument, if they did on their own, in their own garage or a friends garage, I don’t care what swap they did, if it’s a func t ioning engine swap, that’s impressive no matter the swap.

I will of course always be mad if they ruin perfectly good original, rare cars. haha.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/04/2019 at 16:43

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Seems to happen pretty often around here. That last one I encountered the guy had a 350whp 240sx ( SR20 swapped ), he suddenly decided he needed an LS swap so he could get more attention, and swapped in a 4.8L LS motor. Even after mild mods it was only making 300whp, the car became hard to drive and was slower than before the LS. 

I agree, swaps are always more interesting when the person did it themselves. That’s why I have a lot of respect for my friend’s LS Tempest, he took an un-loved 4 door 63 Tempest and stuffed a 5.3L LS/5-speed manual combo in it with a Ford 9" rear end. He did all the fab/wiring/mounting/etc on his own in his little garage.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/05/2019 at 08:42

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That sounds like an awesome swap! Haha.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/05/2019 at 10:04

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It is. I got the pleasure of helping him with some parts of it.

It was pretty on par with the SC 3.8L/5-speed I swapped into an RX7.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/05/2019 at 10:12

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Oh nice, coincidentally I just watched the regular car reviews on the Buick Regal GS with that engine. And I was thinking to myself that it would be a cool swap into, well.... anything but a FWD Regal.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/05/2019 at 10:19

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Ford 3.8l out of a Thunderbird Super Coupe. It was roughly 450hp.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/05/2019 at 10:26

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Oh nice! Not the 3.8 I had assumed, haha.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/05/2019 at 12:08

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I should have specified, most people make the same assumption. No worries.

That car was a case of having a shell sitting around, having a freshly rebuilt/built 3.8L sitting in the shop, and deciding that building a drift car would be a fun family project.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/05/2019 at 13:07

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drifting a hobby the whole family can enjoy :D

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 02/05/2019 at 16:01

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Sadly it became a burden and I dumped it before it wrecked us.

I did get to drive it when it was finished, HOLY HELL that car was a riot!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 02/05/2019 at 16:04

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I bet!

I wish I could’ve held onto the 3.5EB and it’s electronics when I totaled my SHO, would’ve been an awesome swap into any number of things, especially mid engine platforms as it’s a transverse setup.