Ford Racing Performance Parts decided to take a Ford Focus RS and stuff a 5.0L Cammer crate motor. Ford decided to start with the RS version because of its sportier Euro appearance. The engine is a DOHC 5.0L V8 modular crate motor putting out 420 BHP and 365 ft.-lbs. torque. Ford Racing Performance Parts sells this engine for $14,995 on their site. The 5.0L cammer motor is based off the 4.6L Mustang Cobra motor. A Tremec five-speed HD transmission and a Ford Racing 8.8 inch differential is...
Ann Arbor’s Washtenaw Community College has a pretty cool automotive program called Custom Cars & Concepts. It was in this program that a group of students took a Ford GT drivetrain and suspension and swapped it into a Ford 500. The Ford 500 was made only for two years and was to fill in the Taurus gap and came front wheel or all wheel drive with a 3.0L V6 producing around 208 horsepower. The supercharged 5.3L ford GT heart puts out around 550 horsepower. You can tell from the pictures...
It seems everyone these days wants to build their own Tumbler. This Tumbler is built by Australian native Grant Hodgson and features a big block Chevy 454 cubic inch motor with a small splash of nitrous for good measure. The base engine puts out 560 horsepower. No telling what the engine can do with a shot of nitrous. Something tells me this is not the last Tumbler we’ll see. Check Jalopnik site for video.
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From Pro-Touring.com comes this great Pantera with a bored and stroked 408 cubic inch small block Ford Windsor making roughly 600hp. Original Panteras came with a 351 cubic inch Cleveland rated around 310 hp. Custom stainless steel headers and exhaust were used. The suspension was upgraded with adjustable coilovers at all four corners and Wilwood brakes. The body has a ton of smoothing and coated in Mercedes silver paint. The floor pans were dropped to add extra room inside the car. Future...
This 1969 Camaro was built for a Pro-touring Forum member for mostly drag racing and looking cool driving down the street. The engine is a LS7 crate motor and will receive some upgrades including a new cam to boost the power output. The transmission will use the Twist Machine 4L65 manumatic. The car has a the full DSE treatment; minitub, subframe, and quadralink suspension.
Prodigy Customs has been doing so many Pro-touring Camaros they are becoming the specialties for this sort of build....
No doubt modders have been daydreaming of using the powerful 3.8L twin-turbo VR38DETT in all kinds of cars since it was announced. Jalopnik has confirmed what appears to be the first GT-R crash in the United States. Unfortunately due to the power of this beast we are going to see more boo-boos resulting in some awesome engines coming up for sale to lucky swappers.
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Straight out of the unique engine swap folder comes the Dolmette motorcycle which is powered by 24 chainsaw engines. The chainsaws put their power to the ground via a single belt drive system. All together the engines make 24 cylinder 1.9 liter engine putting out around 167 horsepower and about 100 ft.lbs. torque.
Dolmar explains the system below better then I can.
The heart of the combined power plant is the central drive belt casing of aluminium construction. As well as encasing the eleven...
The MGB-GT originally came with a 1.8 L inline four cylinder engine producing around 98 horsepower. Enough power to get this little car going but probably not enough for most adventurous types. Dan Master decided he wanted to swap the old engine with a robust Ford 302 V8. The swap conversion was completed by Fast Cars Inc. which specializes in swapping American muscle into British sports cars. There is no exact numbers on horsepower or 0-60 but it is quoted as handling very well and was able...
Jalopnik has a good article written by engine geek Ben Wojdyla talking about the finer details of Ford’s EcoBoost V6. He talks about the advantages of the direct injection and the new exhaust manifold. All these details are very exciting since this engine setup will deliver 340 horsepower and 340 lb-ft torque out of a 3.5L V6 platform. I have high expectations for these engines.
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This V8 engine from a Ferrari 360 Modena sold for $11,000 on ebay motors. This engine is 3.6L and puts out 400 horsepower. Besides a replacement for another Ferrari engine, would you think the unique factor would be worth $11,000 for an Italian swap?
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Colin Masterson knows his way around a S12, which is why he is a co-admin at Club S12 forum. But he is better known for his very unique S12. Colin bought the car in 2004 but didn’t really start to modify it until 2005. That year he swapped out the original interior for a black one, swapped a better condition factory VG30E, and had the body cleaned up and painted.
In 2006 Colin decided to begin turning his car into something very rare, a RB20DET powered S12. Up until that point it had...
One of our readers gave us a heads up on the most recent Cars and Coffee meetup which was posted in the NAGTROC forum. A large diversity of great cars showed up ranging from Porsches to muscle cars to a new GT-R. This purple Datsun 510 stood out in particular because you don’t see too many of these and second it has a swap. It appears to have a very clean SR20DET swap with probably some upgrades such as the Brembo brakes.
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Talk about a tight fit. This Porsche 911 has a supercharge LS1 V8 stuffed in the back replacing the original flat 6. One might think that the V8 would be heavier but thanks to a lot of aluminum the LS1 is lighter then the original engine the driver shaved off around 21 pounds total. No official notes of the horsepower it is putting out but it has to be 400 or more. The owner also stuffed a LS1 in the back of a Porsche 914.
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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...