[s-cars] V8 into Ur-S6?

[Kent McLean]

Bares, Vittorio wrote:
> I would think you have several issues to look at - engine mounts are not
> where the I5 are - you would have dual exhausts coming under the car - I've
> seen several V8 swaps into small body cars that needed modifications to the
> sub-frame, don't know if the same is true on the Ur-S6

That, plus depending on where you live, US Federal laws say that
if you swap a newer engine into an older chassis, the engine must
meet emissions requirements for the year of the engine, not the
year of the chassis.  So "yes" to the ECU and all the other bits
(e.g, the newer engine might have 4 O2 sensors where your S-car
has just 1).

If you try to take the engine/transmission out of a newer V8 S-car,
you may find the generation IV or V quattro vs. the urS car's
generation II presents another set of problems.

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"