{"id":2973,"date":"2013-12-08T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2021-10-13T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T01:56:14","slug":"ls6-powered-austin-healey-sprite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"Austin Healey Sprite with a LS6 V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Austin Healey Sprites are very light, so it doesn’t take much power to make them very fast. The owner of this Sprite purchased it off eBay with a small-block Chevy V8. The owner says with the heavy iron block V8 it weighed 1,456 pounds and drives “Z06 under the table.” The owner now has plans to install a LS6 V8 and 200-4R transmission being controlled by a FAST XFI system.<\/p>\n

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Austin Healey Sprites are very light, so it doesn’t take much power to make them very fast. The owner of this Sprite purchased it off eBay with a small-block Chevy V8. The owner says with the heavy iron block V8 it weighed 1,456 pounds and drives “Z06 under the table.” The owner now has plans… Read More »Austin Healey Sprite with a LS6 V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sprite-austin-healey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Austin-Healey-Sprite-with-a-LS6-V8-01.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12295,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12295","url_meta":{"origin":2973,"position":0},"title":"Austin-Healey Sprite with a Rover V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1960 Austin-Healey \"Bugeye\" Sprite has had several upgrades and many different engines since it rolled out of the factory. 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