Engine Swap Depot Shirt

We have just released our first shirt. We hope to have more very soon. Click on the images to be taken directly to this product in our shop.

25/09/2008

Electric Motor Powered Saturn Sky

Advanced Mechanical Products offers a totally electric Saturn Sky conversion for around $25,000. You will have to provide the car but if you have the money they will replace your engine with 2 electric motors (one for each back wheel) and a bunch of lithium phosphate batteries. Current performance numbers shows the Sky goes 0-60 in 5.9 secs, a 150 mile range and has a top speed of 90mph. Currently the offer is only available for people living in Cincinnati, Ohio area but I am sure if you are...

15/08/2008

Engine Swaps Are Green?

Gas2.org has posted an article about Engine RePower, a site which advocates swapping an engine instead of buying a new car to reduce the amount of energy used to recycle your old car (because of blown engine). I do not know enough about the recycling procedures for current cars so I am unable to say [...]

31/03/2008

Engine Swap Discrimination

It seems Jalopnik writer Ben Wojdyla has some issues with Ralf Becker’s 1971 Pontiac LeMans. If you remember Ralf swapped the OEM engine with a Supra 7M-GTE. Sometimes you have to chock these type of posts to comment bait. Our take has always been there is no taboo in engine swaps. Remember variety is the [...]

12/03/2008

Ebay Find: Datsun Swaps

1973 Datsun 510 with RB26DE Swap used in SCCA Drift 1974 Datsun 260Z with Small Block Swap 1977 Datsun Fairlady Z with RB26DET Swap

14/11/2007

Ecotec 750HP Formula

We were able to run across a document detailing GM’s quest to build a 800 HP Ecotec engine published by Turbo & High-tech Perfomance Magazine in March of 2002.. GM assembled a team of engine builders and racers headed by Stephen Bothwell to see if they could reach this high power level with many outsiders [...]

16/10/2007

Engine Swap Depot Downtime

There is a possibility readers may experience some downtime around Sept.21 as we are doing some DNS changes. This downtime will be kept to a minimum. We appreciate your understanding.

20/09/2007