If you can do some stuff yourself, get some basic tooling, drill press, mig (TIG's expensive) welder, chop saw, bender, notcher, hacksaw, angle grinder, you know general stuff.
You can get LS engines at the scrapyard for as low as 200$. For tge drivetrain, i'd recomment sonething sttong nuff, like Impreza WRX or Subie Outback (the flat 6 one) drivetrains (gearbox, rear end, control arms, full suspension, driveshafts.)
Once you get all that, you empty that accord of yours, make a adapter plate for the LS to fit on the Scooby gearbox.
Now the tricky part is having that to fit, bst way is by measuring and center all that, make mounts, tack em only, only tacks.
You take the original suspension arms mounting points on the subie, and you make mounts for the accord, best way is front and rear subframe, add a rollcage in rge middle and this accord will be the cats meow. When everything fits, and looks good, you can weld everything together.
I'd say, 8-15k including tools.
Your talking a crap load of money, The accord chassis will not fit the engine, nor will it being a unibody that was designed for a much smaller engine with lower torque & horse power be able to handle the awesome load that a LS1 will put on it. So you would have to have the body removed from the chassis, and have a custom square or rectangle tube racing frame built that will not only handle the V-8 engine, but also a transmission to fit it (standard or automatic), and also a strong heavy duty rear end (differential), and it all will have to be made to fit the Honda body if you want it to look like an accord otherwise its going to look kinda like a funny car. Then you are going to need a hole lot of safety gear roll bar, seats, harness's, fuel cell, all the electronics and so on and so on... I couldn't give a price without many days of researching and parts shopping, and adding many, many labor hours up. Oh and you have not even talked about paint and bodywork yet.
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1. Go to school for welding.
2. Go to school for machine work.
3. Go to engineering school.
4. Buy 3 stall garage.
5. Buy tig welder, mig welder, end mill and lathe.
6. Build stands, jigs, etc. for car.
7. Remove everything from the Accord shell until it is down to bare metal.
8. Buy blown/fried LS1 and tranny for mock-up.
9. Fabricate new chassis, drivetrain, and suspension around Accord and engine/tranny dimensions, taking account for hp/torque, weight and handling.
10. Mock up car. Wire, plumb, etc.
11. When satisfied, completely disassemble.
12. Paint chassis and body.
13. Reassemble.
14. Test drive/tweak for a year or so (off public toadways.
15. Try to get it licensed. Might have to move to a state with lenient licensure laws.
16. Drive and tweak it for years.
Essentially, you are going to be building a complete car from scratch around a couple body panels that you can pick up for $200. Budget about 20 hours a week for 10-15 years if you are serious. Have buddies who do crazy stuf like this and it took 10+ years of on the job training before they even started planning out projects like yours and several years to build it.
A buddy would probably charge $80,000-$100,000 for labor/design and give you a 1-2 year turnaround.
For $10,000, you could make it just as fast with a built Honda motor.
1. Go to school for welding.
2. Go to school for machine work.
3. Go to engineering school.
4. Buy 3 stall garage.
5. Buy tig welder, mig welder, end mill and lathe.
6. Build stands, jigs, etc. for car.
7. Remove everything from the Accord shell until it is down to bare metal.
8. Buy blown/fried LS1 and tranny for mock-up.
9. Fabricate new chassis, drivetrain, and suspension around Accord and engine/tranny dimensions, taking account for hp/torque, weight and handling.
10. Mock up car. Wire, plumb, etc.
11. When satisfied, completely disassemble.
12. Paint chassis and body.
13. Reassemble.
14. Test drive/tweak for a year or so (off public toadways.
15. Try to get it licensed. Might have to move to a state with lenient licensure laws.
16. Drive and tweak it for years.
that is not a converson.
You would have remove your entire drive train , eng , the rear end .
And rebuild rear of the car body to accept the new rear end . everything. ! There is probably not enough room under the car body for a drive shaft. So you would have cut out the bottom of the body and weld in a well for the drive shat to run through..
You would have to rebuild the whole front end to accept the added weight of the new eng. You also said to include labor to have it all done.
Im guessing , $20,000. would get you 1/2 way there.
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You build a car from scratch, and put some Accord panels and lights on it.
Basically that's the only way you can do it.
Cost? Paying someone to do it? $100K?
Getting the mutant certified so you can drive it on the road? Who knows?
Will it actually handle like a car? Depends who you get to engineer the whole thing.
Ok so fisrt of i want to start off by saying this. I know it is not practical or a wise financial investment. i have a 2004 Accord , it was my first car. Once i get back from Afghanistan i wasn't to throw a LS1 into it. Not trying to be cocky but money isn't a problem for me so i was wondering roughly how much it would cost to throw a LS1 in my car and convert it to RWD. Pricing must include Parts labor ect. Thanks
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I like your dream, but only about half that engine will fit inside the body of an Accord. They are famously built compact in the front. That engine would extend to the bumper and you still need a radiator. Would look terribly awkward.
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If you intend to blow significant amounts of money, why not just buy a Corvette? It seems to be that you are leaning in that direction and since changing the drive train completely is strongly and superbly ridiculous, then, the only logical step is to buy a car that meets your needs.
You are better off getting a RWD car than to convert your accord to RWD as the power of an LS series engine can twist the accord's unibody to pieces.
Just buy a RWD car.
Drive \ try a Mazda RX8 or a Toyota GT 86 or 3 series BMWs etc.
Forget conversion work.
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Something others have alluded to but haven't said straight-out is that the chassis (unibody) is made for zero torque and the rear wheel drive would put a lot of torque on it. The handling, even on straight line acceleration, would be horrible.
This exemplifies "Millitary Intelligence," to the nth degree.How would a GI have enough money, but certainly not enough brains to do this?? Do you know how BIG an LS1 engine is, compared to the small engine bay that an Accord has?
Consider this: There is nothing rugged enough on the rear uni-body to mount a driven rear axle suspension links. There is no room on the front end to mount an older Impala SS front wheel drive LS engine and transmission.
Basically what you do is get an LSI car that has been totaled out and put your Honda body shell on it.
Simple process hire a macanical
it will be a very expensive project, and even then it may not work out. decide what you want and leave it alone. i had a 90 civic that i drove until it would not drive any more. on top of that, i was getting 30 mpg+
Putting $100,000 into a used Honda or buy a new Corvette. Did you receive a head wound ?!?
If money isn't a problem, as you claim, why ask this question? Why not just DO IT?
Isn't going to happen.
