LOL! Boyracer's biggest scare

[Bodo]

A Porsche 928 chassis with a Golf MK1 body



See the difference between boyracer and gentleman-driver?

As Aston Martin said
"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys"

(taken from www.autolager.de/umbauten.htm )

[pigme]

That old trick, one car is further away than the other! You Germans, always trying to trick us, you cheeky monkey you.

[marki]

very interesting ,,,,,but Stupid

[paul]

See what too much beer and a copy of Photoshop can do?

This wasn't on a site with Spoof moon landing photos was it?

[element]

It's a genuine 928 interior, in a golf shaped shell from what I can see. And the magazine has the details right about the S motor... I'd love it to be real.

[Bodo]

Nordstadt actually built a small series of these Rabbits in 1979; at least three.
I wouldn't believe they're real, if wouldn't have been driving one four years ago. And they are scaring

The only significant differences are the proportions and the early 928 wheels, and most people think it's a pile o shite on the road -

[paul]

I stand corrected. I'd have thought that tooling up for all those oversize body panels (assuming its not GRP) and the wider windscreen/rear window/bumpers etc. would have been prohibitive.

each to their own....

That said, when we were at uni, 2 of my flat-mates on Mech-Eng were planning to convert a 1977 ford Fiesta to mid engine rear wheel drive (rather like the then Renault 5 Turbo II and the current clio V6 thingy). Plans involved a Rover SDi V8 and the running gear from a Cortina. Like all good Student projects they got as far as taking a Rover gearbox to pieces in the lounge and shortening the Cortina axle. Two years later, it was all taken to the scrappy.... Halcyon days.

[raceboy]

A few years ago in CCC magazine there was a rear wheel drive TVR Tuscan Rover V8 powered Fiesta and a similar engine in a Laguna

[M@H]

quote:
A few years ago in CCC magazine there was a rear wheel drive TVR Tuscan Rover V8 powered Fiesta and a similar engine in a Laguna

Why ?

[Fatboy]

quote:A few years ago in CCC magazine there was a rear wheel drive TVR Tuscan Rover V8 powered Fiesta and a similar engine in a Laguna

Think I saw that fiesta at Shakespeare county raceway a month or so back... - a real street sleeper, must have been a real handful in the wet

[elanturbo]

I seem to recall an article where someone stuck a porsche engine in a 2cv. That would be fun at the lights.

[plotloss]

I used to work with a fella who had one of those 2.8 V6 Ford Cologne lumps out of the Cortina/Granny/Sierra in the back of an RWD Fiat 126!!

Matt.

[Podie]

quote:
I used to work with a fella who had one of those 2.8 V6 Ford Cologne lumps out of the Cortina/Granny/Sierra in the back of an RWD Fiat 126!!

Matt.

Where the hell did he sit?

[gtir]

I saw a V6 twin turbo engine, out of a Jag XJ220, in a ford Transit!

It was stuck in the back, and had a Jag back axle with huge wheels. It was at TWR

[The Wiz]

Worked with a friend a few years back on mid engined Skoda Rapide. Initially it was powered by a 5.0 litre, 300 bhp Rover V8 which was then replaced by a 5.7 litre Chevy V8 driving through a Muncie rock crusher transmission and fitted with a supercharger. Gave around 450 bhp, 0-60 in sub 4 seconds (when you could get around the wheelspin) and a theoretical maximum speed in excess of 160 mph.

Unfortunately he stuffed it into a tree. Still got the bits though.