Old Looking Engines

[whitevanman]

I've been reading a few articles on engine swaps recently and got to wondering if there are any newish engines that manage to look older, along the lines of the Zetec with a fake Lotus Twincam rocker cover or the Datsun Sunny engine being a more modern version of the BMC A seies....

[seth]

I've been reading a few articles on engine swaps recently and got to wondering if there are any newish engines that manage to look older, along the lines of the Zetec with a fake Lotus Twincam rocker cover or the Datsun Sunny engine being a more modern version of the BMC A seies....

 

MX5 can be quite well disguised Remove the lettering from the cam cover, stick a pair of carbs on the side instead of the injection, sprinkle liberally with period looking components and everyone will think you've got a Fiat/Lancia/Lotus/other twin cam.

[M'coli]

There is a kit-car that uses a Bavarian V12 with Lamborghini machined into the cam covers - does that count?

[scaryoldcortina]

I've been reading a few articles on engine swaps recently and got to wondering if there are any newish engines that manage to look older, along the lines of the Zetec with a fake Lotus Twincam rocker cover or the Datsun Sunny engine being a more modern version of the BMC A seies....

 

MX5 can be quite well disguised Remove the lettering from the cam cover, stick a pair of carbs on the side instead of the injection, sprinkle liberally with period looking components and everyone will think you've got a Fiat/Lancia/Lotus/other twin cam.

 

pmsl, you can take a zetec, leave all the badges (that say zetec...) with the standard EFI and simply by placing it in a Mk2 cortina suddenly everyone thinks it's a lotus. I kid you not, if I had a penny for every time.....(I'd have 27p)

[seth]

Well, its not my fault Lotus did it already in Mk2 Cortinas! People are stupid I'm quite proud that I overheard one person suggest mine was a Riley lump though

[whitevanman]

Seth, do you have a copy of all the stuff that was in retro about your car?, I read the first issue but never saw the rest...

 

SOC...people are strange....don't know if you noticed or not

[seth]

Seth, do you have a copy of all the stuff that was in retro about your car?, I read the first issue but never saw the rest...

 

Third "episode" is in the shops at the moment. I don't really feel it would be right to go through everything from the articles until a while after they've been out. I will put up more/different info online but not until its all done with in print. I took over 1000 photos of the process!

 

[whitevanman]

Cool, as I am planning a couple of projects up and that looks an interesting set up a bit like the idea of a carbed zetec

[scaryoldcortina]

[Richard]

Is that a Lotus engine?

[whitevanman]

SOC, did you use the original ECU and did you wire it up yourself?

[chaseracer]

Is that a Lotus engine?

 

You owe SOC 28p...

 

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Big old American barge with modern BMW V12 and Dellorto carburettors:

 

When I first saw this, it was one of those total WTF moments...

[M'coli]

Big old American barge with modern BMW V12 and Dellorto carburettors:

 

When I first saw this, it was one of those total WTF moments...

What, that someone had caught you keying the side of it?

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Big old American barge with modern BMW V12 and Dellorto carburettors:

 

When I first saw this, it was one of those total WTF moments...

What, that someone had caught you keying the side of it?

 

You what? For God's sake, I'm nineteen and a half YEARS old, not months old... and I've never seen it in the metal. Never been west of the Atlantic either.

[seth]

Its a '49 - '51 Merc by the way....

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Its a '49 - '51 Merc by the way....

 

No it bloody well isn't. I'm not that stupid...

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Merc(ury)

[scaryoldcortina]

Big old American barge with modern BMW V12 and Dellorto carburettors:

 

*snipped image*

 

When I first saw this, it was one of those total WTF moments...

What, that someone had caught you keying the side of it?

 

You what? For God's sake, I'm nineteen and a half YEARS old, not months old... and I've never seen it in the metal. Never been west of the Atlantic either.

 

Good for you.. I stopped adding fractions to my age when i was about 13, by 19 I'd grown a sense of humour too.

 

WVM, yes, the zetec is on the standard mondeo ECU and engine loom. I didn't actually fit this one - it's the car from the legendary "saturday in the garage with a 16v mk2" thread on BSC, I bought it as an unfinished project.

[pogweasel]

Its a '49 - '51 Merc by the way....

 

No it bloody well isn't. I'm not that stupid...

 

Seems that in fact you are.

Congratulations on another great piece of self pwning!

[seth]

A cynic might say that I set an almost intentional trap there.

 

[Guest EccentricRichard]

A cynic might say that I set an almost intentional trap there.

 

 

Yeah, sorry, I'd forgotten about the existence of Mercury... I think most Brits/Europeans would think M-B if someone said Merc to them.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Good for you.. I stopped adding fractions to my age when i was about 13, by 19 I'd grown a sense of humour too.

 

Sorry, I know the fractions bit is rather pedantic, and, believe it or not, I do have a sense of humour when I'm not having to watch my back constantly for the next attack...

[M'coli]

Big old American barge with modern BMW V12 and Dellorto carburettors:

 

When I first saw this, it was one of those total WTF moments...

What, that someone had caught you keying the side of it?

 

You what? For God's sake, I'm nineteen and a half YEARS old, not months old... and I've never seen it in the metal. Never been west of the Atlantic either.

Use your sense of humour - and expect to be tested and wound-up until you wind your neck in a wee bit, huh?