What kind of a crazy person would drive an LT-1 powered German car?

[Mike Arman]

Same kind of crazy person who would take a fine, elegant, refined, pedigreed British sports car and 
remove the old world hand crafted engine that the car was designed for and then take a crude, mass 
market lump of Detroit Wonder Metal (cast iron) and stuff it into the resultant available space.


AC Cobra. Carroll Shelby.


Start with a completely unexceptional run of the mill boring, slow and underpowered British two 
seater, finish up with an absolute and legendary world beater.



Any particular reason the same thing won't work on cars from other countries?



I helped on a conversion of a 289 ford V-8 into a Mercedes 190SL (this was back in 1968 or so, and 
these cars weren't worth anything then). Started with a tired car with a bad engine which didn't do 
much even when it was new, finished with an absolute thunderbolt of a car - twice the horsepower, 
better handling because the Ford V-8 weighed less than the MB 4-banger, and the car looked 
absolutely stock - until you stepped on the gas. (We needed to find a higher ratio rear end, and we 
never did.)


Best Regards,

Mike Arman
90V8Q

(3.6 liters is *just* adequate . . . for a motorcycle ;-)