'65 Mustang fastback engine..
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Oh, lord, someone who's a Tokyo Drift Fanboy....
Yes, there are any number of better engines.
even...
(That be a boss 429, boss 302, and Modular 4.6.)
And if you MUST have something Turbocharged...
Serria Cosworth engine
Yes, there are any number of better engines.
even...
(That be a boss 429, boss 302, and Modular 4.6.)
And if you MUST have something Turbocharged...
Serria Cosworth engine
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And to think... that car was actually an RB26DET
The TT part didn't actually fit inside the engine bay all that well.
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Oh, lord, someone who's a Tokyo Drift Fanboy....
Yes, there are any number of better engines.
even...
(That be a boss 429, boss 302, and Modular 4.6.)
And if you MUST have something Turbocharged...
Serria Cosworth engine
If I'm not mistaken, then engine bay in a '65 isn't large enough to house a 427, which is one of the reasons why the '67's were designed to be larger. The 302 would be a good replacement as it was basically the same block as the 289, the largest engine available at the time. (Even the early GT-350's used a modified 289 block)
Why would you want to take the time to implant that power plant into a Mustang?
While it might seem novel to do based on the movie, in reality the cars in the movie were still powered by V-8 powerplants because the T-I6 wasn't cutting it.
A Nissan six may get the credit, but the stunts performed by this '67 in The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift were V8-propelled
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I think its been covered pretty well. You can't go wrong with a crate 289ci V8, particularly with the GT40 heads, a solid higher range cam, and a high flow intake manifold. Cheap to buy, cheap to build, and very cheap to operate (surprisingly). That would probably be my favorite overall choice, but Ford's new 5.0L crate motor (they call it the BOSS, I believe) is supposed to be pretty good as well.
If you wanted to do something creative/interesting in the near future, the application of some kind of EcoBoost powerplant would be a decent departure from the norm. I don't know how I'd feel about the EB 1.6L they may produce, I'd be more apt for a 2.0L unit with nearly 300 BHP, but time will tell on that one.
If you wanted to do something creative/interesting in the near future, the application of some kind of EcoBoost powerplant would be a decent departure from the norm. I don't know how I'd feel about the EB 1.6L they may produce, I'd be more apt for a 2.0L unit with nearly 300 BHP, but time will tell on that one.
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Well, the problem with the RB26DETT... errh... DET... that they stuffed into the Mustang, they didn't do much to it besides shove it in. A little tuning, the right turbine and some creative use of turbo-lag ramp-up, and you could probably get enough tire-spinning out of the straight-six to satisfy the producers. There's a reason it's a popular engine choice for drift-car set-ups...
RB26-powered MB190E
I guess the V8 choice was more for economy and repeatability. Having an expensive and complicated conversion plus the associated costs in power tuning and parts would have cost more to do for the stunt cars than what they finally ended up doing.
RB26-powered MB190E
I guess the V8 choice was more for economy and repeatability. Having an expensive and complicated conversion plus the associated costs in power tuning and parts would have cost more to do for the stunt cars than what they finally ended up doing.
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I would love to have a V8 in my Skyline, thank you... But first I'd need a Skyline.
Not all Skylines come with RB26DETTs... some come with RB25DETs (decent power potential... still a 500-600 hp motor with the right mods)... some come with RB20DETs (not much better than SR20DETs) and some come with so-so naturally aspirated motors.
Personally, whatever floats your boat. Frankenstein swaps aren't ever going to be practical, but they're interesting from an engineering point of view.
Heresy? Who the heck cares. When every production car nowadays is an amalgam of parts from different countries, manufacturers (a GM suspension in a Ferrari? orrore!)... Whatever works, works.
But a Skyline-powered Mustang is still kind of silly... I'd rather have the V8 power and the modern suspension.
(yes, that is a V8 in a Skyline)
Not all Skylines come with RB26DETTs... some come with RB25DETs (decent power potential... still a 500-600 hp motor with the right mods)... some come with RB20DETs (not much better than SR20DETs) and some come with so-so naturally aspirated motors.
Personally, whatever floats your boat. Frankenstein swaps aren't ever going to be practical, but they're interesting from an engineering point of view.
Heresy? Who the heck cares. When every production car nowadays is an amalgam of parts from different countries, manufacturers (a GM suspension in a Ferrari? orrore!)... Whatever works, works.
But a Skyline-powered Mustang is still kind of silly... I'd rather have the V8 power and the modern suspension.
(yes, that is a V8 in a Skyline)
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Hmm thats the first time I have seen the Nissan VH V8 get put into a R32, seen quite a few R33's and R34's but yet a R32.
The V8 swaps are 90% of the time done to non turbo Skylines that the owners suddenly want to go fast but want something different, they are quite limited in the end though.
Only 600? Plenty getting around with much more than that (driven daily too)
The V8 swaps are 90% of the time done to non turbo Skylines that the owners suddenly want to go fast but want something different, they are quite limited in the end though.
Only 600? Plenty getting around with much more than that (driven daily too)
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Oh? What's the po on the 25? 700? 800? I haven't heard of much more... not many guys running RBs here... many drift conversions make do with the much cheaper SR20DET. Still, interesting engines... much easier to source off the boat than 26s.
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Potential? dunno there is a few happy 800hp 25's (many daily's) around here but usually due to the ease of access to RB30's they use RB25 or 26 heads on RB30 blocks, RB 30 block gives some extra stroke to play with but has a poor block cast design, which doesn't matter all that much as they are so cheap and common. At the drags there is plenty of 30's over 1000.
but as for 600's there are tons of them here.
Few 700-750 SR's around here also (one being a close friend which has lasted a very long time).
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What would fit that Mustang better? Probably a Ford engine! 💡
As far as I'm concerned, keep that POS out of american cars. Japanese engines go in japanese cars
As far as I'm concerned, keep that POS out of american cars. Japanese engines go in japanese cars
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Couldn't have said it any better myself 👍
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How about a 2JZ-GTE?
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To clear up my previous statement, japanese engines are good engines. When they go where they don't belong though, that's when they become ugly pieces of ****
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Likewise, rather than a Holden engine, I'd have put a Nissan Titan mill in that Skyline had I wanted a V8. Do believe there's a Z33 with that setup in the Formula D series.
