You pay a premium for that engine because boomers like to put it in their period replicas and the like since the valve cover makes it look like it's out of a 1960's formula car.
Fieros
Caleb Ramirez
Sebastian Stewart
kek true. Honestly, an ecotech or LSJ would be bretty neat.
Connor Wood
Yeah, but then you've got a Fiero that has an engine bay that wouldn't look out of place in a Formula 1 garage.
Not all things boomers like are shit, the W41 Quad 4 is fucking legit.
Especially free'd up and on a 98 octane or 110 octane tune.
Jonathan Bailey
Finding a legit W41 engine is rare as fuck, The best thing you can do is get one of the 180 HP high output Quad 4's, then swap in the W41 camshafts and the W41 specific ECU chip. IIRC, they're still available from GM. The camshafts and ECU chips was all that separated the W41 from a standard high output engine.
Elijah Green
>Finding a legit W41 engine is rare as fuck,
They sold 1280 W41 cars over 3 years.
And they sold W41 crates until 1999.
I've seen two real ones, 3 that were probably just LG0s made into clones.
Hell, an LG0 is a rare motor these days.
Sebastian Peterson
> mid-engine car for drifting
why don't you do some learning ok
Aaron Sanchez
>Dorifto?
No. You're more likely to kill yourself attempting it.
Related:
youtube.com
and this link will skip to the spot showing why drifting it isn't a good idea.
youtu.be
Charles Martin
How bad would a 400 sbc fuck up the transaxle whatchamacallit these things have?
Liam Brooks
You'll start snapping axle shafts somewhere around 450 ft lbs, if you hook like mad. Stronger axle shafts can be had made by sectioning the axle shafts from a Saab 9-5.
But if you've got the 5 speed getrag, the axles will break before the box, and if you want a really strong transaxle, a Getrag F23 out of a early 00s Cavalier will take north of 500 foot lbs with stock internals. Auto trans are much weaker.
If you use manifolds or tight wrap headers, it's not even that hard to make them fit, the biggest trouble is making or finding an adapter plate/spacer to convert your Chevy V8 bell housing to a GM Transverse V6 Bell Housing, and space your engine off the bellhousing far enough to clear the thicker longitudinal flywheel.
Or you can get an LS4 5.3 out of a Grand Prix GXP or Monte Carlo/Impala SS, and a Spec adapter flywheel.
Strongest auto transaxle you can fit in a Fiero would be the TH425, but that'd orient the engine longitudinally, and require more clearance than exists stock, for the front of your V8, though it fits nice with a Buick 3.8 Turbo out of a GNX.
Second strongest would be a 4T80HD out of a Bonneville GTP/Cadillac DTS.
Wyatt Martinez
Did you never get an upgraded rear sway?
The 3800 swaps I've driven were always neutral under maintenance throttle, but had terrible lift off oversteer.