- They shouldn't put that engine in that car!
I'm losing my mind right now.
(8-bit explosion)
We love engine swaps around here
but there's starting to get a little out of hand.
Today we're talking about some of the most impressive
and downright irresponsible engine swaps on YouTube,
where I live.
I'm James, this is the Monolist,
and this is the--
- [Voice Over] D-List.
- We're gonna kick the list off with a K swap.
And no, I'm not talking about (beep).
There are a million K swapped cars on YouTube right now.
It's a great engine, makes a lot of sense.
But one of my absolute favorites
is from our friend from StanceWorks, Mike Burroughs.
He's got a K 24 swapped Ferrari 308.
Why would someone put a Honda minivan engine in a Ferrari?
Well, the original engine that came in the 308 was a V8,
good, for a good old 163 Italian horse powers.
But, that wasn't good enough for my boy Mike.
Mike has built a bunch of really crazy stuff.
And he's building this yellow Ferrari
into a time attack car
and he needs a little bit more power baby.
1000 powers to be exact.
Turns out one of the best ways to do that
is with a turbo charged K swap.
These K series engines are cheap.
Honda made like a billion of them,
and they can handle a ton of power.
Mike has been documenting the whole build
over on his YouTube channel, StanceWorks,
I'm gonna put the link in the description
along with all the channels we're featuring on this list.
This is a really impressive car.
Some might call it outrageous.
But we aren't even close to
as outrageous as we're gonna get.
We're gonna get way out-there-rageous.
Well, our next swap is also a Ferrari,
only this one has a big fat Chevy V8 situated
in the engine part of the car.
And this ain't just any Ferrari,
it's a 1963 250 GTE
and these things are worth like half of a million dollars.
That's 500,000 dollars.
The mad scientist
who built this sick creation's named Joe.
So guess what?
He calls it the Joerarri.
(James chuckles)
When he bought it, it was literally a discarded body shell
that someone ripped off a chassis,
so they could make a clone of the Ferrari 250 GTO,
a much more expensive car.
But as I always say, one man's Ferrari trash,
is another man's Joerarri.
I say it all the time, ask my mom.
She lives with me, I don't live with her.
So Joe built a custom chassis which houses a DZ 302,
one of Chevy's best small block V8's ever.
Plus, it also has a viper transmission.
(James hisses)
A Ford rear end, and a Mitsubishi paint color
and guess what?
Ferrari owners were not happy about it.
I think that's cool.
So it earns a coveted spot on the all knowing Monolist.
I'm legally obligated to say this,
the Joerarri was originally featured on RoadHeads Media,
one of the esteemed automotive publications.
Congrats on your 1000th sub you guys, well earned.
That's Max's old YouTube channel.
Did I do it right?
Can we move on?
But enough Ferrari talk let's move onto a car for everybody,
a car known for not having any power.
I'm talking bout a Prius.
Now, a few years ago we saw this video of a
rear-wheel drive Toyota Prius
whipping around a track with a 1JZ under the hood.
That's what they put in the Toyota Chaser, all right?
I will not be including this 1JZ swapped Prius on the list
because it ain't got a 1JZ anymore.
Jack!
It's got something weirder.
It's got freaking Barra swap.
(engine revving)
Barra engine is an in line 6 cylinder
produced by Ford Australia for the Falcons.
It's basically Australia's 2JZ
and it's a certified beef cake casserole
or hot dish, depending on where you're from.
All right a stock bottom can handle 600 horse power.
I'll tell you, there's more horses
than most bottom ends can handle.
Most peoples bottom ends can't even handle one horse.
(James chuckles)
Back to the elephant in the room,
which is Kasey's Prius.
Now you might be wondering,
how does one fit a four-liter in line six
into a small engine baby Toyota Prius?
Well you learn, fabricate, and you make it fit.
You build a tube front end to house the engine
and also protect it because it's a fricking drift Prius.
It's freaking sick.
And it belongs on the Monolist.
That was a Japanese car with a Ford engine
so lets,
♪ Flip the script ♪
Do a Ford with a JDM power plan,
I'm talking about one of the most hyped builds
of the last year.
TJ Hunt's RB26 Mustang GT.
You know how they did this swap in Tokyo Drift?
Well TJ was talking to Sung Kang a while back
and Sung told him they prefer the look of the Mustang
over the RX7.
This is what inspired TJ to make his own interpretation
of the car from the movie,
but he made it even better.
It still has that classic fast back styling
and you'd never know
there was a freaking GTR motor under the hood
with a giant gear turbo.
I mean listen to this thing.
(engine revs)
That's what literal dreams are made out of.
- That's so cool.
- This swap took six months of work
and TJ made a lot of people mad
by ripping out the perfectly good 351 Windsor
and for that, it earns a spot, on the Monolist.
(explosion)
Next up, we got freaking V12 swapped Miata.
They put a V12 in a Miata, how?
I don't know.
Why? Beats me.
Who? Some guy name Gareth, okay?
Any more questions?
No.
For some reason, Gareth had a 1GZFE
from a Toyota Century lying around
and needed a car to put it in.
And the first car he thought of was a Miata.
Does Miata really always have to be
the answer for everything?
Well according to Gareth, it's the answer to this.
He somehow managed to fit this beautiful V12 with ITBs
and 12 into one exhaust under the hood,
of his dainty little Miata, all right?
And if you wanna check it out,
you can find him on YouTube.
