project stuka Options

[paroxysm]

just thought I'd better start a thread for a project that I've been working on for about 9 years.
had a car in 99 i had done up fine
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but one day the passenger door would not open,and said hey how about an engine swap, bought a 2.2 six and then realized 125hp was not enough, so a v8 became my goal. Destiny had other plans.
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The car I had built for my wife was finished off by an eager srt4 neon
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I was the driver had my leg broken in 3 places, but I lived.
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out came the motor
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in came the new motor, a g60 lysholm
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but where to put the intercooler?
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might aswell go wide
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mocking up stage. I replaced the bondo slante nose look with fiberglass fenders
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now that 90% of the bodywork was done it was time to get the car to actually run, and just this last weekend I did get it running. The reason for calling it a stuka is the lysholm charger sounds like an air raid siren. I will post up a vid of it running when i get a chance.

[rohar]

I did a similar swap about 10 years ago. 1.8 8v with Audi 5000 internals and a turbo. I managed to fit it in there without cutting any sheet metal.

The company that supplied Turbonetics with silicone connectors is here in town. For $100 they cut me a custom elbow that fit perfectly on the throttle body. IIRC, I had to fab a custom water flange on that end of the head as well.

Ran it for a couple of years, then it found a horrible end (nobody was hurt).

I recently picked up another chassis, and I've still got the Kennedy adapter and radiator setup that I pulled from the wreck and I'm headed for an ABA turbo 16v next. I've scheduled the swap for this winter (brakes and suspension first). Again, it appears no sheet metal will have to be cut as I'm ditching the distributor. Again, it looks like the flange on that end of the head will have to be fabbed.

I've been shopping for an audi box as well, but I'll probably try and kill the 901 first (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)