Batman’s Tumbler Runs Off Detroit Power

It seems with all the sophisticated technology Lucius Fox had at his fingertips he still decided to use dependable American small block to power Bruce Wayne’s Tumbler. The movie required the vehicle to all the stunts so it had to do a 0-60 in 5 seconds, be able to do 100 mph, and light enough to be able to do 30 foot jumps. Because the car uses a tube chassis and carbon fiber panels it weights 5,000 pounds. All I could find was that the engine is a 5.7L small blocked. Doing some simple...

17/08/2008 | 1 Kommentar

B18C Mini

Found at HKS’s 35th birthday was a British Motor Company Mini with some swapped Honda power. Sitting in the back is a Honda B18C engine with individual throttle bodies. Obviously the car has been switched to rear wheel drive for engine postion. JPCNews reports that it has a HKS F-Con V Pro, Spoon suspension products, and Buddy Club P1 wheels. Source: JCPNews via Jalopnik

23/05/2008

BMW 535 Swap Video Tutorial

GeezersGarage is back with segment 12 of his on going tutorial series of swapping a LH6 (LSX family) into a old BMW. Again his focus is on factory parts to keep the cost down. Make sure to check out the rest of his videos here.

01/11/2007

Bentley Swaps First Veyron Engine

(image links to Veyron wiki page) We posed the question a while back and it seems Bentley stepped up to the plate first. There is no confirmation on if this car will be put in production but it seems there will be at least one Arnage using a 1K HP FI engine. I still hold on to [...]

25/10/2007

BoostLimit.com

As many can tell we have been running a banner over on the right side for BoostLimit.com. BoostLimit was launched Sept.1 and is a digg.com like site for automotive and motorcycle news. Users are able to submit and vote on links submitted by users and top rated links will appear on the front page. We [...]

26/09/2007