TheSamba.com :: View topic - What engine? 3.0ltr Honda in my new buggy?

Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:03 am

Iam out of dfw texas and recently started building another buggy. Iam going to use it for off-road, and also highway. I want power and torque lots of it. But I need to stay within 3k budget. I came across a Honda 3.0 vtec engine from an 05 accord, its a buddy of mine and he wants $1000. for it the car was rear ended about 5 months ago and it's been sitting since then with 49k miles on the car. There's also a 2.4ltr Honda and an ej25 subaru engine, any other suggestions on diffrent engines? I want to be able to run my built 091 transmission. I will try and post pictures up soon.

Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:29 am

Honda V-6. Adpater from Hecker Machine. Modified harness from any number of good folks ("Kraut n Rice", for example)

Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:59 am

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Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:32 pm

Fight my ignorance here, but don't the Hondas spin the wrong direction?

Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:36 pm

Not the V-Tec 6's.

Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:34 pm

DeMinimis wrote: Not the V-Tec 6's.
All of the V6's and all 4 cylinders that have a timing chain,K series.

Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:34 pm

i had one and i was talking with my neighbor who had one and he was telling me how you had to do some mod with the crank and something about how the output shaft came out of the oil pan and you had to have that changed. i just ended up selling it to him. :lol:

Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:15 pm

runslikeapenguin wrote: i had one and i was talking with my neighbor who had one and he was telling me how you had to do some mod with the crank and something about how the output shaft came out of the oil pan and you had to have that changed. i just ended up selling it to him. :lol:

That was an older Acura design.it was a front wheel drive car with a normally(front to rear)mounted engine.the engine still turned clockwise :shock:

Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:16 pm

baja5 wrote: runslikeapenguin wrote: i had one and i was talking with my neighbor who had one and he was telling me how you had to do some mod with the crank and something about how the output shaft came out of the oil pan and you had to have that changed. i just ended up selling it to him. :lol:

That was an older Acura design.it was a front wheel drive car with a normally(front to rear)mounted engine.the engine still turned clockwise :shock:

that would be it, more work than i wanted to do.

Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:19 pm

If you separated the engine from the transaxle it would be no more work than any other engine.