If money were no issue, whats your ideal motor?

Jaguar 3.8 Liter. Such a beautiful Engine!

 

The new Looneymum 350 Flathead, when whoever is making them now can get their shit together with the sleeve placement issues .

 

Sometimes money has a not-so-funny way of changing the way we do stuff. I doubt I'd ever go exotic. But just for kicks & grins, if $$$ was no issue I'd opt for a '42 Ford convertible, dressed like an early 50s hotrod. Second choice would be a '41 Ford vert, made up same way.

 

Blown, injected 426 or larger HEMI. It's gotta have Mickey Thompson valve covers and the finned Weiand pump drive timing cover. Hilborn injector scoop. Block ground smooth. Aluminum heads polished to look like chrome. Chrome zoomies. Runs on alcohol. No, hell with that - NITRO!

 

322 nailhead with plenty of speed equipment. marty i think you should put that nailhead you have in the nash!! i remember you sayin you didnt have the cash for an adaptor, but i'd sell things off to be able to have a nailhead in my ride!!

 

I would have to say 2009 Corvette ZR1 engine 620hp and good milage to boot.

 

A blown ardun flathead for me

 

A 429 Boss has always been my dream engine.

 

A badass nailhead or a 426 hemi, but I got a cool little 283 with a glide

 

the one in the background

 

Nice to see I'm not the only one - great choice

 

Good lord I have a list longer than is reasonable (a few I have owned because they fell in my lap) but the ultimate for me would be one of the turbine engines that they outlawed at Indy.

Always wanted one as long as they have been around.

 

Gas or electric?

 

Blown Hemi-(if I had a Willys, or early Mopar coupe/pickup), Ardun Flathead-(in any early Ford car/pickup). Since money usually is an issue-Briggs and Stratton 5hp.

 

1954 packard straight 8 359cui, 9 main, Aluminum head, custom cam, bigger bore, stroker kit, custom headers, 4-71 supercharger, probably a single 4b carb or a few dueces would be cool. And a good cruisin tranny to back it up.

 

most anything made by Harry Miller

 

I have always wanted to own a 68 or 69 426 Blown Chrysler Hemi..with all the bells and whistles..mega HP.and everything to back it up..$$

 

A full tilt Lamar Walden 409 punched out to what ever cubic inches he deems fit, then I'd like to have a Johnny Thomas Racing Engines blown 383 Chevy

 

1.Ford 427 SOHC
2.Ardud flathead w/S.C.O.T. supercharger
3.Ford 429 boss
If money were no issue i would be able to have one of each,I'm greedy.LOL.

 

If money were no issue ! Bugatti 8 Liter W-16 quad turbo - Power: 1001 Hp
Why you ask ? Why not ?

 

Doesn't get any better than one of these.........

 

An all aluminum, 10,000 RPM screaming, misbehaving Scat V4.

 

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kieth black alumuinum HEMI blown,old school hillborn injection for my 34 ford,,,please !,,

 

A Leo Goosen aluminum overhead cam Studebaker V8.

In '52 or '53 Studebaker decided to promote their new V8 by fielding a Stude powered Indy team. They forked over $250,000 to JC Agajanian to head the effort, and he turned to the old master Leo Goosen (of Miller / Offy fame) to make the motor raceworthy. Goosen created a 4-6 sets of beautiful overhead cam aluminum heads.

The 2 Stude cars never finished above #20 in a couple years of Indy competion and the program was scrapped. A couple pairs of the heads survived, and here's the kicker -- one set actually made it into a hot rod in 1960. Engine builder Gale Banks got one set of heads when he was 18 and used them to build a motor for his friend's '32 Plymouth coupe. Whereabouts unknown. I pray that coupe is still in a barn somewhere, cuz man-o-man.

 

471 ardun

 

just a stock 348, I don't ask for much

 

If money was no option, I'd get my hands dirty inside all kinds of different motors - Stude V8s, Hudson sixes, Packard V8s, early Hemis, and I'd have a stockpile of Pontiac 455's enough for a couple dozen cars at least.

If money was enough of an option to only be able to choose one motor, it would depend some on the car it's going in, but likely be a Pontiac -

 

For my shoebox would this engine be perfect

 

All of them.
Twin turbo rb26dett
blown bbc
big inch small block chevy
toyota nascar engine
supra 2jz with a 90mm turbo
cross ram max wedge
oh how I love to burn dinosaurs.