Nothing new gets done with out vision. Dreams. Wild dreams. Classy seems like a visionary kind of guy.
It's not like any of us have put a V8 in a Goblin. Although, I did think about it.
I see the Goblin more of a light weight car. My son, Ian, wanted to build a shifter kart.
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But I wanted something street legal. The Goblin was the compromise that we made, a light weight performance car, that is street legal.
Not quite as fast as the shifter kart, but can be driven without trailering it to a track.
A V8 would be a compromise the other direction, more weight than a normal Goblin, with a bigger frame.