# Just found my mid life crisis car **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585 "2016-08-14T08:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chunkyazian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@chunkyazian](https://community.cartalk.com/u/chunkyazian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/1 "2016-08-14T08:35:27Z")
From what I understand, someone has the great idea of creating a v8 out of 2 Kawasaki ninja inline 4s. The crankcase and the flat plane crankshaft are custom designed. Then someone else installed said 2.4 liter V8 in a Subaru BRZ ---
**Author:** ![kmccune](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/kmccune/32/1237_2.png) [@kmccune](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kmccune)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/2 "2016-08-14T11:27:48Z")
Somebody was rolling in dough! ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/3 "2016-08-14T14:27:59Z")
The sound, the SOUND! Ohhh, That is wonderful! 'Scuse me. I need to go buy a lottery ticket! ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/4 "2016-08-14T14:28:45Z")
Do they road race with it? That’s what it looks like. I don’t read Japanese. They use Arabic numerals for some things, like RPM and HP. I don’t see torque, though. It looks like a lot of fun, and that is a sweet sound when it winds up towards 10K. ---
**Author:** ![chunkyazian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@chunkyazian](https://community.cartalk.com/u/chunkyazian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/5 "2016-08-14T15:21:30Z")
367ps(horsepower), 27.4kgfm or about 200ft lb Wish I can afford it, but there’s nothing wrong with dreaming about it BTW, I can’t read Japanese either. I read about it in popular mechanics ---
**Author:** ![FoDaddy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/fodaddy/32/717_2.png) [@FoDaddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/FoDaddy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/6 "2016-08-15T19:06:30Z")
I want to say that the V8 variant of the Ariel Atom has a similar engine. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/7 "2016-08-15T21:04:15Z")
The BRZ lacks the “peel your face off with the wind resistance” feature that comes stock on the Atoms, though. 😉 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/c/c331f2acdcd2db94d05dec087ff1972516092930.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/just-found-my-mid-life-crisis-car/94585/8 "2016-08-16T00:00:28Z")
The 3L Ariel V8 was similar. It was two Suzuki Hyabusa engines combined together. > **[2012 Ariel Atom V8 500 Review @ Top Speed](https://www.topspeed.com/cars/ariel/2012-ariel-atom-v8-500-ar100592.html)** > > no your eyes are not deceiving you ariel have indeed gone completely bonkers and fitted a bespoke v8 engine to the already madly fast and madly (...) Insane barely begins to describe it.