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eBay Find: This Little 1972 Honda Is Crying Out For A V8 Swap!


eBay Find: This Little 1972 Honda Is Crying Out For A V8 Swap!

We’ve got to thank the Mopar loving Tom Yeager for the indirect tip on this 1972 Honda that’s for sale on eBay. We’re not sure how he found it but let’s just say that we are glad he did. The car is a 1972 Honda AZ 600, which by our calculations makes little horsepower and seats a couple of people in relative comfort. Relative as we’re comparing it to a bed of nails. The car has a tiny little engine that has been made to sound better with the addition of a pair of side pipes and mufflers usually found on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. We have to imagine that this car is amazingly slow. All that stuff being said, the thing looks pretty cool and we’ve never seen other one. Also, this car is screaming out for a V8 swap and a set of 275-drag radials on the back of it. The only real debate is as to what type of engine to put in the car.

Sure, an LS swap would be the easiest way to go and hell, some company probably makes motor mounts for it already. A hemi would be the cool way to go because that engine would have to be mounted so high in the engine bay to fit that 3/4 of it would be hanging out in the breeze and it would look like a life sized Hot Wheels car. We’re of course talking about making it into a drag style car but what about something in the genre of pro touring? It would require a custom frame but how radical would this little breadbox be with a hardcore handling suspension under it and some sticky rubber. The short wheelbase and lightweight would surely make this car a killer in the cones.

So, what would YOU do if you were to purchase this thing. Leave it stock is not an option!

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15 thoughts on “eBay Find: This Little 1972 Honda Is Crying Out For A V8 Swap!

  1. Matt Cramer

    I’d keep it two cylinders and Honda… with a V-twin out of an RC51. Or possibly use the V4 (yes, it’s a 90 degree V4!) out of a ST1300.

  2. Bryan McTaggart

    I was thinking bike engine swap too. I’m torn between Buell RR1100 and Hyabusa.

  3. Nick D.

    Rotary engine. It needs a bridge-ported 12A with a Weber sidedraft screaming through those side-pipes

  4. 38P

    what would YOU do if you were to purchase this thing . . . Leave it stock (or more accurately, return it to stock). Most show goers have never seen one.

  5. GuitarSlinger

    Nahhhhhhh ! What this little beast is crying out for is a seriously tuned turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa motor under the hood . Turning it into a screaming Camaro /Corvette eating little monster while still looking [ other than the wheels and tires needed to tame the thing ] like a Japanese Econobox .

    Now that ! Sounds like about as much fun as one can have in a car with their cloths still on !

    Slap a few flames on the hood [ just to inflame the competition ] and call it a done deal . Beep Beep Zip Bang my ____ !

  6. Bryan

    If I was going drag car, a GMC Syclone or Buick GNX V-6 hooked to a Powerglide. And some long ass wheelie bars out back to keep it planted. For a cone carver, stay Honda and get the motor and driveline out of an NSX.

  7. Burner303

    No one here has mentioned the Motus V4, which is essentially a 1/3rd scale LS engine with half the cylinders, but somehow still sounds like a V8, and the engines can put out n/a 165-185 hp. A company makes adapters to mount a T5 to the back of it. Ditch those sidepipes and stick on some 6×12″ minilites like you’d find on a og mini cooper. Oh man… can you imagine the insane-o fun that this car would be, and it’d be the only one in any show or autocross anywhere.

  8. Red Hot 71

    I remember that car well. As a kid fourteen or so at the time, riding in one to little league practice. Riding with a friends dad, my friend, myself and my younger brother. I was tall close to 6′ at the time so I had to ride in the front. With us three we had gloves, baseball shoes, and a bat, all four of us were poured into that car.

    What do I remember most? The old man smoked like a chimney, the ash tray was always over flowing with ash and butts, he was always crocked, had a quart bottle of Rainier between his legs, and the hills a little faster than walking speed. After all these years I still get a smile.

  9. 3nine6

    Remember seeing one of these with a BBC at the ’81 Street Machine Nats in Indy.

    1. Jbsjunk

      I remember reading about it way back when, when odd was this thing with a big block in it.

  10. Beaver Martin

    I’d keep it Honda with a B18A and a big ol’ turbo, RWD out of an S2000 if it would fit. Money being no object then I’d put in a AWD system consisting of the rear end and trans from a manual CRV coupled to a JDM B18 or K20, the widest mini-lite wheels and some huge fender flairs, fender mount sideview mirrors complete the Japanese kamakazi look. I’ve always wanted one of these little buggers.

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