From Another Mother: What’s Your No-Expense-Spared Dream Car & Engine-Swap Combo?

I would swap a Colombo V12 into a ’53 Corvette (C1).
The most beautifull engine in the most beautifull car ever made.

Take the Chevrolet 350 TPI that came in my 1977 Jaguar XJC out, and replace it with the supercharged 395 hp 4.2L V8 from an XJR X350 series. Grin factor for days; bragging rights into the next year.

An Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 with the 4.7L V8 from the 8c disco volante driven through a gated manual transmission

What is the bmw pictured in this article? Gorgeous

I want to take a 92 LSC SE and put in the current coyote 5.0 V8, and add proper electronics.

I can’t believe I missed this one, this is my favorite subject. I tend to look at engine swaps a little differently , however. Ultimate power and speed aren’t what I’m after. Rather, useable power and efficiency combined with some degree of style and utility. Some favorites I’ve seen are:
Volvo 240 wagon w/ 200hp VW TDI engine
Volvo 122 wagon w/ BMW E30 chassis and M20 engine
Cortina wagon w/Lotus engine and suspension
and of course
Porsche 912 w/Subaru engine (hell, I wouldn’t evenneed the Turbo!)

Some others I’d like to try
Vega wagon w/Ecotec
Mk1 Capri w/Ecoboost
Corvair w/Subaru

And on and on and on……..

An Alfa romeo GTA Junior with the 3.2 Busso V6 from my 2004 GT

I want a first generation BMW 6 series body on a newer M6 chassis with an S70 from the F1 matted to a 6 spd manual.

My actual hillclimb car is an 86 bmw 325 with ford 302 (306) power. Maybe a less exotic dream, but still my dream and she’s real…and rad.

I have three considerations. First would be to find an amg hammer coupe or maybe an even older benz and swap a manual trans and a supercharged 55 motor and handling upgrades. The other idea is to take a hudson hornet and put either an s52 or a 55 in it. Lastly if I could I would buy back my corvair that was my first vintage car and swap a porsche flat six in

A Jaguar V12 with electronic ignition and electronic fuel injection, coupled with overdrive automatic transmission and lockup converter on Series I XJ 12.

I dream of one day building a Mercedes (c124) 300CE AMG Hammer coupe replica/tribute with the 6.2 l v8 from the 63 AMG-models (M156). I think the wide body AMG-styling looks stunning, and I really like that engine. If the budget is sufficiently large, I would even swap the entire floor with everything from a newer car, like Piper Motorsport has done with a 190E EVO replica/tribute.

In the late-1970s I owned an Austin-Healey 3000 Mark III (BJ8, the model’s final iteration). The engine was very tired, however. I was renting a London house from a director of the company that owned the BMW distribution franchise for the UK. We discussed the possibility of putting a modern BMW 3.0-litre six and gearbox into the Healey, and were close to getting agreement up the line for a free engine to demonstrate ‘what if’. Then my landlord jumped ship to take another job, and the project inevitably died without his ‘sponsorship’. My lottery-win Q-car would be a Citroen 2CV… Read more »

Aston Martin 5.3L V12, one of the later variants from the DB9. Slap that son of a gun in to a Series III Jaguar XKE 2+2.

It’d need a six speed too, but a conventional one mounted behind the engine, not a rear mounted transaxle.

It’d need the requisite big brakes and uprated suspension, but I’d want it to look as stock as humanly possible from the outside.

Alternate: Fox Body Mustang Pace Car Edition with a 2.3 Ecoboost, 6-Speed, and built suspension. An Uber-SVO if you will.

And at one time I was hell bent on installing a 2.4 liter Ferrari engine in a VW transporter but then two guys came and offered me more than I could refuse for both my old flat window buses.

My favorite has to be a small block Chevy V8 that was installed in a Porsche 911 by a friend of mine who was a machinist at Dan Gurney’s All American Racers in Santa Ana, California. It blew people’s minds when John opened the engine cover and they saw it in there.

Recently I was thinking about a cool engine for the rather slow VW sp2 1.7 flat 4 and the 917/30’s turbo flat-twelve you mentioned would be pretty amazing but if you want to be more conservative a period correct flat six 911 2.7 engine would be perfect!
from my visit to Brazil, I fall in love with those cars in the future if I have the money I want to bring one of these to Colombia.