Allen Millyard is your man for a job like this. He is mainly a motorcycle man, taking a fairly standard bike & hacking two engines up to make one big one. He has videos on YouTube & every one is a joy especially if you like cup cakes whilst you work. Highly recommend.
Thought two:
your boot space has just been sacrificed & with it an amount of structural rigidity, a prerequisite for a small car with a big engine.
Even with a narrow angled V engine the boot has to go, the V6 experiment ran much too hot, an 8 wouldn’t keep its head gasket for long without fresh air around it. The front radiator wouldn’t keep much cool, so rear mounted radiators with fans running constantly to shift the heat. Swap the original radiator for an oil cooler. A bag of sand under the front plus aero to keep the front down. I’m assuming that if some mad hat has a go, their going to make its capacity grand enough to make the sphincter squeak when you set off; let’s make it big enough for the sphincter to be completely undecided whether to snap tight shut or to dilate.
When one considers that there are two front subframes under the car & both were for front wheel drive, why not stuff a second engine under the bonnet.
There you go 50/50 weight distribution, mind you you won’t be able to see over the bonnet.
M

Read More...