if only I had some spare change
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/113152467117
Now Here's An Engine Ripe For Transplanting
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mafumoto
, Aug 09 2018 01:09 PM
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Posted 09 August 2018 - 07:17 PM
Rs3 or rs4 for a vx220 most of the power / noise for exotic sound and performance without needing to sell a family member 
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Posted 09 August 2018 - 07:21 PM
Rs3 or rs4 for a vx220 most of the power / noise for exotic sound and performance without needing to sell a family member
I'll second that amen
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Posted 09 August 2018 - 09:41 PM
where is Maxr?
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 03:40 AM
You can keep all your fancy engines. Without all the traction control systems, suitable suspension & beefed up drive shafts etc etc, you will be creating issues everywhere. Spend an extra £30k on a whole car that's been damaged. You'll spend that in no time trying to make it fit in a VX & sorting out problems, which you will fail at. The manufacturer would have spent millions on testing & designing out problems.
Then you can just strip off all the beautiful carbon, extruded & bonded aluminium body panels & chuck them. Bin the beautiful carbon & alcantara interior & finally refit your VX body over the top....Simples!
Or in Joe's case, buy a flymo hover mower. Have it 3D scanned, scale it up & print it out to form the bodywork. Oh yeah, add a lotus badge & drive it like a bell end. Joe, did you really have your teeth whitened to match the gold firewall in your car? That's hardcore!
Then you can just strip off all the beautiful carbon, extruded & bonded aluminium body panels & chuck them. Bin the beautiful carbon & alcantara interior & finally refit your VX body over the top....Simples!
Or in Joe's case, buy a flymo hover mower. Have it 3D scanned, scale it up & print it out to form the bodywork. Oh yeah, add a lotus badge & drive it like a bell end. Joe, did you really have your teeth whitened to match the gold firewall in your car? That's hardcore!
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 03:45 AM
thats how i know you dont read threads 
there is no gold in my engine bay. I bloody hate that chavvy crap!!! i think it should be banned
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 03:49 AM
So your teeth are naturally Gold?
...get some sleep!
...get some sleep!
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 03:56 AM
im at work!
whats your excuse?
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 04:25 AM
Replacing engines is very rewarding when your a budding engineer what else would you spend your money on
And some gold thrown in for good measure
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 04:45 AM
This is a lotus Elise with a VX front end & a Ferrari V8 355 engine fitted. I think another engineer had too much Time on their hands! Lol
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 05:21 AM
I bet you'd love to take it racing tho
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 06:36 AM
I bet you'd love to take it racing tho
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....LOL.
No, It's not my car. I did go & look at it, but the mapping was awful. It made my ears bleed!
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 08:52 AM
Does somebody know what happened to the Ferrotus car? Was ages for sale at that dealer...
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 11:48 AM
Did they solve the problem where it kept shearing the input shaft at random?
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 07:36 PM
Pick an engine that does not differ too much in weight and size but brings the reliability amd more advanced performance and would argue all day it's better than a highly strung version of the oem lump
Changing to inline may bring more issues?
My old original renault 5 gt turbo 1.8 20vt conversion is still on the original conversion / box / diff and other than turbo upgrade is now hill climbing with 350 bhp going strong. I got the spri gs / damper adjusted with the weight and power upgrade and they are still on also
Over 50k miles covered and plenty of track, drag strip abuse
Changing to inline may bring more issues?
My old original renault 5 gt turbo 1.8 20vt conversion is still on the original conversion / box / diff and other than turbo upgrade is now hill climbing with 350 bhp going strong. I got the spri gs / damper adjusted with the weight and power upgrade and they are still on also
Over 50k miles covered and plenty of track, drag strip abuse
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