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by **Dragger_Dan** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:26 am

Me and my dad were discussing engine swaps into various vehicles and we were wondering - what cars came out with a front wheel drive V8. I know there was the caddilac V8 that Bill Strong put into the back of an AW11... did the japs make anything similar?

by **xsspeed** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:36 am

Only thing that springs to mind is I seem to remember reading something about oldsmobile v8s. Thats probably in line with the Caddy V8 you are talking about. (same stable etc)

by **GDII** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:40 am

I know the Lamborghini Miura is a 4.0 litre V12 transverse mounted mid engine car. That's the only car I know of that is bigger than a V6.

by **Adoom** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:53 am

Way more V6's transverse mounted in FWD cars.
Get like a late maxima 3.0 V6 and turbo or supercharge it.
Or try fit a 1UZ to a FWD box or something.....

by **tenyearguarantee** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:05 pm

i know there are camry's with v6s in them, and that they mate up to e series gearboxes.
2vz-fes i think

by **xsspeed** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:21 pm

speak of the devil, this came up on oldschool

-+=gon-zo-crazy=+- · by **neo** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:28 pm

whats in an fto?

by **jakesae101** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:29 pm

they did a rover v8 fwd into a mini

by **Adamal** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:31 pm

neo wrote:whats in an fto?

They had 4cyl and V6's

by **durty starlet** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:53 pm

xsspeed wrote:speak of the devil, this came up on oldschool

that was me lol, is awd though

by **Timmo** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:01 pm

to the limits of my knowledge, only the Yanks were silly enough to chuck a V8 in a FWD car....not that they output much power anyway

In saying that a 3.8l V6 (i.e. Diamante) is getting pretty close to V8 capacity.

by **79rolla** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:11 pm

iv got a 3ltr doc v6 fwd cefero sitting in the paddoc, motor needs a rebuld, could be a good donor car? altho its auto sadly, not many manuails around :wink:

by **thegreatestben** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:25 pm

toranado's are V8 fwd as well as some caddy's etc.

by **sergei** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:10 pm

A few Yamaha powered cars were V8 FWD.
from memory one was Ford Taurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Premium_V_engine

by **ROBODISCO_20v** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:54 pm

Yep Ford Taurus SHO was FWD V8. New one is twin turbo V6

by **Lith** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:35 pm

Why bother with a V8?? I'd expect most of the FWD V8 engines out there made no more (if less) power than the easier to source and work with Japanese V6s running around now. The 3.5l V6 in the Honda Legends make up around 220kw with gobloads of torque

by **Dragger_Dan** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:34 pm

Lith wrote:Why bother with a V8??

If we were using common sense, yes, a V6 or a turbo 4 would make sense, but the noise a V8 makes will always beat the 4 and the 6.

by **rage** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:18 pm

when i was in the states i drove an impala which had a 5.2l fwd v8. crazy car to drive. pretty torquey but absolutely painful to drive.

by **spencer** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:51 pm

failboat mitsi do one aswell 8a8? or something ask fuel

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:52 pm

Yeah 8A80 or something, but would be damn hard to get hold of.

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