Cars overloaded with electronics

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I have nostalgic feelings about some older vehicles, but I would want to retrofit a modern engine into all of them.

Sometimes I lurk about how an improved derivative of an older engine could be suitable to a modern car. Even if such old engine is not so ancient at all...

[freebeard]

Sometimes I lurk about how an improved derivative of an older engine could be suitable to a modern car. Even if such old engine is not so ancient at all...

Like swapping a Subaru boxer four for the Beetle/Samba engine?

[Piotrsko]

The suburu engine is all the rage in restored late model vanagons converted for camping.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Like swapping a Subaru boxer four for the Beetle/Samba engine?

Well, sort of. Maybe, with an oil cooler, it could still fare quite decently while fitted to a front-engined car...

But I was actually considering random water-cooled 4-cyl engines such as the Chevrolet 153 or the Volkswagen EA827. Sure they're more Brazilian-proof than most modern downsized engines, and would remain Brazilian-proof enough with sequential port-injection instead of a carburettor.