That V12 Miata Bruh.
Well my friends, the absurdity hasn't even started yet.
I go on record saying that, your honor.
We gotta talk about Tesla swaps.
Right now if you wanna swap a Tesla drive system
into an old car, it's a complicated expensive process,
but it's totally do-able,
and people have done it, all right?
There's a number of interesting Tesla swapped cars
over the last few years.
The most recent one that caught our attention, was this.
A square body Chevy C10 that de-budded at Sema,
or as I like to call it, Sema.
There's two Tesla Model S motors
that's supposed to make over 800 all wheel horse power
and like a million foot pounds of torques.
Shout out to Salvage to Savage.
Now I think these swaps are only gonna become more
and more affordable and common in the next few years,
but you know what's not?
The literal opposite.
I'm talking about putting a combustion engine
inside of a Tesla.
More specifically, a fricking LS.
Rich Rebuilds is known for fixing busted Teslas
and doing electric Tomfoolery over on his YouTube channel.
But he also recently took an LS3 from a Camaro SS
and managed to fit it, in the front of a Tesla Model S.
And if he's not calling it the Model SS,
I'm calling the cops.
But this isn't just a typical hodge podge Sema build,
it took him over a year to put together
and he had to take some extreme measures,
like cutting the floor pan in half,
so the manual transmission had a place to go.
I mean, it's gotta go somewhere.
Rich is even building it in stages
and is eventually gonna plop a supercharger on that LS 3.
Breaking news.
Since we filmed this episode,
Rich Rebuilds has announced that he is also making
a Cummins swapped Tesla.
So guess what?
That's on the list now too.
Speaking of flipping the script on LS swaps,
here's a bonkers one.
Rob Dahm's rotary swapped Corvette.
Now, a little bit of context, okay.
LS swapped RX7's are extremely common,
to the point of basically being a meme at this point.
Now, a lot of RX7 owners get fed up with the finicky-ness
of a 13V rotary engine so they opt for a more affordable
and reliable power source, an LS.
Rotary fans, I know that they can be reliable
if you treat them right.
I love rotaries, I think they sound great, okay,
so don't light torches
and come after me like a bunch of villagers,
'cause I'm not Frankenstein, okay?
I'm a man.
Speaking of Frankenstein's,
Rob has been dabbling in the dark arts of rotary engines
for a little while now.
His forerunner swapped FV is freaking sick.
So he decided to do the exact opposite of an LS swapped RX7,
he bought a C5 Corvette from a salvage auction,
proceeded to swap in a dainty little 1.3 liter
turbo charged 13V engine,
which made around 550 horse powers.
Not bad.
Plus it sounds like a stuck pig.
Get on the list.
Rob has already purchased a salvage C8
and has promised that he's gonna rotary swap that one too.
So if you're panties are in a knot over the C5,
♪ They're gonna be in a bigger knot soon ♪
I would like to take this moment
to give an honorable mention to Standkes_garage.
We were gonna give them a top spot on this list
for their Honda RSX powered by not one but two LS engines.
One in the front and one in the back.
But, the project was a little ambitious
and now the tiny Honda is only powered by one LS engine.
So good on you for trying Ryan,
but the Monolist says you gotta have two LS's
to make it on the top.
So now is when the lists starts to get insane,
as if it wasn't already.
Every single engine up to this point has been a car engine.
But what if you wanna go crazier than that?
Yeah?
You want to kick it up a notch, you sicko?
Let's see if this next car
doesn't make you wanna barf out of your nose.
A Ford Crown Victoria with a twin turbo charged tank engine.
What?
The team of Swedish automotive deviants
from the Meteor Interceptor YouTube channel
managed to swap this 27 liter V12 into a car.
That's nine bottles of Faygo, they're are 3 liters.
The engine was made by Rolls Royce
and was used in British tanks up until 1965.
How it found it's way into an American cop car in Sweden
is beyond me, but if you wanna see how they did it,
check them out on the Tube.
And somehow this isn't even the most outrageous,
unnecessary completely irresponsible swap on this list,
no, that distinct honor goes to, a Volkswagen new beetle.
Hmm, what engine could possibly be in one of those?
I wonder.
A 2J?
An SR?
I don't know, freaking Bugatti engine?
We're going tanks already, no?
What's the only thing cooler than a tank?
A fricking jet, that's right!
This bad boy's got a jet engine in it.
Jet bug.
This absolute unit of a beetle
was built by a fricking psychopath by the name of Ron,
'cause he felt like the world didn't have enough chaos.
The tricky part with engine swaps is passing smog
especially if you live in California,
which our friend Ron does.
He wanted to make his VW a little faster
but didn't wanna get in trouble with the old DMV.
So the solution that he came up with,
was to keep the original engine under the hood,
and mount an auxiliary jet engine in the trunk.
Normal stuff.
Nothing to see here, definitely street legal.
Oh, that back there?
That's a grill,
I'm giving it to my daughter for her birthday.
You're probably wondering
how much power a jet engine like this makes.
And Ron has said that he doesn't wanna see how fast it is
out of fear of killing himself.
The T58 turbo shaft engine is rated
for around 1350 horse power
but that's not even why it's the most bonkers car
in this list.
The real reason is the price tag.
This thing showed up on Craigslist last year,
yes, Craigslist, with an asking price of 550,000 dollars.
And I thought my swapped VW
was sketchy to drive in California.
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