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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22857 Location: UK

Cars with non-original engines.

The red Spitfire had an engine from a 1300 (Toledo I think) saloon, so wasn't quite original although it had the Spit head on it.

Otherwise, apart from the blue 2.5 Spit (it was Triumph though), most of mine have had original-spec engines in them.

What re-engined cars are, or have been, owned by forum members?

RJ
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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I used to have a Corsa with a Redtop fitted. It went like stink. It used to be a 1.1.
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7223 Location: Edinburgh

Mine was scrapped in 1964 on account of a cracked block. When rescued from the scrap yard it received an engine a couple of years older than the car.

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rjt10/4 · Joined: 26 Nov 2012 Posts: 214 Location: Minions Cornwall

1958 morris minor with a 1.6 engine from i think an oxford drove well enough though

peppiB · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:27 pm Post subject:

My supposed 1098 Minor runs around with a 948 engine. Much more nippy than the original. it was supposed to be a temporary measure but I like it so much I never did get around to replacing it with another 1098 (Flywheel had to be changed to allow use of the ridged 1098 gearbox)

stuchamp · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 546 Location: Iowa, USA

A few of mine have had transplants over the years.
My '57 Chevy wagon originally had an in-line 6 and now has a Chevy 350 V8 from a '93 Chevy pickup.

Jason · Joined: 12 Nov 2008 Posts: 623 Location: Todmorden, Lancs.

welshrover · Joined: 09 Aug 2011 Posts: 326

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Great engines the Red top and they are highly sought after now.
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pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

Back in the mid 70s I shoe-horned a Ford 1500 GT from a Corsair into a mk1 Midget. At the same time we fitted a rally tuned 2.5 straight six Triumph engine into a Stag belonging to my brother.

The Seven Special in my avatar is fitted with a Reliant engine.

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baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I put a V6 zodiac into a Mk1 SWB transit some years back.Worse than any capri in the wet but fun in a straight line.

ChrisD · Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 78 Location: South Wales

I currently have a Sprite with a pre-crossflow Ford "L" block in it. Modified back in the early 70's. Its quite a nippy little thing!

Ellis · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:51 pm Post subject:

I have re-engined my 1962 Series 2a Land Rover with a 200tdi from an early Discovery and it is now a pleasure (a relative term for a Series Land Rover) to drive.

I also have a 1954 Series 1, awaiting restoration, which has a BMC 1500 cc petrol engine fitted at some time in it's past. It was a popular conversion after the 1973/74 fuel crisis, I believe, but I bet it won't pull the skin off a rice pudding. I've not driven it yet.

A friend who has recently passed away once put a Riley One Point Five engine into a Hillman Imp to enter an open class for rallying in the early 1970s! Yes, that's right - engine in the front with gearbox, propshaft and rear wheel drive. It went like the wind so he told me.
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BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I had a series 2a LandRover in 1981, it had a Perkins 4203 with Rover P5 diffs, it would pull a house down. You also knew when you met a fellow Perkins convert by the way both your bodies shook in time with a Perkins on tickover! (or one of you had a muscular affliction)