SLEEPERS! Anyone have a street sleeper here?

SLEEPERS! Anyone have a street sleeper here?

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PapaJohns

1,064 posts

152 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Not sure if this counts, more Q-car

VW passat CC --3.6L V6-- nigh on 300bhp


Basically an R36 in a slightly lighter package, only visual difference to a diesel is the twin chrome pipes.........

Edited by PapaJohns on Sunday 21st December 12:10

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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PapaJohns said:
Not sure if this counts, more Q-car

VW passat CC --3.6L V6-- nigh on 300bhp


Basically an R36 in a slightly lighter package, only visual difference to a diesel is the twin chrome pipes.........

Edited by PapaJohns on Sunday 21st December 12:10
Definitely counts considering anyone would assume it's just a 2.0TDI. The twin chrome pipes could just be a visual upgrade package, so yeah definitely a sleeper biggrin

Bonus points if you get a TDI badge from a scrappie and stick it on the back hehe

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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swerni said:


The one on the right clearly wink


Neither are owned by me anymore
I think you have the wrong thread?

CarlT

3,423 posts

246 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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randomeddy said:
The Spruce goose said:
randomeddy said:
Our Passat might just creep into q-car territory.
They only made them for seven months with the 2.0 TFSi engine.Only 200bhp but there are tens of thousands of 140 bhp diesels about.
maybe with a remap but the passet is getting on 1.7 tonnes
I am totally into the sleeper thing that is why I put it might just creep into q-car territory.Not making any big claims about it but it is an interesting car just because of their relative rarity.I did the how many left search and it showed up 157 of them,don't know how many estates.
(I put a little turbo badge on when I first got it and my son bked me).redcard
I had one of these, sold it back in September. I debadged it, so it really did look like a diesel. But, the 200hp did give it quite a turn of speed...

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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swerni said:
not sure thou, the 90's these were plastered all over the news as bank robbers choice, an how quick they were. it has scoops and looks fast, never a sleeper.

a vr4 is a sleeper

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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swerni said:
Swanny87 said:
swerni said:


The one on the right clearly wink


Neither are owned by me anymore
I think you have the wrong thread?
It's all about timing wink
It had the quick shift box and the prodrive engine upgrade

I had to wait 12 months for it to arrive and it was delivered in 1998.
Back them, virtually know one knew what it was.
At the time it was an awesome sleeper
By 1998 the Impreza had already won a world rally title and was being campaigned by one of the most famous British Motorsport personalties to come out of the 90s. I think in actual fact probably everyone would have known what it was.


Anyway, my contribution, my current car crush, w220 S600.



You see an old, bus sized Merc. You'd expect it to be a V6, or at a push a V8 with a modest 300BHP or so. What you probably would not be expecting a Twin Turbo charged V12 with 600bhp/700lbft (albeit with extensive mods like a remap and... well, that's it) allowing it to fly down the 1/4 mile in 11 seconds or so and would muller most cars this side of a Veyron from a roll. And it looks like a 2 grand 320. I think they're fantastic!

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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And now back to a proper sleeper:




anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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If the massive twin pipe exhausts and huge wheels on a Astra weren't enough of a give away, the fact that the body doesn't look 'right'. Sort of like someone plonked the body onto a different chassis, which is what I'm assuming what is the case.

Clearly there are some very differing opinion as to what constitutes a 'sleeper'

frankowvette

214 posts

243 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Good effort with the Astra, however much greater reward would be had by dropping in an LS1 or later, the early injection (TPI) Chevy small blocks are very disappointing.

Justin S

3,637 posts

260 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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A sleeper is a car that was never meant to trouble anything on the roads and yet disappear into the distance.
One I like is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuC9E3H6FH8

And another with plastic wheel trims too !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJB8rP_bwrs

oh and the mad swedes and boosted Volvos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfd7_xX-bw




Edited by Justin S on Sunday 21st December 20:53


Edited by Justin S on Sunday 21st December 21:12

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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279 said:
If the massive twin pipe exhausts and huge wheels on a Astra weren't enough of a give away, the fact that the body doesn't look 'right'. Sort of like someone plonked the body onto a different chassis, which is what I'm assuming what is the case.

