Renault Van And Lexus LS400 Sandwich
Making a V8 powered van is as simple as cutting the floor out on a Renault Espace and gluing it on top of a Lexus SC400. The builder also moved the driving position to the middle of the van. A nitrou...
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Making a V8 powered van is as simple as cutting the floor out on a Renault Espace and gluing it on top of a Lexus SC400. The builder also moved the driving position to the middle of the van. A nitrou...
Yes under this R35 body is a Nissan 180SX frame. This car was built for drifting by Japanese tuner Bee-R. Under the hood sits a 2JZ-GTE connected to a Getrag V160 six-speed transmission. The engine h...
Hans Abrahams shows off his amazing 1966 Sunbeam Tiger Mark I-A in the video below. The Sunbeam Tiger was conceived in the early 1960′s by the British car manufacturer Rootes. They were producing a s...
Porsche is rumored to be powering the new 988 with a 4.0L flat-eight engine. Porsche engineers were quoted saying 4.2 liters is the upper limit of flat-six motors because the weight of some internals...
This is probably the fastest 1993 Toyota Tarago on earth. Clearly not your average engine swap. This van has been modified to wrap around the huge motor and make serious passes down the strip. Under ...
You find some wild builds at the top of time attack racing. Every modification is to reduce the time it takes the car to complete one lap. Christian Valtonen of Voltonen Motorsport in Finland has bui...
While surfing the internet I came across BMW’s custom X5 LM. Essentially they took an X5 and installed a 700 horsepower, 6.0L V12 from their Le Mans LMR race car. They completed this project many yea...
You are looking at a 1999 Porsche 996 that has seen a rough life. This 911 has had eight previous owners. One or maybe all the previous owners contributed to a list of issues including kissing a guar...
The tuning company WKT in Germany took the 1.6L out of a Opel Kadett E and installed a 2.0L Ecotec. It is running over 35 psi of boost, producing around 685 horsepower. Watch as the proven formula of...
Nissan has been making Patrols for a long time. Only the fourth generation (Y60 1987–1997) featured a RB30 motor. A lot of owners swap the motor for one of its turbocharged brothers. Watch as this RB...
Nelson Racing Engines posted a video of a twin-turbo Viper V10 they built being tested on a dyno. The engine is going into a 1969 Dodge Charger being built by the Roadster Shop and makes 1,122 horsep...
Hemmings posted an ad for a very nice 1957 Ford Thunderbird with a classic Pontiac 389ci V8. The story goes back in the ’50s a drag racer wanted this Thunderbird to be faster than anything else on
In the ongoing horsepower war, Dodge just took the lead with the Hellcat. The engine is a 6.2L supercharged HEMI that outputs 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque. This is also the first factory su...
This is the first Pro-touring 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser I have ever seen. I came across it in an article about the 2014 Power Tour and while researching, I did not find a lot of details. I was ab...
PAC Racing Springs found this 1949 Chevy 3100 truck in a Missouri barn back in 2012. Since then they have turned it into a very capable performer. The truck is called “Project Condor” and features an...
A video of Matt Farah driving a very nice original Pantera and the other the heavily modified Ringbrothers’ version. If you remember the project started with a busted 1971 model and created a version...
Speedhunters is asking for V8 swaps for their upcoming Readers’ Rides article due out in July. If you have a V8 swap you would like them to feature go to this link for more details. Submission deadli...
This project proves you don’t need a lot of money to build a very capable pro-touring classic. The owner claims it was “built cheap” with a lot of the hardware purchased from a junkyard or Craigslist...
Almost everything in this Mustang has been transplanted from an Audi A6 donor. Along with the turbo 2.7L V6 engine, the builder is swapping the automatic transmission, AWD system, wheels, steering wh...
The 2014 Engine of the Year Awards were just released and below are the results. Congratulations to Ford for taking two awards including the engine of the year award. One thing to note is the majorit...
Your looking at someone’s mistake being turned into another’s dream. The owner purchased the Cayman with a blown motor and wanted to swap a GM LS3 or a Audi V8/V10. The owner decided to go with the L...
Someone in Canada is selling a 1993 Toyota Supra that is powered by a Nissan RB26DETT. The five-speed transmission is also out of a Skyline. The current asking price is $12,900. Below is the descript...
New rumors are out and it seems GM will follow Ford’s lead and offer a turbocharged inline-four for the 2016 Camaro. Automobile Magazine claims it will be a version of Cadillac’s turbocharged 2.0L. T...
The day after we post about a four-rotor engine powering a RX-7, we come across a race boat being powered by another four-rotor engine. It also happens to be built by the same guys over at Pulse Perf...
Many people know Mike Whiddett’s incredible RX-7. I have followed it since it was revealed in 2008. What I didn’t realize is we have never featured it on ESD. That ends today with Mike debuting the l...