Engine choice. Decisions decisions.

Here's a short list

Fraser

How about finding the oversized Rover V8 from a twanged TVR? Then get someone to put you a megasquirt ECU kit together (have a look at

Don't know about prices, but what about the Lexus/Toyota V8 out of the Soarer/GS400 models?

Burgerman will help you there!

Forget ideal, fit one of these

One of the kids at uni has a Capri and we have been having discussions about engines as he wants to change my suggestion was the S54 ok so its probably not that cheap and it's not a V (but an inline 6 sounds good to my ears) it's also a cast iron block to keep the unit compact, so it's also not that light but it revs to 8k as standard puts out over 330bhp and 350Nm from 3.25L of normally aspirated engine.

->Thinking of doing a transplant to the Capri.

->Am I missing any decent, cheap, powerful engines here?

->

->Cheap, pokey, reliable and light would obviously be ideal.

V6 from a Omega, rather then mess about making it fit the Ford box use the Vauxhall one.

My money would be on a V8 nice 3.9 Efi, but then I like V8's

->How about finding the oversized Rover V8 from a twanged TVR?

->Then get someone to put you a megasquirt ECU kit together (have a look

->at

What about the engine from a Lancia Thema LS ;)

Then you can kind of have 2 cakes and eat them both!

Which just about sums it up due to the length / width of the Capri engine bay.

There is also the Nissan 300zx V6, but I wouldn't. Too much plumbing and wiring.

I would be looking for a large cubes Rover V8. Fits, sounds great, loads of them out there.

No brainer ? :-)

"2JZ engine no s*it - this will decimate all..."

Do it :-)

Yep. Mate it to a decent gearbox, though, the SD1 manuals are generally all shagged now. R380 is an easy swap. And anyway, it's all too easy to light up the rear tyres and roar off into the truck behind, with an LT77.

(Irrelevant stuff about other engines being even remotely worthwhile, snipped...)

Why stick with the OEM EFi ?

It won't be anything like as good as Megasquirt, which costs pennies anyway.

I would add some bike throttles bodies to the above recipe to give the full multi throttle soundtrack :-)

->Why stick with the OEM EFi ?

Nice easy DIY job.

->It won't be anything like as good as Megasquirt, which costs pennies anyway.

Mate of mine had a hell of a job installing a Megasquirt on his V8, a lot of work for very little reported benefit.

A megasquirt is only as good as the tuner. A lot of americans treat injection as a carb, and install a big fat single injector at the TB to fed all eight (or one body/bank) cylinders, rather than doing the direct port/fuel rail route.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, Fraser Johnston decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

I asked for that didn't I?

Ok, I'll add a footnote to the list of possible engines - it reads like this "No Jap stuff".

Ta though.

->->A megasquirt is only as good as the tuner.

True, the problems were more getting it to work in the first place !

I guess it's horses for courses, my V8's are all currently in offroad machines, I want the fuel system to work reliably and at any angle so the OEM kit is ideal.

That being said if I was putting a V8 in a Capri (or in a Cobra kit the next project) then I'll prolly stick a four barrel Holly on it ;-)

The Cossie is far from easy to fit, especially if you're no good with electrics and fuel injection. There are engine mount and bellhousing adapter plate kits to put Rover V8's into Capris.

Or alternatively, why not just buy a 2.8i Special and have it tuned?

I'm pretty good with electrics and fuel injection, so fitting the Cossie isn't really an issue.

Where can I find Rover - Capri kits nowadays though?

Another problem will be that I'll have to upgrade the gearbox. Mine's got the standard 2.0 Type 9 box in, which won't take the V8's grunt.

Mainly because I've already got the Laser, because it's near to mint as I'm going to get one, and because I know the car.

I'm also going for the street sleeper look, so it's still going to look like a standard Laser.