[steevdave]

While I'm not saying the guy in college wasn't a liar, there have been many MGB conversions to a V8.

http://www.advanceautowire.com/mgbgtv8/ is just one that I know of. Though I only know because when I was younger, my parents had MGs, sadly my siblings all got one for graduation and I didn't. They figured I would want the computer more.

[userbinator]

Indeed, absurd engine swaps are not too uncommon in the automotive hacking/hot-rodding world.

Here's one of the weirder ones - a 3-cylinder diesel into a 1970 muscle car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxf2WZvEbc

[lostlogin]

6 rotor RX4 800hp street legal - from a crowd down south that do silly things.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/worlds-first-6-rotor-mazda-...