I came across a 4.2L Ferrari V8 from a '04-'05 Maserati Quattroporte for sale for only $4,400, including all the accessories except the AC compressor. If you bought this engine, what would you swap it into? Your budget is no more than the engine.

16 Jan 2016

I would make an adapter plate to mate the engine to a FWD transmission from a Cadillac Eldorado or Olds Toronado, then turn it sideways and stuff it into the back of something tiny yet wide, cheap, and unexpected: an AMC Pacer. Ferrari-powered, mid-engined, rear-drive Pacer? Shwing!

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I would swap it into a bmw e36 318i

YESSS!!!!!

Lol that’s what I’m hoping to get as a first car. If I’d have the budget for this swap i could only imagine the insurance company’s reaction.

Company: So let me get this straight, as a first car you have a rwd ferrari engine powered bmw 3 series?

Me: yes… Uhhh… Maybe?

Dont forget the obligatory m badges

Put it in my Subaru legacy

Man…that beauty needs to be strapped on to a naked chassis and you need to hit every apex! Would make a CRAZY track day build! But do whatever. That’s what I would do if I had the skill and knowhow

Like the Roadkill Vette Kart, except with a Ferrari engine?

I would swap it into my car 😂

in a mercedes w201

I’d put it into mine and make a Maserati mustang!

Ultimate sleeper. I’d put it in a MK4 Golf Estate and make it rear drive:D

And mid engined :)

I’d swap it into a civic. Nobody would expect a civic to have Ferrari power.

Either an old Volvo or Audi. Putting an engine like that in a Scooby, ford or old Merc just seems wrong.

I’ve got a Volvo. Just give me the engine and i’ll swap my 2.3 T5 in a other Volvo.

A fiat 500, who wouldn’t want a prancing mouse

Believe it or not, that one’s actually been done, except with a 3.0 V8. It was built by the same guys who built a mid-engined, AWD Fiat 500 powered by a Lambo V12. They had to widebody the Lambo one to make it fit and it looked sick, but I’ve never seen it actually drive — just rev in their garage. The one with the Ferrari V8, though, is functional. Here it is at the track:
https://youtu.be/0ZdIYv_xFUc