We've seen turbo'd, supercharged, v8 and many other S2000 mods but would an NSX engine work, my friend recently built a kit car using a 3.2 NSX engine which got me thinking. Anyone know of any attempts?

 

Wrong orientation is it not?

 

No! (IIRC)

 

im thinking th weight at the front end may cause a few handleing problems but i could be wrong and anything is possible

 

Anything? Even fitting an engine that "faces" the wrong way?

 

It has been done but only on a track car. Track car had red/yellow livery and pics are in the american section

 

yes.

Cars are only bits of metal, nuts and bolts. Anything is possible with the right mix of ingenuity, madness, knowledge and cash.

For example:

My friend took (and chopped up) the quattro drive train from an audi TT, a Mondeo 2.0 Zetec engine, T35 turbo from a "big turbo" escort coswroth and put it all into a MkIII Fiesta XR2i.

4wd, 300bhp 1991 fiesta, that looked like a standard XR2i.

 

NSX is only sideways due to the gearbox. the engine block itself can be any way you want.
aslong as you have a way to couple the gearbox you intend to use and the NSX block together, then no reason why you cant fit one to anything.

 

How does it face the wrong way?

Surely it's transverse mounted in an NSX above the rear wheels, much like the way FWD cars are transverse mounted at the front. In a front-engined RWD car like the S, you need it to drive the prop shaft, which means you just turn it 90 degrees and mount it longditudionally(sp?) like the S engine. Pleanty of room I'd have thought.

You wouldn't be able to use the NSX gearbox, but that's not what was being asked.

 

Miss the point boulevard - they both turn clockwise, so yes, in theory, it can.

The problem is, the heads on a C32 are very bulky, and low due the 90° included angle and the plenum would need modification, since the air enters at the flywheel end.

The J37 is OTOH SOHC, extremely light (about the same as an F20c) very compact and has a 60° included angle: