Practically Classics Forum

Mazda 6 and Ford Mondeo ST220 are the places that one was found here, the O/P stays New Zealand....

I have a 3.0 Duatec V6 (I think from a 2001 Mondeo) in the garage. It is waiting the enthusiasm to fit it to a focus. In the Mondeo it REALLY shifted so in a Viva that weighs about the same as the Mondeo's back seat it should move like it's rocket propelled!

are you going down the piston route?

yoeddynz wrote:......Clue- its bolted to my original Rx7 gearbox.

So it must be the Duratec V6 out of the Mazda 6 and the Mondeo then? Or is the gearbox clue a red herring? Hmm, the thread title is

1968 Viva HB was Rotary powered..now...

Which implies that it's no longer an engine of the Wankel variety.

i was thinking jet power

Surely not the K series V6? Interesting choice if so.

I have driven 2 different Minors with a kv6 squeezed in. They are REALLY rapid!

TerryG wrote:I have driven 2 different Minors with a kv6 squeezed in. They are REALLY rapid!

Really? The only RWD application of a FWD V6 I can think of is the one from the Rover 75 in Ken Wood's rally Dolomite, complete with GRP body parts.
I guess the Mazda one would go just as well though.

Both done by the same bloke with parts from JLH restoration I believe although on their site it doesn't say they can be used with the v6. I will give him a poke and get some snaps

I suppose it's a logical choice as it's actually not much different in weight from the IL4 out of the MX5, but a Mazda engine in a Minor seems wrong somehow. Don't know why, but it just does.