It has been done in MG Midgets, which as Rob noted shared the same engine as the Spit in it’s later form, there is more room in the Spitfire engine compartment, and maybe more importantly the transmission tunnel.  So yes, should be very doable.

A rotary fits really well, and they handle even better.

I seem to remember grassroots or some other magazine doing an article on a rotary spitfire.. Ro-Spit they called I think. Absolutely glorious little machine to me since I’m truly in love with both the motor and the car.

One of my favorite Grassroots projects, ever:

As long as you don’t mind the removal of the “reliable” and “dead easy to work on” components. 

My bud had an MGB with a rotary, he would eat 5.0 Mustangs for breakfast.

With surgery, it has been done before. Yes

You spelled LS wrong

Given how rust-prone the frames on these little devils are, the oil leak should be viewed as a feature, rather than a bug

I thought it was good karma to own a car made the year I was born. Then it got totaled while parked and I had to reevaluate.

I’ve seen some Triumphs retrofitted with modern Ford SPI engines. Reliable, dead easy to work on. That’s what I’d do here. 

For fuck sake, can we have an under-car picture?

Add a portable building in back for a strip club, locate near the front gate of a Navy base, and I would like your number so I can invest or talk partnership.

Do you think you could sublet part of your dealership for me to open my pawn shop, tattoo parlor and payday advance all in one shop?

Every Land Cruiser I drove in a Combat Zone was White

I’m all for green cars, but not “Army green.” I wish Americans would stop fetishizing the military. C’mon, does everything need to be “tactical” now from trucks to pens? All this machoness is absurd. Anyone driving an Army green or Desert Storm tan colored truck who didn’t serve in the military is a poseur, and anyone…

You know my motto: Alpinas, All The Time.

CP for all the friggin trash in the photos.

Some people would probably fall for that pyramid scheme.

Or: Can we just burn the “Discovery Institute” to the ground. Maybe put some townhouses, a trolley, and a bike boulevard there instead.