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RE: engine swaps

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: engine swaps
From: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:52:13 -0700
Yes, Patrick is correct.  This engine also has a very long and distinguished
racing career on numerous platforms dating from the mid-fifties.

Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)


-----Original Message-----
From: Bowen, Patrick A RP2 [mailto:PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:20 AM
To: 'Tom Sivertsen'; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: engine swaps



Actually, the Buick 3.8 V-6 is a most reputable engine.  It is rated as one
of the best v-6s ever made.  Now as to its application to a spit that is
another arguement

Patrick Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sivertsen [mailto:siv@education.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 9:59 AM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: engine swaps



Just to throw my two bits into the discussion:

I've seen several engine swaps in Spits:

The most questionable:
Tr7 motor (good god. why?  Sorry -- not a fan!  Say "head gaskets" over and
over)
Buick V6  (more garbage)
The local guy who dropped the 215 Rover into a spit, and got it in by
extending the front frame and splicing two GT6 hoods together to make up
for the length (it's got a hood scoop, too.  I hear it really moves, and
have seen it autox.  But I can't look at it for too long -- makes my head
hurt)

The smoothest:

the Spit 6 (a fairly clean, easy conversion) (but GT's are so nice --
restore one instead!)
The ROTARY -- the most sensible I've seen.  There are several people around
who've
        done these, and Grassroots Motorsports did a nice feature on the
RoSpit in their magazine.  There are "how to" instructions around, and you
end up with a lot more horse (what is it, 140 or 150?) and less front end
weight.

Tom S. in Isla Vista



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