{"id":65285,"date":"2022-10-07T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=65285"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:17","slug":"our-kind-of-engine-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2022\/10\/our-kind-of-engine-swap.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Kind of Engine Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 1971 Plymouth GTX-R was originally equipped with a V8 440 that churned out 390 horsepower. Not at all bad for its generation. This custom GTX-R tops that by almost 300 horsepower with the Dodge Viper 8.4-liter V10 under the hood. We always love to see a supercar crossover, and this restomod just became an extremely rare vehicle. The work was done by Horsepower Northwest in Washington, a tuner that prefers their projects to be driven rather than kept pretty in a collection. The exterior is just as impressive as the engine swap, and the custom bronze rims tie in perfectly with the F8 body. Find out <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"everything that went into this \u201970 Plymouth GTX-R with the heart of a Viper. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotcars.com\/this-1971-plymouth-gtx-r-custom-gets-a-v10-dodge-viper-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\">everything that went into this \u201970 Plymouth GTX-R with the heart of a Viper.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper3.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65288\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65288\" class=\"wp-image-65288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper3.png 747w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper3-576x298.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper4.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65289\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65289\" class=\"wp-image-65289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper4.png 741w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper4-576x305.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper5.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65290\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65290\" class=\"wp-image-65290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper5.png 743w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper5-576x290.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper6.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65291\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65291\" class=\"wp-image-65291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper6.png 742w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper6-576x303.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper-2.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65292\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65292\" class=\"wp-image-65292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper-2.png 739w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper-2-576x284.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1971 Plymouth GTX-R was originally equipped with a V8 440 that churned out 390 horsepower. Not at all bad for its generation. This custom GTX-R tops that by almost 300 horsepower with the Dodge Viper 8.4-liter V10 under the hood. We always love to see a supercar crossover, and this restomod just became an extremely rare vehicle. The work was done by Horsepower Northwest in Washington, a tuner that prefers their projects to be driven rather than kept pretty in a collection. The exterior is just as impressive as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":65287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,638],"tags":[2949,561],"class_list":["post-65285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-showcase","tag-plymouth-classics","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/viper-swap.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65528,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65285\/revisions\/65528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}