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Most Inexplicable Engine Swap In The World - Hyundai Engine In Porsche 911

Bisimoto Engineering, a company from Canada that has completed over 1,000 tuning projects, is working on four cars for the 2017 SEMA Show.
Porsche 911 body with its next engine, a Lambda-series V6 from Hyundai 4 photos
Photo: Bisimoto on Instagram
Bisimoto CEO with one of the company's projects, a twin-turbo Porsche 930One of the company's projects, a twin-turbo Porsche 930Hyundai USA was tagged in Bisimoto's Instagram post
The most uncommon of them will be a Porsche 911, which will have a V6 engine. If this did not rattle your inner Porsche fan, sit down to read what kind of V6 engine will be installed. Ready? Bisimoto will fit a Hyundai V6 engine in a 911, instead of the flat-six unit made by the German company.

For the moment, all we have is a picture posted on Instagram, which shows an engine and the rear end of a Porsche 911 after it has been dismantled. As Autoblog notes, the guys at Bisimoto were kind enough to tag Hyundai USA in the picture, and we have a screen grab to prove it - you can see it in the photo gallery.

While the type of Hyundai V6 engine was not announced officially, it appears that the unit that will be used is a Lambda-series power plant. We expect the specialists at Bisimoto to tune the engine accordingly so that they will justify its presence under the hood of a Porsche 911.

For some, this might not be the most insane engine swap in the world, as people have placed a Ferrari V8 or a Nissan GT-R engine in a Toyota GT86, or a Lamborghini V12 in the back of a classic Fiat 500, just to mention a few eccentric builds.

While cars like a classic Volkswagen Beetle with a radial engine, a smart fortwo with a Suzuki Hayabusa powertrain, or many other freakish builds seem to make sense in the end, stuffing a Hyundai engine in a Porsche just seems wrong to us.

However, we will give the Canadians at Bisimoto a chance to prove themselves. Instead of being excessively polite, we hope that Bisimoto’s engineers will tune the Hyundai V6 like there’s no tomorrow, and show everyone that they wanted to do more than just a proof of concept.

 

Project #2 of 4: the #SEMA madness continues. This 2017MY #OEM project will be the craziest, most unorthodox build to ever grace the #Bisimoto stable. Stay tuned for magnificent updates.

A photo posted by Bisi Ezerioha (@bisimoto) on Aug 8, 2016 at 6:29pm PDT

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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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