I have to agree with you. The soul of a car is its engine. It's at
least half the reason I bought a TR6 and why I love Austin-Healeys - I
have this thing for big, mellow inline sixes. I saw a Healey recently
with a big 4-banger Nissan engine conversion and an automatic tranny.
It was a well done job, the car is fast but I'd never own it - it's
not a Healey anymore. That's fine if it's what you like, but it's not
for me.
Jim
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Subject: Re: Spitfire rebuild
Author: lesnyd@bb1t.monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder lesnyd@monsanto.com
314-694-3626) at smtpcc1
Date: 6/26/96 2:54 PM
OK, the pig-sheep thing. Enough conjecture.
All I was trying to say, is that if it's a pig on the inside, it's still
a pig, and if it ain't a pig on the inside it's not a pig. Being an old
farm boy, I actually PREFER pigs to sheep...
>From my past posts, I figured people would understand my philosophy that
when you replace the engine in a car with one from another car, you now
have something that's not EITHER car. Part of what makes a Spit a Spit
is the little 4-banger and the sounds it makes. And while the looks of
a car are an important part of it, how it runs, the sounds it makes,\
how the gearbox shifts, the sounds of the bearings, everything like that
is just as big a part.
In other words, I really don't like the idea of putting a Mazda engine
in a Spitfire body.
Larry
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