Installing a Ferrari/Maserati Engine To a Replica

Installing a Ferrari/Maserati Engine To a Replica

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Gunnapaul2

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1 posts

113 months

Wednesday 10th June 2015
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Hi all, Pistonheads and general mechanical newbie here for the first time.

As in title, I was just wondering if this was possible? I've seen some Ferrari replicas over the years, normally Ebay, and love the look of them, some really well done inside and out, but I wouldn't be willing to buy one due to it having the Toyota engine. I'd love to one day have the replica with the plan to have a Maserati 4200 or Ferrari engine installed, but would this be possible being an MR2? Or would it require too much modification including chassis making it near impossible (or similar expenses to buying a genuine Ferrari)? I would of course be just doing the buying and hiring pros to do the hard bits.

Regards.

kambites

68,448 posts

228 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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Most of the replicas are completely the wrong dimensions, you'd have no chance of fitting a longitudinal V8 in one.

I think the closest you could get would be to get a custom space-frame chassis designed to fit both the engine and the replica body panels and built a new car from the ground up but there would be little point as it would be cheaper to buy a real Ferrari.

Edited by kambites on Thursday 11th June 07:51

andyiley

9,981 posts

159 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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Sounds like what you are looking for is a kit car type replica some of which allow multiple engine options.

Not sure if the right one exists for you though.

nitrodave

1,262 posts

145 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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The big problem is that the gearboxes are in the diff and then you have the head ache of all the gearbox hyrdaulics and control units.

More trouble than it's worth. Just buy a ferrari

PaulKemp

979 posts

152 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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The body kit versions such as most Ferrari replicas are just body panels stuck on to the original car.
Kits such as the GT40 and ultima offer more flexibility running as they do longitudinal V8's and a transaxle from Renault or Porsch

batbuilder92

92 posts

231 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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This guy did it :

http://www.ferrarip4replica.co.uk/p4-build-diary/

Using a crashed 355 engine. Not sure he finished it though.

AlexTatar

76 posts

171 months

Sunday 12th July 2015
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I tried putting an audi A8 v8 engine into an mr2, longitudinal. Didn't work out, chassis had to be cut which then requires the car (when finished) to be VOSA tested. A very difficult test!
Heres a picture of the V8 in the engine bay, as you can see the flywheel is past the point where the drive shafts would go from the gearbox to the wheels, so it meant the firewall had to be cut to bring the engine back enough that the gearbox drive shafts would line up with the wheels.


Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

262 months

Tuesday 14th July 2015
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Gunnapaul2 said:
Hi all, Pistonheads and general mechanical newbie here for the first time.

As in title, I was just wondering if this was possible? I've seen some Ferrari replicas over the years, normally Ebay, and love the look of them, some really well done inside and out
They are very rarely well done inside and out IME. I have never seen an MR2 based car that's been done well on the outside as they invariably use stupid 6 inch wheel spacers to increase the track.

Rather than getting a pretend Ferrari, why not get a car that stands on it's own merits?