Ralf Becker tired of the German culture of originality in cars and after receiving a free 1972 Pontiac LeMans from a video game promotion decided he wanted to really make a statement. His creation is a turbo Gen 3 Supra inline six running off of 108 octane bio-methanol. He recognizes some car clubs may want … Read more
Take a Nissan Pulsar and give it a Ferrari 3.5L V8 from a F355 and you get this. A decent amount of work went into this engine swap. Anytime you take a FWD car and switch it to a RWD mid-engine setup you are looking at some serious work. Some commenters have stated it has … Read more
I have been seeing a lot of talk recently using two motorcycle engines to make a V8 engine and swapping this into really light cars. Hartley Enterprises is a company who has developed the H1 being currently used in the DP1. The H1 currently weights 200 lbs and with 170 CID delivers 400HP @ 10KRPM … Read more
RaceHome.com mentioned this 1962 VW Bus powered by a 408 hp twin-turbo Porsche 993 engine. The creators of the swap included a six-speed transmission, vented brakes, full independent suspension, full race frame, and 3-piece 18-inch BBS wheels. The objective as stated on their website was to transplant as much of the 993’s internals as possible … Read more
This mid-engine H22A4 Integra featured on Honda-Tech.com is a very impressive swap created by RaceCity_USA. The amount of work going into this shows from the length of the project. The thread starts Sept. 2004 and continues with dyno testing in May 2007. There are a total of 105 pages he makes reference to on the … Read more
The boys over at American Super Car Inc. are going to try to steal the show at SEMA this year. Their solution to wow everyone is a 1963 Corvette with a Mid-engine 1,000 HP twin turbo LSX engine swap and a paddle-shifted Mendeola transaxle. The car is built over a complete ladder-type tube chassis with … Read more