You know all those V8 converted rotaries?

Will66 · December 12, 2012, 12:54:23 PM

Well this went the other way.

13BT in a Corvette!

steve garbutt · December 12, 2012, 01:01:38 PM

that looks positively lost in there

Brett · December 12, 2012, 01:50:05 PM

What series \'vette is that?

Did the conversion get completed?

Where are the videos?

Why has no one offered me a go?

etc etc

Will66 · December 12, 2012, 01:56:24 PM

It\'s a C4 in the states and I found it on RX8Club. Other than that I don\'t know much about it. Just think of the colossal size turbo you could fit out in front of it, as well as a mahoosive intercooler. You could make loads of power.

Grant Monkhouse · December 12, 2012, 02:32:21 PM

Where the rest of the engine?!!!! There is a thread on rx7 club too with an old muscle car with a 13B turbo in it. Sounds funny watching a muscle car drive past on the videos going brap brap brap, when it should go grog grog grog with a big cam in it

shaunwil · December 12, 2012, 06:37:38 PM

Theres room for 4 more rotors

Lovely :p

Shaun

B.Martin · December 12, 2012, 09:33:42 PM

I\'m not getting involved in this debate again...:Nono!

Grant Monkhouse · December 13, 2012, 08:11:57 AM

Check this one out:D
http://m.rx7club.com/showthread.php?p=11275809#post11275809

B.Martin · December 13, 2012, 08:25:20 AM

It\'s cool, but I don\'t get it. The dude has an FD with a Grand national engine and a Chevy with a rotary? I really struggle to comprehend it.

Brett · December 13, 2012, 08:29:06 AM

Just realised how high that engine is sitting in the C4?

Grant Monkhouse · December 13, 2012, 09:32:12 AM

Quote from: B.Martin;844414It\'s cool, but I don\'t get it. The dude has an FD with a Grand national engine and a Chevy with a rotary? I really struggle to comprehend it.

Because he can.

I recent watch a video where a guy had put a Hemi in a 55 Chevy bel air why? I hear you ask because he can. And pis s all the Chevy guys off. Also because its his car and hemis are awesome

B.Martin · December 13, 2012, 10:18:59 AM

Yeah but putting a different V8 into another pony car is fairly understandable, but \'just because you can\' doesn\'t always mean you should. I guess if you fancy wasting some cash for something a bit different its your choice, just i personally don\'t understand the logic.

I guess all i\'m saying is, i wouldn\'t do it...

Like i\'ve said before, buy a C5 corvette instead of putting a V8 into a RX-7. Hell buy an RX-7 instead of putting a rotary into a C5 corvette. It just seems a bit daft, sure someone might prefer the look of one over the other etc and if (as previously mentioned) you\'ve got money to burn then go... Be different and do something to \'pis s the purists off\' but seems a hell of a lot of hassle just to be a transplant troll.

Will66 · December 13, 2012, 10:34:14 AM

The guy that is putting a 426 Hemi into a 55 Chevy is Mike Finnegan who is an Editor for Hot Rod Magazine.

55 Chevy with a Hemi link in case I embed the video wrong.

Grant Monkhouse · December 13, 2012, 10:41:12 AM

He\'s that\'s the one. Watch their YouTube videos when they come up.

Ben you do realise that puttin anything other than a Chevy engine in a Chevy is worse than a rotary v8 swap. Having a mopar motor in a Chevy could well be as bad as sleeping with your gfs mum.

B.Martin · December 13, 2012, 02:11:34 PM

If your a yank perhaps, but i\'m not. I know who Finnegan is, i am subscibed to hot rod mag