Black Bug
Well-Known Forum User
What with all the V8 talk going down - in particular American blocks - I've been been wondering about the other options, perhaps from closer to home. It strikes me that there are 3 hybrid engine camps. Big US Iron, High Tech Japanese and Misc. It's the Misc that I'm more interested in for the sake of this thread, particularly engines that are vaguely commonplace in the UK.
Classic homegrown engine prowess seems to take the form of straight 6 and V12 from the stables of Aston Martin and Jaguar. I doubt there are many AM engines knocking around for reasonable cost, but Jag engines are pretty plentiful. I know of at least one Z with a Jag V12 shoved smartly under the bonnet.
Moving over the channel there's the Germans and Italians with a nice selection of 6, 8 and 12 pots. I'm a pretty big fan of BMW engines, V12 would be nice but has sump pan issues which can be worked around by using a dry sump, however the later engines are pretty damn complicated. Something that's very leftfield would be VWs W12 motor.
Only a very brief start but let's see what you can come up with that's a little different and the reasons you'd consider doing that engine swap instead of some Detriot iron!
Cheers,
Rob
Classic homegrown engine prowess seems to take the form of straight 6 and V12 from the stables of Aston Martin and Jaguar. I doubt there are many AM engines knocking around for reasonable cost, but Jag engines are pretty plentiful. I know of at least one Z with a Jag V12 shoved smartly under the bonnet.
Moving over the channel there's the Germans and Italians with a nice selection of 6, 8 and 12 pots. I'm a pretty big fan of BMW engines, V12 would be nice but has sump pan issues which can be worked around by using a dry sump, however the later engines are pretty damn complicated. Something that's very leftfield would be VWs W12 motor.
Only a very brief start but let's see what you can come up with that's a little different and the reasons you'd consider doing that engine swap instead of some Detriot iron!
Cheers,
Rob