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Just saw this thing on HybridZ, 90mm bore, 89mm stroke dry sumped L series block with an RB26 head.

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Sexy. Sorry to all those who couldn't view it, I had to sign in to view the Photo. Interesting. Wish you hadn't gone to all the trouble of fitting the whole engine now Daniel?
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Whoops, didn't realise, I've fixed it now.

And nah, it looks like it was an awful lot of work looking at the custom belt drive etc etc. It's only a block anyway and the RB has a girdle factory. He said something about keeping the block so he can run in a particular racing class, seems a bit silly they'd allow a completely different head but an original-ish block.
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The blocks are OK, the crank I'd be worried about. Does seem interesting rules. But interesting engineering exercise too. Yeah lots of work, and a compromise on the RB.
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Seems like a huge amount of time and effort for the gains involved. Still, it's probably more sensible than cutting up and welding 3 KA24DE heads to make one 6 cylinder head for an L series like that other guy did.
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Do you have the hybrid z link?

I've seen a guy in japland fit an RB20e head to an L6, actually sounded awesome although it appeared like a stupid amount of work just for a cross flow head.
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The dude is in Oz, says he does or used to work for Gibson Motorsport.

http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/top ... am-l6-34l/
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I love the intense amount of engineering that went into that.

If i was and engine builder i would do stuff like that just because I could.
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