Re: Family line of the 3.2 V6
Originally Posted by BullFrog
Also you forgot the 430 4.3 V8 engine from Mercedes comes from the same family line of engines as the 3.2 sharing alot of the technology and some parts if i remember correctly. These two were MB's two new engines at the time in 1997 appearing in '98 model year. They had identical architecture (except for extra pistons and displacement on the 4.3) and also shared the same valve configuration.
BullFrog now that would be the ideal part swap, placing a small block V8 into the Crossfire, forget all that trash about flashing the ecu, air filters, headers, and etc..... I mean a V8 under the hood of a Chrysler Crossfire..... HOOAH!! Yes I know I saw the 2003 Startech Crossfire V8, but brother this would be a backyard engine swap, heck anyone can buy horsepower (if you got all that money), remember we're talking "sleepers" here, and part swapping.
Talk about the sound.... and smoking rear tires at a red light when you find yourself heads up with a 5.0 Mustang...... If the small block happen to be an engine from the same family as the V6 in our Crossfires, hooah, all you would need to do is a few measurements and then set it right into the same hole, and do a few exhaust mods, etc. I know now your thinking "but you'll need to beef up the suspension, brakes and aerodynamics", I say screw all that trash. Just take it out on the cruise strip, refuse to rise your hood and kick azz. Yes that would be a swap that people on the street would talk about for many years. After all your only doing this for straight line speed, HP, and that wonderful deep sound that can only be had with a V8, and oh yeah “people knowing you got one of a kind, a V8 in a Crossfire, and you did it yourself.” Now thats what I'm talking about.
Last edited by FirebaseD; Dec 2, 2005 at 08:39 PM.