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    SUPERMANG LIVES!

    Jul 15, 2020 5 minutes
    STORY SCOTT TAYLOR
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    ELLEN DEWAR & ST

    WHEN it comes to engine swaps these days, it always seems to be ‘LS this’ or ‘Barra that’, and probably for good reason. Both engines are capable of some pretty amazing horsepower on a budget, and at Carnage HQ, we’ve certainly done enough of them to know.

    Yet we discarded both those ideas when it came to repowering our new VN Berlina project car, which we’ve nicknamed Supermang. Our plan is to boost a 3.8-litre V6 into a Barra-killer and slip it into a relatively lightweight VN. Some may ask why we didn’t just whack a turbo on the standard VN V6, but I’ve done that before, and while the result was a stout 11-second sleeper, I’ve always wanted to try it with the much stronger factory-supercharged V6.

    Finding an engine was

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