Anybody else running a strange motor

I love it!

 

that Maserati powered T your talking about is my best friends grandfathers .. it came from an 87 or 88 i think.... and it was free so why not run it . his grandsons building a 57 cad with a mercedes turbo 6 in it . Yours looks sick man .. cant wait to see it finished

 

I remember when they were leaving a very large crowd gathered around it just to hear it, and it wasnt what I expected. It was so quiet.

 

a friend of mine has a v-12 jag in a hudson, was at lone star round up this year, im running a 318 in a 37 ford rat rod.

 

mine's non-traditional - it's a ford! (not a sbc)

 

Baaaaaadddd to the bone. I say, if they don't like it, apply rule #1.

Rule #1 reads: F..k em, just f..k em

 

Does a 455 Buick count? My 401 Nailhead that was originally destined was stolen. This was offered by a friend for cheap, and actually the donor car gave up more parts than originally intended, including the frame.

 

I promise not to tell the O/T cops. Back in the '70s, I had a '58 Bianchina (a Fiat 500 with a more stylish(?) body) that I dropped an Abarth 695 SS mill into the back. Talk about being a road rocket! I used to have fun driving this little monster at 70 mph down the Golden State Freeway (I lived in Beautiful Downtown Burbank at the time), pulling up alongside someone with a much larger car such as a Camaro or Trans-Am (not difficult when this thing was something like 10' long) and flooring it. The look on the other car's driver's faces when I shot away from 'em was memorable.

Back to the topic, which is already in progress...

 

Just mocking up my engine for my 38 Dodge.OHV 230 .Spending the weekend working on the car.Thanks Earl.

 

dude thats badass! is that conversion available now i dont see it on the edgy website?

 

Great looking motor, I would love to see it finished

 

Should have it running this summer.I'll start a build page soon.Working on it all weekend.Post pix tomorrow.Going to roll it out and steam clean it.
Cheers!

 

ive always wanted to run a 2jz-gte. its a twin turbo motor from a toyota supra. can be built to around 800 hp with the stock bottom end. either that or a rb30dett from a nissan skyline. both of those motors are the only import motors that i will allow myself to like. also a 6bt cummins diesel would be sick. i just realized that all three of those are straight sixes. it must mean something!!

 

Try an RB25DET - there are guys in the import scene over here who are topping 1000 HP in race trim. My R33 Skyline daily driver has the naturally aspirated RB25 that only produces 192 HP stock (the single turbo engine has 262 HP and the twin-turbo is under-rated (due to Jap regs) at 290 HP).

 

I want one!

 

Im running a 283 AMC, BUT im GOING to get a 401 stuffed in my little Gangway Monster.

 

tell them that you are more than willing to take engine donations if they do not like what you have.

When you do not use it and they complain say, " I said I would take it, I said nothing about using it."

 

Isn't that more of an "F" head than an OHV? Sure like to see more pictures of the combustion chamber and rockers if you have them.

 

A Four cylinder Cummins turbo diesel????? Very few of the 4's around......

 

Even though I own and drive several of them I am sick to death of seeing small block Chevy motors in everything. I love to see a unique combination of engine and body that also makes sense. Something where the chosen power plant really does fit the way the vehicle is intended to be used better than what was put in it by the factory.

My current toys include a GMC 270 powered '55 1st Suburban. Though its not the original motor I didn't do the swap, but rather bought it that way. Makes a nice if not real fast driver. It doesn't qualify as unique and lots of other guys are running the bigger 302 so its not really very exciting. But its different and I like it.

My most active project is building a 1-ton '54 GMC to pull my trailer. I scored a Cadillac 500 to power this one. Massive torque from a long-lasting smooth running monster. This motor is often suggested in this forum when someone wants lots of power but I don't feel like I see many people decide to try it. It makes as much torque as the early pickup Diesel motors without the smell and noise. It's not going to pull as hard as a new Diesel or go as far on a gallon of fuel, but I prefer listening to a big gas motor over the Diesel any day and realistically I'll never drive this one far enough to justify the added cost of a Cummins or similar swap.

And of course a Caddy powered hot rod is not nearly as unusual as a BMW powered one!

My two-cents is that matching the motor to the use is what makes sense. What may seem strange to others need only make the vehicle better at what you want to accomplish to make that strange motor exactly the right choice.

But then don't be surprised when someone like me questions the choice trying to understand what it is that made that motor the right choice for your vehicle. I'm particularly pointed with I see a 302 or 351 Ford in a Chevy or GMC truck. Those make no sense to me!

 

And you care what they think? Cool setup. F'em if they can't take a joke!

 

I agree with your viewpoint on SBCs. While I acknowledge they are good reliable engines, they're so common they've become boring.
I also generally like the idea of keeping engine swaps "In the family". That said, I also get a kick out of the local hard core Chevy guys who whine when they see an early '50s Chevy over here that has a 351 Windsor in it, (The owner works at a Ford dealership).
Finally, if someone puts a "strange motor" in his car, so what. Its his car and he can do as he wishes. A blown BMW V12 powered rod is way cool and and if it spins up the so-called "Traditionalist Experts", good!

 

I agree 100%. I previously asked the philosophical question in this forum about what a so-called traditionalist would call a guy who takes a Mustang II coupe, throws an Australian Ford 250 inch cross-flow head 6-banger in it, adds a turbo and runs it on propane?

A: Ak Miller! He was one of my childhood heroes, and like Chet Herbert and other hot rodding greats, was always innovating. He built the Mustang in the late '70s.

I find it interesting that this forum for 'traditional hot rodders' has people using S-10 chassis and other modern componentry as a basis for trad builds. While I'd be the last person to ever criticize someone for doing so - I have no issues about it whatsoever - I wish, sometimes, some of the others using this site would not take things sooo seriously.

 

Amen to to that. Its all about having fun and building what you like. I just posted an Izetta with a blown big block & Toronado style transaxle on the Photoshop thread, and that's pretty much how I look at this hobby.

 

Nice to know I'm not alone in my thinking. I remember taking my totally unrestored Jowett Jupiter sports car to a Bob's cruise night on Van Nuys Blvd in L.A. 30 years ago and having all the others there crowded around it, asking questions, and saying how cool it was - a rather ugly looking old British sports car at a hot rod event!

In fact, the only time I ever had somebody say something negative about one of my cars was about three years earlier than the above where a bunch of guys told me my Buick, which had the factory wire wheel covers and pinners on it at the time, didn't fit into the event because it was "for street machines and not low riders"...

...I was one of the organisers of the event in question!

 

229 Odd Fire V6 Chevy. Certainly not traditional, or my preferred choice. However it has sucessfully been to each coast of the US. Many ears hear it as flathead, and eyes are tricked to think it a sbc.

 

Right now I am running and/or own 259 Studebaker, 361 Edsel, 30over 500 Cadillac, 352 Packard, an all aluminum 4OHC Masarati V/6 (its just like the one powering the T but with two cyls. and one carb whacked off) 232 Rambler six cyl. 348 3X2 Chevrolet and recently sold a 386ci White flathead six..So far the most reliable can't kill it engine has been the Studebaker...

 

wow... thats a whole lot of numbers

 

Whats under the hood?
Black and Decker aquarium pump.

 

I didn't read through the entire thread, but I think people are confusing traditional builds with hotrods. IMO I would by no means consider this traditional, however cool and definately a hotrod.