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

[LL - NY]

You guys also forgot the:

Sunbeam Tiger (FoMoCo 260/289 HiPo solid lifter)

Iso Grifo (Mopar, just can't recall which, I think 383, could even be the
426 Hemi)

Weren't there other sundry Brit's running motors from across the pond? (who
knows, perhaps that would be the only part of those cars to reliably
work...flame suit on ;-).

LL - NY

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Mike Arman <Armanmik at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>
>
> 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 ;-)
>
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