motors for kit cars (was Re: [geeks] Hmmmm fattening)

[Kurt Huhn]

alex j avriette wrote:
> 
> > I've dropped my V-Twin powered micro-hotrod idea in favor of a cobra
> 
> Eh. Just go with a Lotus Elise and you'll be fine.
> 

Blah - a high-winding 4-cyl is not my idea of a muscle car.  It works,
no doubt.  However I like to feel the pistons throbbing up and down
vibrating the car all over, er, I mean.  crap....

> > kit-car.  I'm debating what engine should go in it - perhaps a V-10 if
> > there's room :)  Dodge is also going to be making a 6.1-liter Hemi in
> > the next couple years, and that might be a nice powerplant too.
> 
> You can pick up a viper motor for $5000-6000 out of a wrecked one. Join
> a viper mailing list. I thought long and hard about stuffing one into my
> Z car.
> 

I think a 10-cyl is too much weight.  I'm going to go with a
small-block, bored out to larger displacement.  Which one?  heh, maybe
a  360 bored and stroked to 408 :)
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