4.3 Chevy in '87 LX-I???

[Bassmastry101]

Sounds like you really are serious about this. I for one am looking forward to this build, regardless if it fails or not. If you earned the money and want to throw it at a project like this then more power to you. As long as your happy doing it and learning more as you go, have fun.

Good luck and keep us updated. Subscribed.

[Bassmastry101]

Btw, this thread made me think of the civette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudjNvnsfKE

[LJ1987LX-I]

Well, I'm not going to do something like that, not as crazy anyway.

[MessyHonda]

rwd accord...nice

[LJ1987LX-I]

Once finished it'll be a champ

[Dr_Snooz]

This project is pretty much set in stone.

Sounds good. Let's see the pics!

[Vanilla Sky]

A C4 Corvette is close enough in wheel base and track width to fit under the 3gee. C4 Corvettes are less than $1000 in the kind of condition you'd be looking for, since you're going to be cutting the body off.

[LJ1987LX-I]

Snooz, once I get started I'll have a whole picture thread devoted to this project.

[obdriver6]

I'm looking forward to this!

[LJ1987LX-I]

Me too, lol. It's going to be an exciting build.

[2oodoor]

Btw, this thread made me think of the civette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudjNvnsfKE

that is definatley a worth while project right there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfR_Z...eature=related

[Bassmastry101]

that is definatley a worth while project right there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfR_Z...eature=related

I think I spent over half my day at work sat looking through his build thread lol. Can't wait to see another RWD 3gee!

[LJ1987LX-I]

Spent some time watching YouTube and seeing that little hatch with the 'Vette motor in it was kinda a stupid build. Yeah, I will admit, it is cool, but that is WAYYY too much power to try to tame with that short of wheel base.

I'm doing a turboed V6 and have the very likelihood of my car doing the same thing, but I'm going to be making a suspension system that will hopefully dig the ass end down and keep me from losing control like that.

[Bassmastry101]

Any update?

[LJ1987LX-I]

Put on hold, got laid off from work so I've been job searching. Will keep y'all informed.

[DBMaster]

Greetings from The Humungus, The Lord Humungus. The Warrior of the Wasteland. The Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla!

[DBMaster]

Before you ask...

http://www.videohippy.com/video/1230...umungus-Speech

The discussions of these projects always make me think of the vehicles from "The Road Warrior."

[AccordEpicenter]

7's to low 8's in the eighth and high 9's to low 10's in the quarter

umm... 7s and low 8s in the 1/8mi does not translate to 9s or 10s in the 1/4 haha. But I still wanna race you when you get the car sorted out.

Honda power vs Chevy power, turbo!

[Ichiban]

I wasn't going to say anything, but since first blood has been drawn...

I'm thinking about what this is going to cost in both dollar and effort terms. You're going to easily put $20k into this project. At the end of it all, you're going to have a car worth all of $1,000, with additional deductions for it being a one-off that you can't take to a shop. It doesn't make sense to me. It would be less effort to build a full tube chassis and put the Honda body over it and have a real race machine when you're done. You obviously like the car well enough to work on it and I'm assuming you like it for the same reasons everyone does. It's spunky and highly refined. You want to improve it, but turning it into a Chevy is going to destroy what makes it unique. Making it RWD is going to eliminate the F1 suspension. There goes its spunk. Using a Chevy drivetrain will destroy its refinement. It's like turning your Mercedes into a donk. You have something unusual, but it's not better. I'd say understand first what makes the car special, then work from there.

Sorry to bag on your project. I could be wrong, but it doesn't sound to me like you've really thought this through. All I can see is an eventual Craiglist ad for a big pile of parts. Good luck with whatever you do.

I put the impossible B20A into my 82. If you can fab, and stick with a project, it's really not that hard or expensive, just time intensive.

With that out of the way, lets see this thing done. I always wanted to do a 4.3/350 swap into a jap car, but I considered an early corolla or 2wd hilux, something already rear wheel drive.

[LJ1987LX-I]

Lol it will be strange. But once I get the car done and figured out I'd be glad to race anyone of you guys. Not that I'd know I'd win, but to see what your cars could do and whatnot.

[LJ1987LX-I]

Hey guys, just to let you know, I'm working on getting back on my feet. Plans have changed for the Honda... Don't worry, still doing a V6/RWD swap.

A buddy of mine (the one who's going to be helping me through the project) bought a 96 V-6 'stang with a 3.8 under the hood. He's going to sell me the motor, ECM, and exhaust for $500.

We're going to tear down the motor and re-bearing everything, new valve guides, new rings, and we're going to throw in a mild-cam, and slap a vortex (spelling) supercharger on it.

Motor runs strong, and sounds quite impressive, but I am going to do all this because the motor has 160000 miles on it.

He's keeping the transmission in it for another build, so I just gotta find a rear end and transmission and we'll start working on the build then! I'll keep y'all posted

[Vanilla Sky]

For $500, you can get more power out of a SBC 350, even if you have to take a weight penalty. Hell, that puts you in the LT1 price range. $1000 LT1/T5 combos are easy to find in running, driving Camaros, letting you sell off the rest of the car to get that $1000 down to practically nothing. I'd take that path before putting in an engine with only slightly more power potential than the motor coming out. For all that work, you're getting about 40 HP more than the current engine. Not worth it for such a modest power increase.

[LJ1987LX-I]

Heads are going to be ported and intake. He's got a few more ideas to add to it but he thinks it's still going to be pretty fast.

[pickupman6]

Its not that hard to get 300 hp out of a 3.8 I used to hang around the mustang forums and have seen a lot of 6 cyl ponys putting out 300hp. Iv seen a few putting out close to 600. Those motors are really detuned from the factory, a little bit of head work, cam, intake, exhaust and you got 250hp.

[LJ1987LX-I]

All I really need is around 250-275 and the Accord would scream. But I'm thinking about going up to 300.