go to
http://www.jagsthatrun.com/... 350's in jags till your eyes bleed... I've also seen rx-7's with 350's as well as 280's 240's lots of cars.
they also put 302's into miata's as well as rotary motors...
As far as that is concerned though it's just dumb... unless it's a 1/4 mi car only and even then it then frames just aren't strong enough to handle that much power... my buddy had to put frame rail connectors on his mustang... imagine what that power would do to a miata.
And as far as honda motor rotation it can be reversed... there were some guys on the cover of one of the import mags who had to do it to get the engine to work properly with there setup... I'm sure it was no easy task but it's do-able.
I'd take a b16 or b18 running serious psi over a 350 in my civic ANY DAY... imagine I could actually still drive the car around a corner AND probobly beat some v8's (stockers).
other than to be able to say... yup I put a v8 in it... there is NO reason to put a v8 in a econocar...
like those 4.7L conversions for the ford eco box. that's just dumb... I can't imagine those cars are drivable at all.. and you could make the same if not more power by boosting the crap out of the stock block.