A couple of Nissan SR20s would pull a premium one week before Race Wars.

And as we all know, a couple of sr20's will fetch a nice premium one week before race wars... 

My point is not to downplay that. My point is to respect unoriginal builds. I take issue with people trashing an SBC swap solely because “it has been done.” Cool. Doesn’t mean it is crap. 9 times out of 10, the hater is usually driving some damn Camry too.

Being rather intimately familiar with both the relatively reliable BMW S52 / M52 S54 / M54 straight 6 and the LS-series of motors, I can’t imagine why anyone would ever try to swap ANYTHING other than an LS into a vehicle.

I disrespectfully disagree. Porsche engines are time-bombs at the best of times, swapping it for a V8 is a surefire way of improving simplicity and reliability.

And it’s the cheapest way to 400 hp. That might not sound like a huge number in this era of turbos and EFI, but for a 20's-90's car, that is a whole lot of fun.

Whatever keeps an older car on the road is fine with me. The original engine obviously had issues and probably was cost prohibitive in it's own way for the owner of this swap. 

I’ll agree that any engine swap is cool. It gets you out there wrenching, and that’s great.

This article is more of a joke about how often “SBC” gets thrown out there. “Oh, you have a leaky rear main seal? SBC swap.” “Oh, your fuel pump went out? SBC swap.” “Oh, one of your tires is flat? SBC swap.”

Will it 1LE? 

It’s a safe bet that anyone saying that is the person driving the Prius 65 mph in the left lane.

Let’s all make an uninformed opinion on an event we have zero knowledge of and assume the big bad man who is on the other side of the political spectrum from us did this thing he is accused of from decades ago!!! 

Apparently, you do need to take some immediate rectifying measures if you can’t find the 3-inch long lever on the floor next to the door that needs to be opened.

or, have a tool to shatter the glass in case of emergencies. I have one in every car i have ever owned. But yeah the old dude should have read the manual.

The first time I read a story like this, my first thought was “Electric door? wouldn’t there be a manual override?”

I downloaded my last 4 car’s owner’s manuals before I even bought them and read them while I was killing time at the doctor, etc. I always learned something that made them worth reading. Usually, every one of them had a “I didn’t know that!” part. 

It’s a lost cause, Mike. There are just some people in this world that you will never be able to convince them that a little bit of personal responsibility goes a long way for personal safety. I mean, why would I have to worry about *anything* when it’s someone else’s job to make sure I don’t get hurt or dead...…

Please! Tell your dark side brethren. Teach them the new gospel. Bring them into the light. I beg you. 

Great! Thanks for outing yourself as a software engineer. Quit changing shit just to change it! I don’t know how many times I get a software update and afterwards I can’t find any of the basic functions or they don’t work the same anymore and all my customization is gone. If real engineers believe in “if it ain’t broke…

It boggles my mind that there are people who buy cars with electrical release mechanisms for the doors, and don’t IMMEDIATELY do research to locate the mechanical fail-safe, which even the dumbest of common sense would tell you existed SOMEWHERE.

It boggles my mind even more that people refuse to read the manual for…

Yeah, but how many miles did it have before they rolled the odometer back?