You are correct its been done on the Le Mans, not just on Rory's car
on that link you listed but also my 34 Le Mans has A series motor, so I
already have done this swap before (well I never finished the swap, the
motor is in but the body is not finished).
BUT now I want to do it on a 6 cylinder Singer, a much bigger Singer.
The Le Mans originally had a 972cc 4 cylinder motor so the A series swap
is a no brainer. The reason I asked was because I now want to do it to
the 6 cylinder car. I think it was agreed to by most on this list that
the power will be fine, even though I am moving down in cc's, I am
moving up 30+ years in power and it will work. This is the car its
going into
http://singer.rambour.com/4str/
I am leaning towards the 1275 and a 5-speed from Gerard, I think it
will work.
Oh and the best part, I get to remove the 1098 from other car and put
back in a ORIGINAL motor now that I have one to put in, so I get to keep
one original car :)
mike
On 06/04/2013 12:35 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I Googled to see what you have and it's a very handsome car. Much to
> my surprise I found one with an A Series swap already done and also
> found you as a site administrator on the thread:
> http://forum.singercars.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=678 I think the 1275
> would be a great swap. Horsepower would be about the same as original
> and the motor doesn't have that modern OHC look. Best of all,
> somebody has already done the swap before so you won't need to
> reinvent the wheel. I just can't see putting something like an S2000
> motor in a car like this with an old chassis and marginal brakes. The
> 1275 will let you get it on the road, not overstress the platform and
> be reasonably reliable. Once you start trying to put a modern fuel
> injection motor in there you are well on the way to building a hot rod
> that doesn't seem to be like the direction you want to go in.
>
> Looks like a cool project.
>
> Rick
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