W8 engine swapped Lotus Elise

[Cookson]

01) Lotus Elise W8 Swap Introduction

It all started years ago with the love of the Lotus Elise Series 2, a dream or a fantasy of a car to own when I could afford it. The crazy thing was, by the time I could afford it, owning it wasn't enough. We managed to find my Elise with a stroke of luck in Weston, Missouri about 45 minutes...

schwamotorsports.com

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

How is that going to fit in an Elise?! Surely it's too wide with the effective V-configuration?

 

[White16valver]

01) Lotus Elise W8 Swap Introduction

It all started years ago with the love of the Lotus Elise Series 2, a dream or a fantasy of a car to own when I could afford it. The crazy thing was, by the time I could afford it, owning it wasn't enough. We managed to find my Elise with a stroke of luck in Weston, Missouri about 45 minutes...

schwamotorsports.com

Nice! I've always fancied one of the W8 Passats (or the W12 Phaeton if I had a magic money tree lol)

Surely it gives an elise the weight distribution of a hammer, though?!

 

[Christopher]

What a lad. Makes zero sense but you can't be mad at that kind of f*cking man maths.

 

[R3k1355]

How is that going to fit in an Elise?! Surely it's too wide with the effective V-configuration?

I guess it's been selected because it's relatively short, even if it is kinda wide?

Only 272bhp tho, which is kinda pony for all the work thats involved, especially if they don't wanna screw up the handling.

 

[JB21]

Wow! Fair play for giving it a go, but that will handle like a pig with all that weight at the rear. It'll will just want to swing around like a pendulum under load.

 

[The Psychedelic Socialist]

I guess it's been selected because it's relatively short, even if it is kinda wide?

Only 272bhp tho, which is kinda pony for all the work thats involved, especially if they don't wanna screw up the handling.

Only 272bhp in NA form, but he's added two turbos from an F150 truck so I'd imagine it'll be a fair bit more powerful.

IIRC he talked about running 6psi of boost, not sure what that's going to mean for power.

 

[bashracing]

Why he's using the W8 over the B7 RS4 V8 god only knows

 

[The Psychedelic Socialist]

Why he's using the W8 over the B7 RS4 V8 god only knows

Presumably it's a shorter engine with the overlapping VR4 banks.

 

[Matt Cup]

Someone made a AMG powered Exige so this VAG lump should fit in nicely with some “adjustments”.

 

[Darren S]

Great project, but that has got to be one of the worst blogs I've looked at. At first, I thought there was one page dated from 2017 and that was it?

Car engineering might be his bag - web design clearly isn't - or for the person that he hires to do it.

 

[JimF]

I saw this on Facebook a few days ago, I'll be interested to see the bodywork they plan to use to cover the entire length of a gearbox behind the rear axle. It could end up looking weird.

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

Is it actually done?

That original post is from 2017....

 

[R3k1355]

Yea ongoing, last update in Feb this year.

However the questions over how this will handle remain