I was just wondering if anyone has a layout of a 6-cyl inline engine (cad is nice). I don't have a special engine in mind, just thinking about how much more space it requires. I searched through this forum and did not find what I'm looking for.

Much obliged / Jon

Ive found that most of them are prety long, and unless its a 2 litre or sthg with quite a small bore, and close bore pitch, it is difficult to make it go in the standard locost. You could, of course, build the engine bay 6 inches longer than normal or so. If youre going to do this, i would recommend getting a copy of either Maya, or 3DS Max, so you can model the chassis up and make sure that everything works. either that, or if you're a 2D CAD-phile, make VERY sure that 2 bars aren't going to collide or anything boring like that. VERY boring to find out that the design doesn't work when you've cut steel!

I know what you mean abotu the 6Cylinder though. I almost got hold of a 6Cyl out of an E46 BMW 323. Its a beautiful engine, VVT, Bosch Motronic, Smooth as the proverbial kashmir codpiece, and IIRC about 180 BHP and the torque (thanks to the VANOS vvt) to match. ALLOY BLOCK: 'bout 140 kilos IIRC.

Anyway, i'll stop drivelling on now!

In summary, go to a scrappy on the pretense of getting an engine, measure it up, and make a basic bounding volume (box) in CAD. If it fits, great, if the corners poke out, then investigate further.

Ed.

have a look at jack collins chassis plans http://www.fordsix.com/locost/Collins.pdf

he is running a ford 6cyl

The later E36 had the same engine, known as m52, must be a few knocking about in salvage yards as same block used for 2,2.5 and 2.8ltr. suspect getting it going in a kit would be OK it you could get the original ECU working, might need to trick it into thinking it's still connected to traction control/aircon/ignition key etc. Would be OK if it wasn't for the VANOS which is under ECU control.