Someone Put a 6.2-Liter AMG V-8 In a Custom Lotus Exige

 

Someone Put a 6.2-Liter AMG V-8 In a Custom Lotus Exige

Lotus has already revealed that the Emira, its last gas-powered car and the successor to its entire current line, will offer an optional AMG-sourced 2.0-liter engine. One enthusiast will not have to wait that long to experience an AMG-powered Lotus, though. Nor will he have to settle for a mere four cylinders. Someone Put a 6.2-Liter AMG V-8 In a Custom Lotus Exige

This custom Exige, featured here by the cars.co.za YouTube channel, is powered by an SLS AMG-sourced 6.2-liter V-8. Owner Quentin Boylan says the car produce 570 horsepower at the wheels at altitude and estimates it could reach 650 hp at sea level, well clear of the factory-rated 397 hp produced by the most powerful Exige ever built by Someone Put a 6.2-Liter AMG V-8 In a Custom Lotus Exige

The standard Exige body could not fit the AMG engine, so this Exige is instead covered in a larger custom carbon fiber body meant to look like an Exige. The many difficulties of making a completely new body for a car with a significantly larger swapped engine meant that the project took five presumably very expensive years. Boylan can't answer exactly how expensive the project was, though; when the number comes up, he simply says "I don't know and I don't want Someone Put a 6.2-Liter AMG V-8 In a Custom Lotus Exige

The nature of the car makes any Exige swap incredibly difficult, but there is at least some precedent for big German power in the small British chassis. Back in 2015, someone found a way to fit an entire V-10 from an E60 BMW M5 into their car. Six years later, that project has finally met its match.

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