This is the most insecure car-engine combination?
You may have heard the name TVR Sagaris. It is a rare British sports car. Only 211 units were made at TVR’s Blackpool plant for the 2005-2006 model year. This door-coupe was unique in its design, featuring a longitudinally mounted inline-six engine that sends power to the rear wheels.
The Sagaris’ stock output was 406 horsepower (303 Kilowatts) at 7,500 rpm, and 349 pound feet (473 Newton-meters), at 5,000. This engine was capable of accelerating from 0-60 miles per hours (0-96 km/h) in 3.7 seconds. That’s impressive, even by today’s standards. You will need to find a new engine if you require more power.
Although everything looked great on paper when the Sagaris launched, the Sagaris proved to be an unreliable model. Some describe those cars as “ticking bombs” with many potential electrical and mechanical problems. What is the best thing that you can do? You can replace the 4.0-liter stock engine with a more fragile one.
A new video is from the Drivetribe channel that shows a Sagaris undergoing engine transplantation. The hood houses a BMW-sourced V10 motor. This is, according to the host, the most unreliable vehicle/motor combination. The engine is too large to fit under the hood, so there is no hood or bonnet.
How do you start such a project? The owner describes that he had two V10 engines on the side, waiting to be fitted into a car. The large unit wouldn’t fit in the Sagaris. It was done.