F1 Powered Alfa Romeo 164? Sign me up!

[Extreme Dimensions]

This is not the world's nastiest mini truck. It's something far, far more hilarious: a 1985 Alfa Romeo 164 powered by a bonkers 3.5-liter V10 F1 engine. Yep. That's a thing. The best part? It can't hold a candle to what Renault cooked up. Check out our favorite F1-powered road cars here.

[Bubba1]

Sign me up! I'd love to pick up stuff from Home Depot 5 miles away and be able to return home in under 2 minutes.

[float_6969]

WTF, where you do you just buy and F1 motor to make a project out of?

[flohtingPoint]

Race motors: Very powerful things that last a VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME (hours to be exact)! F1 motors are even more picky, we're talking about a 3.0L V10 that makes naturally aspirated 850 bhp. It's not exactly something one person can manage. Good luck putting it all together and getting it to function properly, or even start, considering you cannot cold start these motors or they'll seize. It's also not something one could take for a cruise downtown or anything, as it makes no power until about 15-16k rpms, not really something that is streetable and definitely something that would suck to have to do stop/go stuff with.

[Bubba1]

WTF, where you do you just buy and F1 motor to make a project out of?

Good question. I imagine once an F1 engine's technology becomes obsolete, some F1 teams might sell 'em instead of parting/crushing, especially to people with connections to the team.

[flohtingPoint]

WTF, where you do you just buy and F1 motor to make a project out of?

Good question. I imagine once an F1 engine's technology becomes obsolete, some F1 teams might sell old engines/cars instead of parting/crushing, especially to people with connections to the team.

V10's were outlawed in the end of 2005 for the 2006 and onward regulations. It's two generations old (as we had the V8 era and now the turbo POS motors), so there is no fear of gaining any competitive knowledge off it. I'm sure they're easy to get a hold of (relatively speaking, I mean it is an F1 motor...) if you know any of the factory folks. Now the ECU and fuel mappings, good luck, as this was before McLaren created the ECU that was standard in ALL F1 cars.

[Bubba1]

Somehow I don't see this vehicle ever becoming a daily driver...