www.innovativemounts.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=59112 Can be largely mitigated in the suspension. Oh ok. This is all I'm really trying to get across. I'm tired of the ignorant elitism based on false observations not even made by said elitists.
What would be a small engine with alot of horsepower? A friend of mine has a skoda octavia and his engine blew up so now were thinking of doing a engine swap with it
I can hear it now, that God-awful new Ford door chime. We've got three newer Fords at work, a 2015 6.2 4x4 F150, a 2012 5.0 2wd F150 and a 2016 6.2 4x4 F350. While the 6.2's have power for days, both of them are starting to get some bottom end noise, and neither have more than 50K miles, in fact, the one ton barely has 10K on it. The 5.0 truck has spent more time at the Ford dealer that with us, it's almost as bad as the modular engine-ed trucks we've got. Put simply, I couldn't in good conscious, recommend a newer Ford with a gas engine to anyone. Depends what constitutes small to you, in my mind, small but powerful means LS.
Are you looking for a crate engine or are you taking it from another car? Also, what year is your friend's car? At least in the US, the engine you swap in can't be older than the car itself.
This one is the 3.5 EcoBoost. Great power, runs perfect in all honesty. No odd noises, turbo whistle, I've fallen in love. I agree with you about the 6.2. It's not an engine I'm particularly fond of. It doesn't make enough power to justify the large displacement, it's not efficient, I haven't come across one that runs properly.
The ones we've got all run good, and have fairly decent power for that matter, but they just seem like they aren't going to last for terribly long time. Like I said, both have bottom end noise, and the half ton has some occasional spark knock as well.
You should try to find mounting solutions for that car. Not many want to swap an Octavia so it will be impossible unless you can fabricate parts or know someone good at it. You can find kits to put a honda engine into most "fun cars". Miata, mr2, old mini coopers. If your starting from scratch id go with an LS simply because it won't be much more work and it will be absurd once it's done. Not an easy task unless someone who knows about skodas can chime in.
My grandpa has a 2012 3.5L Ecoboost with 90Kish mile. The engine, in all honesty, is great. Love the torque it makes down low, feels like a V8. The problem I find with the truck is the damn transmission/TC. Thing feels like complete shit 1st through 3rd. Coming to a stop it stutters and feels like it wants to stall. I would think it was just some wear and tear, but my mom's 2010 Fusion feels exactly the same. Drives me nuts.
For reference the skoda is basically a vw golf 4 and i found someone who swapped a ls v8 into a golf. Making the mountings wouldnt be a problem because a friend of mine has some stuff where we can do it. The year of the car would be 2004 and we would use it from an existing car because the crate engines are hard to come by here. What about a wankel engine from a rx8?
I've come across 2 6.2's in just standard half-tons (not the Raptor). Both of them had a miss. --- Post updated --- When in doubt, Honda out. Turbo B16.
If you can get it to sit in the bay, can find a way to line the axles up and fit, and are willing to modify shift linkage you can put any engine you want in that thing. If that's the case id either look for a sturdier vw engine you can run some decent boost thru. The rotary would be cool but the gas mileage will plummet, among the other reliability issues you don't want in a daily, but would be KILLER on the track. Whatever you swap in, make sure the drivetrain is up to it. If you really want a project, I'd be putting something with 8 cylinders in there because a v8 skoda done right Would be really damn cool.
I looked into turbocharging one of the engines but that costs the same amount of money as swapping a v8 in but my biggest concern is that the car is fwd and the handling wouldnt be the best because of that big engine at front so a rotary would be the better idea for handling. Or we could try and make it awd if were swapping the engine anyway.
I was quoting my own post I quite like turbo roundabouts but in hindsight I think a one-lane roundabout is more suited to this location.
There was some bigger than Civic Hondas with 2.2l engines and 180hp at one point, two doors, coupe kind of things, can't even remember names, but I think those were one of the better engines in power vs weight vise.
Awd will be a challenge unless whoever is doing your fab work is an absolute gangster. It will be hard to get all of the power down so you'll be dumping money into suspension tires and a good LSD. I'd honestly get a project car at that point. These guys are having fun in this even more front heavy civic. Its an interesting subject but expect to spend more than what a nice miata would cost to put together. I would be looking to bolt a k24 to the stock miata trans with an existing kit but that's just me. --- Post updated --- H22a was the 2.2. Had good torque for a 4 banger. The b18c made the same 200hp but the power band was 2K rpm higher.
I'm still looking at finding a new go-fast toy. And found another candidate, 72 Skylark, $4500. Also found a 72 El Camino for $1600, this one is really tempting.
Yea, the Accord Coupe had the H22. I've seen people make big power with them, wouldn't mind doing one up myself.
