I don’t want to hear one word about this Hyundai Excel being LS-swapped. Not even from the LS hate crowd. Using the logic that it’s wrong to LS-swap a car that didn’t originally come with one, this is a fine example of two wrongs making a right. The car is a Hyundai Excel (Accent for the U.S. market) and the LS2 underneath the hood…yeah, you read that part right…shoves power through a TH400 out to a Ford Falcon XH rear end. Burnout contest car or not, that setup equates tire-frying good times! WHYNOT Racing has the right idea with this little Hyundai: instead of being so damned worried about why this isn’t a good idea, slap it together and figure out if it works or not. The Hyundai sucks stock, and there are plenty of orphaned LS motors in yards across America that could use a home. Spare the Fords and give a Korean econoturd a real reason to live!
I had an ’07 Accent hatchback that I bought new with no options except A/C. The car was bulletproof, save for a spring in the rear hatch release that rusted out. I loved that little crapcan and would still have it, but I needed a bigger vehicle when my son came along. The only bad thing about the car was that it was pretty wound out at 70 MPH. A 6th gear would have helped out tremendously. As would have the addition of an LS.
hello hello drunken scott where are you?
Geordie? gunna tell us all how he should have kept the Hyundai engine?