Suggestions on what to do with...

[adamfraser]

An old engine.

Now you're all thinking "What the hell, stick it in a car!".

Story goes, me and a friend have bought an engine, just one from an old car that was going scrap, so we got it for nothing. It's nothing big, it's only a 1litre 4 Cylinder.

So we got the hands on full engine, gearbox and front radiator. We could sell it for parts but the cost over effort wouldnt match up. So we're going to do something a bit different.

I've seen coffee tables being made out of engines, but seems a bit old now. Suggestions so far have included a beer holder or something along those lines.

Open to any suggestions what so ever, it's not to make money, just something to do because we've got nothing else to do

Any suggestions?

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by adamfraser

An old engine.

Now you're all thinking "What the hell, stick it in a car!".

Story goes, me and a friend have bought an engine, just one from an old car that was going scrap, so we got it for nothing. It's nothing big, it's only a 1litre 4 Cylinder.

So we got the hands on full engine, gearbox and front radiator. We could sell it for parts but the cost over effort wouldnt match up. So we're going to do something a bit different.

I've seen coffee tables being made out of engines, but seems a bit old now. Suggestions so far have included a beer holder or something along those lines.

Open to any suggestions what so ever, it's not to make money, just something to do because we've got nothing else to do

Any suggestions?

I'd put it in a kart or something similar. It'd be ridiculously cool.

If not, take it all apart and use it for different things around the house, with different parts having different jobs. Or what you could do i polish it all up and put it in a glass frame in your floor

Lateral thinking ftw.

[baddabang]

Take it apart and sell if for scrap metal?

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by adamfraser

We could sell it for parts but the cost over effort wouldnt match up. So we're going to do something a bit different.

Originally Posted by baddabang

Take it apart and sell if for scrap metal?

Effectively the same thing??

[NSXType-R]

You could turn the pistons into really cool coffee mugs. (If they're big enough.) You'll get a nice set of four.

Or you could use the rods as posts for a lamp or something. Use your inner creative genious.

[baddabang]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

Effectively the same thing??

No. Selling for parts requires disassembling the engine and cleaning the parts. Selling for scrap requires the engine, and a scrapyard.

[Waugh-terfall]

buy an old go-kart and squeeze the engine into it or an old car, stick the engine in it and thrash it

[adamfraser]

Go-Kart idea seems mental, are you all wanting to kill me or something?

[Suka]

I'm with the Go-Kart idea.
When my dad was in his 20's him and a few mates built what they called the beast. They just got an old engine, gearbox and rad and welded it to four wheels. Drove it around fields untill it broke.

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by adamfraser

Go-Kart idea seems mental, are you all wanting to kill me or something?

It's just something i've wanted to do for a while, but won't have the opportunity to do for a while yet. Ridiculously cool and would be so entertaining. Not many better uses.

At Badda: oh right, fair enough, Go-Kart is much cooler tho

[adamfraser]

Hmm, been recommended a lightweight buggy aswell, this could get interesting..

[Zytek_Fan]

Originally Posted by adamfraser

Hmm, been recommended a lightweight buggy aswell, this could get interesting..

Sand rail FTMFW.

[my porsche]

Coffee table?

Clean it up really well, make a engine mount as an integral part of the legs of a table (out of metal) and then a glass top.

[AMGtech55]

Three words, Ride on lawnmower. One of my friends races them its alot of fun.

[kingofthering]

Donate it to charity?


Or bolt on a cheap-o turbo and jack up the power till she blows harder than you-know-who's sister/mother.