Watch the World’s First V8 Tesla Swap Start Up for the First Time
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We’ve been following along with Rich Benoit’s journey to LS swap a Tesla Model S since last December, and enjoyed the progress updates along the way. Things just got real, though—with the first start of the mighty V8 under the hood of the formerly-electric beast.If you’re new to the project, the basic concept is simple—shoving a 6.2L LS3 V8 engine from a Camaro into the luxury electric sedan. Packing a full 426 horsepower, and paired with a manual transmission, it should provide plenty of grunt to challenge the 4.3 second 0-60 times of the original Model S 75 donor car. It’s a job that comes with more headaches than the typical LS swap, though, as the Tesla is lacking many things that one can take for granted when working on a traditional gasoline-powered car. There’s no fuel tank, for starters, zero provision for a transmission tunnel, and very little room in which to route the exhaust. Undeterred, Rich presses on, with the help of a cavalcade of friends who are just as enthusiastic as he is about the build.
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