minicar: I have been doing some thinking here lately and I am just wondering if it is possible because that would be one hell of a ride. Get a wrecked mini, find some carbon fiber for the body, cram in a twin-turbo v6, and make it all wheel drive. That car would be hard to catch, not that it already isnt.Is it possible to cram a twi-turbo V-6 into a Mini Cooper and make it all wheel drive?I own a shop, a race car & truck, and have a degree in industrial engineering. This is highly possible to do, but on the down side; you would have a vehicle that would be very unstable. The shorter the vehicle gets, the less stable it becomes with torque. To put things in prespective; You would have a vehicle that would want to go in circles instead of moving in a straight line. This was the problem with craming too much engine in the Chevy Vega's and/or vehicles of this short of a configuration. Here is the reality of it; Even with an all wheel drive, the wheels will not get traction evenly unless you run a locking type differential, meaning both sides are locked together. Due to torque, it is natural for a vehicle to pull more on one side than it does on the other. To prove my point, even a dragster with a locking type differential must be shortened on one side in order for the vehicle to go straight. The shorter the vehicle, the more unstable the vehicle becomes when the twist of torque is applied to the frame & body. The idea sounds like something that would haul it down the track, and it would, but getting it to go in a straight line would be almost impossible to acheive. This just happens to be why rail job dragsters are long. I have seen many small vehicles with too much power placed in them, and every one of them would not go straight down the track. If a computer was used to control traction to each wheel to keep it straight, then I might work. This seems to be the same issue that took place with some of the stealth bombers that couldn't be flown until computers were put in charge of keeping them in the air. The shorter something is, the quicker the turning radius becomes. Realize the outcome if something broke. Safety is the real issue, and something of this nature wouldn't come close to being stable, or safe. You wouldn't want an out of control rocket running down the drag strip. This has been tried, and gave up on by many people with Chevy Vega's, and Ford Pinto's. They just couldn't get them to win due to passing the threshold of stability for the length of the vehicles. Glad to help out, Good Luck!!!Is it possible to cram a twi-turbo V-6 into a Mini Cooper and make it all wheel drive?you can do anything...might be hard to smogIs it possible to cram a twi-turbo V-6 into a Mini Cooper and make it all wheel drive?With money and genious custom fabrication - anything is possible. Wilder things than that have been built. The question is - do you have a ton of money, and are you an engineering genious??|||anythign is possible, but probably wouldn't be worth the amoutn of money you would spend on it.