http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/212/

Check it out...!

Chris

its actually quite popular to put 350's in MG's because the bolt right in.

Nice!

True, but I bet this car is a handfull with an LS motor swap!

Would LOVE to drive this thing...

Chris

http://www.britishv8.org/MG/JohnMclean.htm

the biggest issue is if you want a manual trans and cooling. also if you like to use that power you need a custom reared. but all of that is still cheaper than droping a buick 215 which does DIRECTLY bolt to everything except exhaust and carb

At a local cruise night, I was checking out a Lotus 7 with an LSx in it. I started talking to the owner and asked him if it was an LS1. He said, no, that's the LS3 crate motor with 480 hp. Wow, I said, I can't imagine this thing weighs more than 2400 pounds. He said, more like 1800 pounds, and for a moment I was speechless (hard to imagine, I know).

And then he uttered the quote of the week: " When you step on it, you'd better be paying attention". I'll say.

I can't imagine a 7 with an LS motor in it. We have a 260 Horse Lotus 7 that shows up at our local autocrosses. It drew blood from my 16 year old son the first time he rode in it...Lotus 7 is actually faster IIRC around the top gear test track than a Veyron.

Lotus 7 with an LS would just be brutal...my kind of car!

Chris

are lotus 7's street legal in the US?

Yes they are...Just ungodly expensive.

It's like 32K for the kit last time I checked.

Chris

doesn't catterham make a drivable verison for the same price? again dont know if its us street legal

They do the same thing that Superformance does with their Cobra replicas. They come in without a motor installed and they are a compnent vehicle.

Some Ohio Jeep guys have gotten Egyptian Jeep Diesel Wranglers into the US using the same trick.

Methinks Camino could use this trick to bring in a G8 ST.

Chris

Possible, I guess.

Anyway, I can't imagine a Lotus 7 with an LS3!

They weigh nothing and are soooo small. The one I've been working on this year is so tight that I can barely wedge myself into it, and I'm not a big guy. Thie thing is fast with a tiny 4cyl Ford engine, it would be downright scary with an LS powerplant.

LS engine in an MG or a new Nissan 350Z, people do it...whatever works, why not

I guess it certainly prescribes to my brother's "put a 350 in it" whether you're talking about my mother's Malibu or a Bug...all depending on the day.

Where is hyperv6 to remind us that nobody wants pushrod technology?

Nobody wants pushrod technology.

They want flathead technology.

I just came back from an event that had quite a few "rat rodders" at it.

Those guys DO want flathead technology...

Chris