Think about it, the GM parts catalog is soon to offer a mid-engine drivetrain with GM reliability and serviceability. The market for mid-engine resto-mods is about to boom!
Think about it, the GM parts catalog is soon to offer a mid-engine drivetrain with GM reliability and serviceability. The market for mid-engine resto-mods is about to boom!
OK, I snuck a Viper prototype in there...
The Alpine A110 illustrated above is not mid engined. I has the engine hanging off the rear of the transaxle just like the Renault R8 with which it shares all of the mechanism. And the value has already bloomed far above "buy it now" territory
Looks like I bought my X1/9 well 15 years ago
Will we see fake Corvette kits for Fieros? That is the real question!
I don't see how the C8 engine/trans could fit into any of the cars pictured without major surgery that would move the passenger compartment too far forward. These cars are mostly transverse or rear engine.
Now something like a 917 or Superformance GTR kit, on the other hand... Assuming GM offers a stand-alone harness for the transmission, something like that could be interesting. A car with the same power but without the weight adding constraints of a production car.
The Lotus Esprit came with a V8, correct?
Many of these cars wouldn't survive a C8 powertrain being put into them, if they could even fit. The X1/9 or Europa would be quickly torn apart by that kind of power and the AW11 and Lotus Esprit wouldn't be far behind. Using a C8 transaxle with some kind of lower-powered engine (maybe a more pedestrian LS variant) in an Esprit could work, but it would be a shame to switch away from an H-pattern in that car.
Don't we already have the FWD LS engine that nobody wants?
I was thinking about collector values relative to mid engines from the original post, not engine swap options. Of all pictured only the Corvair and the Esprit are large enough to hold the bulk of a longitudinal V8. SofaKing extended the wheelbase of his Europa to fit an LS and a driver.
Robbie said:Don't we already have the FWD LS engine that nobody wants?
We already have a FWD LS that transverse transmissions can't handle.
I'm just waiting for the Flyin Miata mid engine conversion.
Exomotive needs to do a new chassis that uses the mioter running bits, but set up for a mid engine drivetrain..
In reply to pinchvalve :
If you had included a De Tomaso Pantera you would've nailed my history of ownership...
nderwater said:
Rear engined, not mid engined...
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