Wow, as far as fabrication goes, you people are scared of things of such.

Spec R. A project is a project. Something you work on at work while youre supposed to be doing 20 other things :lol:

Project hatch. Interesing idea, but I dont think poping an 8.8 rear in that is going to be hard at all, Im taking a sawzall to the deck of the boot, so all of that will be re welded in, even if I have to tub it.

 

You could make it rear engine...like hemi under glass, save alot transer/power loss and would be cool as hell and a one of a kind.

 

I dont think the 302 would fit in the boot.

 

The boot huh?

So you think it's gonna fit under the bonnet easily?

 

Less the carb (though I have been thinking of going EFI since someone brought it up, *shrug* its not that its hard, its that do I really want to spend my time doing it) everything should go under there just fine.

 

Well i'm all outa ideas, good luck to you and i'd like to see the finished product.

 

Thanks

Im surprized less people were pissed about this. Seems I got more "Youre not going to finish this" than anything else, from people who dont know me, have never met me, and just go off of their experiences in the past with other people... who are not me. Doesnt make sense, but Ive done it too when I was young and niave and doubtful of others.

 

There was a 5th gen Accord that was for sale on eBay a couple years ago that had a Chevy 350 swapped into it with a RWD conversion, subfloor reinforced with new rails installed and a full internal cage for extra support.

Is it impossible? no
Is it common practice? no

I think the reason you may catch shit is because to a lot of people out here modding their car involves picking an item off the shelf and putting it in or on their car. I have a bit more open mind than some possibly because of the amount of time I have spent around a wide variety of vehicles in various forms of bastardization.

I will say this though...your cost estimate of $1200 is extremely conservative, I am almost positive that to do this is going to run a final bill closer to $10k and I also think that from reading your plan of action you are not quite as prepared to go into this as you think.

do a shit load of research into the design of this thing including torsional ridgidity issues, suspension (notably front end) issues and a realistic traction setup for the rear. there is more but I got shit to do and I am not going to handhold anyone through this kind of research.

I once drove a smallblock powered Civic 1/8 of a mile down a road before I shut it down and walked back telling the guy he can kick rocks if he wants me on the 1/4 mile driving the thing.

 

This will be the last we hear of you because there's no way you will come back to han to announce your obvious failure.

 

Give the man a little credit dude....


I do think that this is a very big undertaking and you'll never see me do it. That being said, if you do pull it off, more power to ya, but if you don't finish it, it wouldn't suprise me either.