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Old 06-30-2005, 10:48 PM
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Re: Re: Big Engines In Small Cars..

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Originally Posted by pod
well back in the day (circa 1989 ) there was a company that specialized in putting the 3.4l v8 yamaha out of the tarus sho into the back end of the of a festiva all set up for it. they turned the engine bay into a cargo area and put it into the back seat area then converted it into a rear engine rear wheel drive vehiclethe cost of the entire transformation was about 120000 but you had a festiva that could do 160 and get into the mid 11s on the drag track it was called the festiva shogun
and jay leno owns one thats on the bottle.
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