Thursday 7th November 2002

HP3 8100 V8 Crate Engine

GM are at it too with an 8.1 litre V8 chucking out over 500bhp!

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[AndySA]

Should be a great engine for any Cobra & GT40 replica builders.

[peas_star]

humm... dare i mention fuel economy?? oh sorry the yanks are making this engine so the two words never appear together!!

[MEMSDesign]

"We've incorporated all the strengths of the Vortec 8100 truck engine into the Vortec HP3 crate engine, including the emissions and fuel economy improvements we've made over the years," said Terry Andrzejewski, GM Powertrain Vortec HP3 development engineer.

Have trouble with reading do we?

[v8thunder]

Although it's bloody powerful, it'll be pretty useless in anything but a drag racer - it's too heavy to make a sports car handle, and it'll only just pull it's weight (most Ferraris and Lotuses will thrash a Viper in a drag race anyway). Proves my point that most American cars are simply designed to waste their cheap fuel.

[aww999]

500bhp is just the starting point remember - it'll have a really mild cam in it, cats in the exhaust, restrictive carb setup, a typcial factory compromise basically even though they call it a sporty high performance engine.

650-700bhp readily available after sorting the above, no problem, all for about $2k of parts.

[Roadrunner]

Mmmm...but what could you put it in? All I can think of is a cobra really.

[GTRCLIVE]

peas_star said: humm... dare i mention fuel economy?? oh sorry the yanks are making this engine so the two words never appear together!!

What are you doing here, as you must be a GLD 405 Owner!!!

[GTRCLIVE]

Roadrunner said: Mmmm...but what could you put it in? All I can think of is a cobra really.

Ultima's allready have Big Block Chevy's fitted. Even BBC with Twin Turbo's.