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1. Electric Mercedes 190SL

Thursday, 14 August 2025 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Electric Mercedes 190SL

Electric Classic Cars (ECC) converted this 1958 Mercedes 190SL to electric at their company in the UK. The car would have come from the factory with a 1.9 L inline-four producing approximately 100 hp (73 kW). Now it is powered by a Zonic 180 ...
Electric Classic Cars (ECC) converted this 1958 Mercedes 190SL to electric at their company in the UK. The car would have come from the factory with a 1.9 L inline-four producing approximately 100 hp (73 kW). Now it is powered by a Zonic 180 ...

2. Electric 1974 Mercedes 350SL

Tuesday, 21 May 2024 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Electric 1974 Mercedes 350SL

This 1974 Mercedes 350SL (R107) originally came with a naturally aspirated 3.5 L M116 V8. In 2019 the restoring company SLShop sent the convertible to Electric Classic Cars (ECC) for an electric conversion. There the company installed a HPEVS ...
This 1974 Mercedes 350SL (R107) originally came with a naturally aspirated 3.5 L M116 V8. In 2019 the restoring company SLShop sent the convertible to Electric Classic Cars (ECC) for an electric conversion. There the company installed a HPEVS ...

3. Toyota AE86 with an Electric Motor

Wednesday, 31 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Toyota AE86 with an Electric Motor

Toyota AE86 with an Electric Motor | This 1986 Toyota Corolla AE86 is owned by Omead Moinee. The project made its big debut at SEMA 2015. Omead built the car to compete in drift events and show off EV technology. The car is powered by a WarP ...
Toyota AE86 with an Electric Motor | This 1986 Toyota Corolla AE86 is owned by Omead Moinee. The project made its big debut at SEMA 2015. Omead built the car to compete in drift events and show off EV technology. The car is powered by a WarP ...

4. ICON is Building an Electric 1949 Mercury

Tuesday, 30 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / ICON is Building an Electric 1949 Mercury

ICON is Building an Electric 1949 Mercury | Jonathan Ward recently shared a video tour where he talked about their current and future projects. One interesting project he discussed was a 1949 Mercury coupe that will turn into an ICON Derelict. ...
... It will feature twin electric motors, electric steering and electric AC. The car will ride on a custom Art Morrison chassis with a rear independent suspension. Jonathan starts discussing the project at 4:40 in the video below. Source: ICON4x4 ...

5. Milner Racing LRM-1 with a LS3

Monday, 29 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Milner Racing LRM-1 with a LS3

Milner Racing LRM-1 with a LS3 | In 2013 Milner Racing began selling their newest off-road race car called the LRM-1. The project drew from their 30+ years of off-road racing and featured a full space frame chassis with double wishbone fully ...
... diffs in the front and rear. The race car rides on a long travel independent suspension with remote reservoir coilovers all around. Steering is handled by a quick-ratio electric steering rack and stops with WRC 380 mm rotors and six-piston ...

6. VW Beetle with a Honda CBR1000RR Engine

Wednesday, 24 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / VW Beetle with a Honda CBR1000RR Engine

... limited-slip differential. The transmission is controlled via a TransLogic Powershift system with a paddle shifter and displayed on a Koso dash. The Beetle uses electric motor to reverse. The car only weighs 1,433-1,543 lb (650-700 kg) thanks ...
... limited-slip differential. The transmission is controlled via a TransLogic Powershift system with a paddle shifter and displayed on a Koso dash. The Beetle uses electric motor to reverse. The car only weighs 1,433-1,543 lb (650-700 kg) thanks ...

7. American Iron with Swedish Power

Thursday, 11 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / American Iron with Swedish Power

... 3″ into dual 2.25″ Y-section. Robin also installed Summit Racing 3″ electric exhaust cutout to give the exhaust a louder sound at the flip of a button. To keep the gauge console as clean as possible, Robin installed a Summit ...
... vehicles his Father owned was a 1989 Caprice Police cruiser. After the engine broke in the Caprice his Father’s decided to buy another car. His choice came down to either a 1996 Volvo 940 turbo wagon or a 1996 Impala SS. Robin hoped his ...

8. Electric Enfield 8000 Reaches the 9s

Monday, 25 July 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Electric Enfield 8000 Reaches the 9s

Electric Enfield 8000 Reaches the 9s | When we last wrote about Jonny Smith’s Flux Capacitor he was hoping to reach into the 11’s. Back then his Enfield 8000 was powered by 144 custom military grade Lithium-ion cells originally ...
... 400v and changed the differential gearing to 3.0:1. These changes were a great decision because it allowed the little orange car to break the Street-legal EV World Record with a 9.869 sec at 121.73 mph quarter-mile. The previous record was held ...

9. Holden FJ with a BMW V12

Sunday, 24 July 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Holden FJ with a BMW V12

... the five-speed BMW automatic transmission, electric steering column, front and rear suspension. The project so far has taken 18 months. Source: Creative Custom Cars via Build-Threads | 2016-07 | Christopher Christopher | Article | engineswapdepot.com ...
Holden FJ with a BMW V12 | Tony Morphett from Creative Custom Cars unveiled his custom Holden FJ coupe utility at MotorEx 2016. Although the project was not finished it was still creating a lot of buzz. Their impressive metal fabrication was ...

10. 1978 Camaro with a Supercharged LS3

Tuesday, 24 May 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / 1978 Camaro with a Supercharged LS3

... Volvo 240 steering rack, and electric power steering from an Opel Corsa C. The rear suspension is a custom four-link and panhard bar. Source: DriftWorks (build thread) and Autoviitala Drift Team FB page via ESD reader Piotr | 2016-05 ...
1978 Camaro with a Supercharged LS3 | When Finnish drifter Mikko Viitala started looking for a new race car he didn’t want to start from scratch and it had to be different. He met both those goals after finding a 1978 Z28 Camaro which ...