Which one or why?
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Originally Posted by rockville,Jun 25 2009, 08:43 AM
Mr. E.G.,
What about those lame AC-Aces with a Ford V8?
What about those lame AC-Aces with a Ford V8?
Ariel Atoms w/ Honda or GM engines?
Maseratis w/ Ferrari engines?
McLaren F1 w/ Mercedes engine?
Honda Passport w/ Isuzu engine?
Pantera w/ Ford engine?
As long as it fits, is reliable, and a good engine w/ a well-engineered transplant, I'm OK.
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Originally Posted by Saki GT,Jun 24 2009, 07:19 PM
If it was a toy, I could live with the rotary engine in an RX-7.
but I could stll be totally 
with an FD+LSx 
C5s look soo dated, an FD looks more modern in comparison
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Yeah that was a Bimmer motor with a gold plated engine bay 
Still my favorite supercar along with the Carerra GT
After surfing that rx-7/ls1 forum those swaps on average cost 10k. Alot of fabrication but the parts are easily available.
Contrary to what ZX-10 says, those rx-7 interiors don't hold up very well over time. Flaps break or plastic dohicky things come off. Just look at some of those threads and youll see what I'm talking about. People are custom making their own stuff by taking pieces of plywood smoothing it and wrapping leather around it.
Still my favorite supercar along with the Carerra GT
After surfing that rx-7/ls1 forum those swaps on average cost 10k. Alot of fabrication but the parts are easily available.
Contrary to what ZX-10 says, those rx-7 interiors don't hold up very well over time. Flaps break or plastic dohicky things come off. Just look at some of those threads and youll see what I'm talking about. People are custom making their own stuff by taking pieces of plywood smoothing it and wrapping leather around it.
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Originally Posted by Christople,Jun 25 2009, 09:05 AM
Contrary to what ZX-10 says, those rx-7 interiors don't hold up very well over time. Flaps break or plastic dohicky things come off. Just look at some of those threads and youll see what I'm talking about. People are custom making their own stuff by taking pieces of plywood smoothing it and wrapping leather around it.
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Originally Posted by Christople,Jun 25 2009, 08:05 AM
Yeah that was a Bimmer motor with a gold plated engine bay
Still my favorite supercar along with the Carerra GT
After surfing that rx-7/ls1 forum those swaps on average cost 10k. Alot of fabrication but the parts are easily available.
Contrary to what ZX-10 says, those rx-7 interiors don't hold up very well over time. Flaps break or plastic dohicky things come off. Just look at some of those threads and youll see what I'm talking about. People are custom making their own stuff by taking pieces of plywood smoothing it and wrapping leather around it.
Still my favorite supercar along with the Carerra GT
After surfing that rx-7/ls1 forum those swaps on average cost 10k. Alot of fabrication but the parts are easily available.
Contrary to what ZX-10 says, those rx-7 interiors don't hold up very well over time. Flaps break or plastic dohicky things come off. Just look at some of those threads and youll see what I'm talking about. People are custom making their own stuff by taking pieces of plywood smoothing it and wrapping leather around it.
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Originally Posted by rockville,Jun 25 2009, 06:43 AM
Mr. E.G.,
What about those lame AC-Aces with a Ford V8?
What about those lame AC-Aces with a Ford V8?
Awesomeness should not be a factor here. An FD with a v8 would be plenty awesome just the same, but it still falls under my lameness factor of having to rely on another manufacturer to make your car worth a crap.
Ok, maybe I should break this down a little further.
Swapping a powerful engine into a car that has a completely shit engine is one degree of lameness. (let's say you put a Corvette engine in a geo metro)
Swapping a good engine into a car that has a different type of good engine is mega ultra cop-out lame. (swapping a v8 into an rx7)
lol. I realize I am not being logical here (feel free to mock me for this). I can't quite put it into words, but I feel the same way when I see the M3 Rahal Letterman BMW M3 in the ALMS series.
All of the other cars in the GT2 class really are modified versions of a production car and they still retain many of the car's original shortcomings. This M3 abomination has been converted to a wishbone front suspension setup using entirely different chassis pickup points, has a cut up unibody to accommodate the rear wheels and custom suspension pickup points, has been converted to run a transaxle, etc.
If they win it's like "Wow, cool... you guys won with a car built to much higher specs than the rest of the cars in the class."