[Christ]

Originally Posted by JackMcCornack

jamesqf notes...
> ...Hondas (and Toyotas etc) are just nicely broken in at 100K, when your typical American cars are about ready for that trip to the recycler

The Chevy/Geo Metro qualifies as an "etc" (Suzuki made 'em, GM badged 'em).

Christ writes...
> ...As to the OP's claim of engine swap ability - This alone would make me want it.

The fly in the engine swap ointment is the long (wide?) four cylinder engines use an offset transaxle--however I can't think of a reason not to use the 1.3 liter transaxle with a 993 engine so it could still be an easy swap. I'm also considering making the rear subframe assembly a bolt-on instead of a weld-on, which would make the engine swap operation maybe 20 times harder than changing a tire (though you'd need two transaxles and two sets of wheels/brakes/axles/shocks/etc and the bulk of the wiring and the computer would have to stay with the subframe). Anyway, I wasn't thinking literally of swapping engines in one car depending on my mood, I was thinking that if somebody wanted to build a fast one, they could, rather than build themself one optimized for mileage.

I think this is where we had something confused - I thought you'd be mounting the setup longitudinally, instead of transverse, and using the same bellhousing pattern for the Geo's engine, but not actually using the Geo's transaxle.

For instance, a RWD T45 transmission with a Cast aluminum bell housing that was a match to the T45's gear box and the G-series bell pattern.