Where is the strangest place you've put an engine?

I have a hypothetical build in my head that puts an engine under a vehicle normally known for being capable offroad. Has anyone done anything crazy along those lines? I know there are locost builders here, but I feel this is a little bit difference being that I'm starting with an existing chassis.

i've got a volvo i4 turbo in an s10 :)...

er anyway... this is GRM... weird engine swaps are the norm here. ;-)

I once had a two-stroke engine (and the disassembled motorcycle that it belonged to) in my bedroom.

I once put an engine in my pocket. (2 stroke R/C engine)

i once helped lift a fully assembled vw tdi into the rear hatch of a new beetle, the top half of one piston was no longer in its proper place so it turned out to be a parts engine though.

FZR 1000 engine on my kitchen table over the winter, great centerpiece

I put a BMC A-series engine in the back of a jeep wrangler.......it was just to get the lump home from the shop that built my engine.

I just put a SBC, a 12a Rotary, a 500cc Yamaha, and a Power Products 4 hp in the tack room on my parents farm. The horses will just have to put their crap somewhere else.

In the dishwasher........

My g/f cleaned and painted the engine for her Volvo 1800ES on an engine stand in her sunroom (plus the entire front suspension assembly).

In before Guido pops in and says "In Uranus."

Put a 1600 VW Pancake in the back of a Samurai. For transport. What do you mean by "under?"

Yeah, what's this "under" stuff? I once had an SBC in my sun room for a few months. Tex Racing Super T-10 on my living room table. Then I met Jane and it all went away.

In college, I parked my CB400F in my kitchen, because it was hard to start when it was cold.

LT1 from a '97 Fire Bird in the back of a Jeep Wrangler to and from the machine shop.

At least half a dozen Briggs & Strattons from 3.5 to 12 hp have been in dishwashers at just about every house I've lived in.

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I've had an air cooled VW1600 in the bed of an '80 chevy 1/2 ton pickup to take home from the local salvage yard...

While still installed in the 68 convertible bug

Making it a mid engine vehicle.

It will take some doing to beat Anson's twin engined Sirocco

I put a Northstar in the back of an N600 (mocked up, never actually mounted

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: In before Guido pops in and says "In Uranus."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU&feature=related

454 in the front of a 1965 VW BUG.

I'm looking less for being competitive and more an exercise in engineering. Built the way I'm thinking, it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to build, but I think it could be a really fun vehicle.

We rebuilt both of our t-10 trannies on the terrace of our room on the tenth floor of a Mariott.

jrw1621 wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: In before Guido pops in and says "In Uranus."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU&feature=related

I was gonna say, 'In the butt?' as a reference to this clip, but you chose the classier tactic. I doff my cap to you, good sir.

I mounted a datsun L24 in a dodge dakota front clip. The sheet metal for the adjacent firewall came from a off a freezer (sears goldstar upright.) The hood used to be the skin of a water heater.

[NOTE: This project is still in progress]