The cheapest way to get 450+ horses

[Limpet]

Not an easy route, but cheap. £800 worth of LS400 and a secondhand supercharger kit. A Vortech kit went secondhand on eBay not too long ago for £650. I reckon if you were handy with the spanners, and creative with parts sourcing, you'd have it all done and ready to roll for under £2k. Would make a heck of a sleeper too.

[Phil Dicky]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Escy said:

Pixelpeep7r said:

Now this might be a typo but how about 1098bhp for £5,000 in a cool shell too?

clicky

Evan if it was true, I wouldn't be seen dead in it. I despise Morris Minors

me too.. but that would make it extra cool to be running one with 1000+ bhp.

Hi Mr Lambo.. yes thats right, i have wood on my bodywork.. please pay special attention to the wood on my back doors as that's all you'll be seeing..

Judging by its maximum speed it's geared for acceleration

[Escy]

Limpet said:

Not an easy route, but cheap. £800 worth of LS400 and a secondhand supercharger kit. A Vortech kit went secondhand on eBay not too long ago for £650. I reckon if you were handy with the spanners, and creative with parts sourcing, you'd have it all done and ready to roll for under £2k. Would make a heck of a sleeper too.

It's not sporty and would cost a fortune to make manual. Same for Supra's, GS300's and Soarers's. Any manual big power Toyota usually has a price to match.

[TheJimi]

Osinjak said:

FD3Si said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

Winner.
Maybe not the cheapest, but certainly one of the most exciting ways.

I have no idea what half of that advert is on about!

That's an example of how an advert *should* be written, imo.

[Seb d]

How about http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

[lamboman100]

Golf R with chip.

~400 squid a month.

0 to 60 in 3.8secs

[toerag]

6k scooby

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/s...

[lauda]

TheJimi said:

Osinjak said:

FD3Si said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

Winner.
Maybe not the cheapest, but certainly one of the most exciting ways.

I have no idea what half of that advert is on about!

That's an example of how an advert *should* be written, imo.

That car belongs to a mate of mine. His previous eBay advert for a total shed that he was selling was comedy gold. To say it was brutally honest was an understatement. Someone bought it though, so shows that honesty does pay.

A lot of good work has gone into that RX7 though and it's a hell of a lot of performance for the money.

[pimpchez]

Mazda 6 MPS . 5-6k worth of mods will get you there starting from scratch aslong as you fit all yourself after outsourcing the forge engine build .

gtx30
5th injector
fmic
meth
3.5" intake

[Pixelpeep7r]

lamboman100 said:

Golf R with chip.

~400 squid a month.

0 to 60 in 3.8secs

Or lease it for £250

[epom]

The older RS6

[EricE]

lamboman100 said:

Golf R with chip.

~400 squid a month.

0 to 60 in 3.8secs

450 hp seems a bit optimistic from the 300 hp TSI. It would still run out of puff on the Autobahn.

[Escy]

pimpchez said:

Mazda 6 MPS . 5-6k worth of mods will get you there starting from scratch aslong as you fit all yourself after outsourcing the forge engine build .

gtx30
5th injector
fmic
meth
3.5" intake

5th injector?! Surely that's a 90's ghetto technique. I've never seen a 450bhp Mazda 6, has anyone built one?

That 6k Scooby has to be the best suggestion so far.

[deadslow]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Now this might be a typo but how about 1098bhp of RWD goodness for £5,000 in a cool shell too?

clicky

These old cars must be quite heavy. 1098bhp and a top speed of 72mph

[lamboman100]

Pixelpeep7r said:

lamboman100 said:

Golf R with chip.

~400 squid a month.

0 to 60 in 3.8secs

Or lease it for £250

By the time all the extras (e.g. DSG) and ~6-month upfront fee and remap have been added up, the total cost is more like 350 - 450 nuggets a month.

[lamboman100]

EricE said:

lamboman100 said:

Golf R with chip.

~400 squid a month.

0 to 60 in 3.8secs

450 hp seems a bit optimistic from the 300 hp TSI. It would still run out of puff on the Autobahn.

It gets ~360bhp and gets to 100mph in ~9secs.

Roughly 99% of all UK driving on public roads is done under 100mph.

[daveofedinburgh]

Mkiv Supra surely?

Was a member of the owners club for years (owned a lowly 6 speed NA) and even the 450hp+ boys seemed to have very few reliability issues.

Good examples with big power for well under £10k.

Jap turbo is probably the way, although I don't think the Nissan RB engines are up there with Toyotas 2JZs in terms of reliability. Same for Imprezas and Evos, which also come with a certain 'image' in a lot of people's eyes. RX7s are stunningly beautiful and fast, but rebuilding the rotary scares me.

Old fast Audis also.

Im sure there'll be some big old Mercs that'll do the job, but there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes.

[StottyEvo]

Mitsubishi 3000GT, cheap and powerful. I'd expect a ropey moded one could be picked up for less than 6k.

[Jaaack]

There's one of these kicking about that's running over 480bhp on the standard internals and has been for thousands of daily driven miles:



The car itself can be had for much less than a grand, even in decent nick.

[DervVW]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Now this might be a typo but how about 1098bhp of RWD goodness for £5,000 in a cool shell too?

clicky

might?