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Engine SwapEverything about swapping an engine into your Third Gen.....be it V6, V8, LTX/LSX, crate engine, etc. Pictures, questions, answers, and work logs.
So this is an idea ive had for awhile now and im trying to figure out if it will work or not. Not asking about how much work itll be or anything like that, i just want to know if the general idea is plausible. Can you take a fwd front end and engine from say a sixth gen grand prix which has a 1” difference on the wheel base, effectively making it fwd. Then also putting a second engine behind the front seats to power the read axle and programming it all to work together with the electronic throttle to effectively make an awd twin engine camaro. The only thing i can think of causing problems is room for everything, especially two transmissions. Anyone with more expertise to tell me itll work or im crazy would be appreciated.
You can build anything but how much effort do you wanna put into it? Totally doable I think just gonna be hard with space. Lots and lots of custom fabrication.
My thought process is the front end of a grand am, transaxle and all, to have it power the front, and either doing a fiero type rear with the engine right behind the front seat, or possibly a northstar style engine thatll take up less room?
At SEMA someone put two 6BT Cummins in an old Dodge pickup, side by side, so yes what you want to do IS possible. But it wil be a TON of work,not to mention getting those engine in sync with each other.
More of a question of is it worth it to you in the end with all the time and money you will have to spend? And since Time=money it is money squared, and speed=money and how many cubic dollars do you want? I don't know where I am going with this, just read the first part, lol
At SEMA someone put two 6BT Cummins in an old Dodge pickup, side by side, so yes what you want to do IS possible. But it wil be a TON of work,not to mention getting those engine in sync with each other.
More of a question of is it worth it to you in the end with all the time and money you will have to spend? And since Time=money it is money squared, and speed=money and how many cubic dollars do you want? I don't know where I am going with this, just read the first part, lol
You don't have to get them in sync with each-other really. Most of the 3.8 guys do it by having two separate transmission brackets + two throttles.
These projects are by no means what I would consider a street car. They might be legally streetable, but they aren't street cars. Below is probably the most steetable example I've seen.
In the 60's Tommy Ivo had a rail dragster that had two engines driving the front wheels and two engines driving the rears...Made a lotta smoke, but in a drag race environment, as the weight would transfer to the rear, the front tires would unload and just smoke & wander side to side....interesting experiment, but never worked very well....
