Engine Option (Just For Discussion)

[blykins]

Originally Posted by Buzz

By your "logic" that you're passing around here, 90%+ of the cars owned by members here are lowly kit cars. Outside of the tiny minority that own alloy bodied "replicas", all of the rest are composite bodied cars with various mixes of chassis, suspension and miscellaneous other departures from the original cars that disqualify them from being replicas. In that case, WTH difference does it make what powertrain we choose when we're all driving "kit cars" anyway?
You decide that engine brand is the deal breaker, but to others it might be wheelbase, stance, appearance, suspension, rollbars or any of a dozen other criteria. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. Like everyone else you're welcome to your opinion - just don't try to push it as the gold standard criteria of judgement.

I haven't decided anything. I'm just merely making a point that everyone's ego, pride, and mood are not letting them get.

If someone said to you, "Buzz, I'm giving you the task of making a copy of this '67 427 Corvette. I'm going to go buy the engine for it, what do you want me to pick up?" What would you tell them? A Viper V-10?

That's all I'm saying. There are guys in Club Cobra Land that want to try and duplicate the originals as closely as they can. For them, the engine choice (and everything else) should be obvious. On the other hand, there are also guys in Club Cobra Land that are satisfied with not duplicating the originals. For them, they can reach for whatever engine, transmission, rollbar, wheels, etc., that they want and feel comfortable with it.

Frankly, I don't give a rat's booty which side of Club Cobra Land you're on. It's your own prerogative. I'm not here to dog someone's personal choices or opinions, but just make a very simple point.

Now what is a kit car? IMO, if your car came in a thousand boxes and you had to hand assemble each and every part, then you have a kit car. If your car came as a rolling chassis and you had to stab an engine in it, I can't see that as being a kit. The general population (the non-savvy out there) see a kit car as something you bought and put together yourself.....or that '86 Fiero with a Lambo body kit.