What is the strangest engine swap you've seen?
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Wasn't that in hot rod magazine? '41 Plymouth truck maybe?
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I've seen a 64 F100 with a 455 olds in it.
Back in high school I bought a 72 cougar with a blown up 351 Cleveland in it. Sold it to another student that had a mercury something,I think it was a Monterey but don't quote me. He wrecked the mercury. Pulled the FE out and put it in the cougar. I think it was a 390. But mercury had some odd sizes bach then like 406,410 etc.
I remember it being an FE...
I remember it being an FE...
Yeah, I advocated for a higher performance one, but $.
Still, it would bark tires into 2nd, and a stock 240D won’t bark tires on polished concrete so it was an improvement .
People were putting hot Mazda engines in those Kia-made Festivas too.
1993 Buick Roadmaster with a FWD 4.3 Diesel engine and manual transaxle
I guess this was fairly common, but freaked me out when I saw it - a fellow from high school had swapped a Corvair flat-6 into an air-cooled Beetle.
It had a custom cage protruding out the back to accommodate the extra length.
It had a custom cage protruding out the back to accommodate the extra length.
Being from NZ, all our engine swaps will seem weird. Best in our area when I was a teenager was a Fordson pickup with a flathead V8. Done as a bet, because of course it would be impossible to fit a V8 in the snub nose Fordson. So the engine gearbox rear end was done dragster style and fitted in the rear....the radius rods were brought up to the front engine mount, and a tow coupling fitted...then a crossmember fitted with a towball. Six straight pipes out the back, it was really cool to my eyes.
I had a CA Bedford van with a Vanguard Six engine and gearbox, Vauxhall Cresta rear end. American viewers will know that engine from the Triumph TR6. One of my customers had her Volvo 244 engine fail down country in a remote area. She stayed in town a few days and then drove home after the local garage had fitted another engine. What they had fitted was a Nissan LD28. These are a diesel version of the 6 cyl L series engines. I don't know why they fitted that, maybe it was all they had, but it was a good conversion, and they ran it for many years with hardly any problems.
I had a CA Bedford van with a Vanguard Six engine and gearbox, Vauxhall Cresta rear end. American viewers will know that engine from the Triumph TR6. One of my customers had her Volvo 244 engine fail down country in a remote area. She stayed in town a few days and then drove home after the local garage had fitted another engine. What they had fitted was a Nissan LD28. These are a diesel version of the 6 cyl L series engines. I don't know why they fitted that, maybe it was all they had, but it was a good conversion, and they ran it for many years with hardly any problems.
Not strange really, but dude in high school had a courier with a 289, flipped the exhaust manifolds and ran the exhaust in front of the motor…
Also not even a swap but a Mazda Rotary pickup.
Also not even a swap but a Mazda Rotary pickup.
I had one someone stuck in a 70 elcamino. 7.7-1 compression,tiny cam, 624 heads that don't flow,no nickle block so the bores wear fast. Put a set of 186 heads and a comp 268 cam in it. Ran much better but the low stall converter and 2.73 gears still killed any low end power.
The 292 had the exhaust that went around the front
Maybe, but it was a 289with the manifolds flipped.
toyota v12 in an old x5
Putting a Mopar engine in a GM doesn’t seem to rile anyone up that much. Now when someone puts a GM engine in a Mopar, all hell breaks loose! THAT’S BLASPHEMY! (I happen to agree with that, but I’m biased.)Y'all have come up with some good ones so far. The 360 Dodge in a trans am is...well it's definitely odd. Keep em coming
I saw some you tuber put a Cummins I believe into a recent eco boost Mustang .
I believe that it has been done plenty of times, but I saw a Mercury Bobcat with a 302 in it. I couldn’t get past it being a Mercury Bobcat and it wasn’t very nice looking, but it was interesting. I also remember a Chevy Luv with a 350 in it cruising up and down the street in Clarksville, AR. on Friday and Saturday nights. This was from my days as a teenager when cruising was still a thing. The Chevy Luv looked good and had nice white paint with blue stripes. I’m sure there are plenty of details that I can’t recall, but I remember thinking how great that little truck looked.
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