DIY_EFI Digest V5 #937

[William Shurvinton]

V8 in a sprite, now that even beats the guy on UK version of scrapheap wars
who put a jag V12 in a trike.

Hrrrm, maybe I should buy that $300 Rx-7 and pop a small block in.
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From: Dave Williams <dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: DIY_EFI Digest V5 #937


>
> -> Try putting a SBF into a 68 Triumph GT6, the RX7 is a breeze.  I have
> -> lots of room at the front of the engine bay since the engine is
> -> stuffed back into the firewall.  Footwell room though... good thing I
> -> have small feet :)
>
>  I put a 400 Chevy small block and a Powerglide into a '72 Spitfire,
> does that count?  <grin>  I notched the firewall boxes too.  The
> automatic transmission required from frame surgery, but it was free.  A
> friend's girlfriend could weld, and she cut the rails out one at a time
> where they wrapped around the stock trans, flipped them the other way,
> and welded them back in.  Then we laid papier-mache over the
> transmission and several layers of Wal-Mart fiberglass cloth and resin
> to make a new transmission tunnel.  Form-fit when we removed the paper.
>
>  It never saw the road, unfortunately.  The buddy who owned it went off
> to college and lost interest, and instead of selling it to me, he gave
> it to the school's engineering department, who removed the V8 and put in
> some junkyard bits to convert it to an "electric car."  Which proved to
> me there was plenty of political correctness but no intelligence at
> Oklahoma State...
>
>  The RX7 is a breeze, though.
>
>
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