Clearly there are some very differing opinion as to what constitutes a 'sleeper'
Oh come one, really? If you were to put standard Astra alloys on it then no-one but the 0.01% of car geeks would spot the slightly different body shape, and most people would assume the twin pipes are standard barryboy halfords additions.
Do you really think people are going to go "oh hang on, I bet someone's put an Astra body onto a Corvette chassis" ?

IntriguedUser

988 posts

120 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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babo456 said:
Theres a local lad here who has a horrible brown, 5 door 1996ish corsa. Looks total crap.

BUT a 320bhp Z20LET GSi engine crammed in some how.

Goes like stink when it gets traction. The thing can only weigh about a ton and a bit.
Probably a tad less than a ton..

I put a Z20LET in my 1.8 Corsa with a stage 1 remap to 225 bhp, now that was quick.

I'd even argue that the 1.8 with the bog standard 125bhp was enough to scare some bigger bits of kit away. Cars are heavy now.

DuraAce

4,240 posts

159 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Justin S said:
A sleeper is a car that was never meant to trouble anything on the roads and yet disappear into the distance.
Exactly right IMO. 3 good examples there. Cars you wouldn't give a second glance as you walked past them.

ChemicalChaos said:
Oh come one, really? If you were to put standard Astra alloys on it then no-one but the 0.01% of car geeks would spot the slightly different body shape, and most people would assume the twin pipes are standard barryboy halfords additions.
Do you really think people are going to go "oh hang on, I bet someone's put an Astra body onto a Corvette chassis" ?
The paintwork, bodykit, wheels all say modified to me. The GTE/GSI was a hot hatch in its day. No, I wouldn't expect it to have the running gear it has got however I'd still expect it to be reasonably quick.

If it looked a basic 1.3L with wheel trims then that's a different game altogether......



Edited by DuraAce on Sunday 21st December 21:26

Freegs

96 posts

112 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc

Beat that

Edited by Freegs on Sunday 21st December 21:49

Fast Bug

11,595 posts

160 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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A Subaru is in no way a sleeper, unless it's a Brat with a WRX engine.

I'd also bet my mortgage that the Merc won't an 11. My Beetle runs low 13's, which is mid 4 seconds to 60 so I'd guess late 13's early 14's from Grosser Panzer

randomeddy

1,430 posts

136 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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That 120Y wins it for me.

Mr E

21,581 posts

258 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Trevor450 said:
E500. 388bhp 5.5 litre. Looks like an E220.





E500. 388bhp. 5.5 litre. Looks like a....
... Crap. Beaten to it.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=...


Edited by Mr E on Sunday 21st December 21:41

Finlandia

7,803 posts

230 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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A 350cui under the bonnet (front that is), with around 300 horses.

sim72

4,945 posts

133 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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J4CKO said:
fatjon said:
Somewhere lurking around Retford (notts) is a red Sierra Estate. Faded dull oxidised paint, steel wheels, pea shooter exhaust, filthy and a bit rusty. Do not mess with it.
I assume the tail pipe is not he actual live one as this stty old shed left my Cerbera for dead. He even slowed down a few times so he could take the piss out of me again. I didn't hear any dump valve sounds or V8 rumble but it moved like it had been fired out of cannon but with barely a sound.
Jesus, what on earth would an old Sierra need to drop a Cerbera ! don't Cerberas do 0-100 in like 8 seconds, weigh not much more than a tonne and have 400 plus bhp, even most mega tuned Cosworths would struggle with one.

We need to know more about this Sierra, it is the car Equivalent of feral Big Cats roaming Bodmin Moor or similar.
This rang a bell. Is it this, I wonder?
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/137806/1990...

Was in Buxton at the time but was sold on that thread.

Asspec

53 posts

183 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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jogger1976 said:
I was sorting through some of my files yesterday and came across this. Not mine unfortunately, but I saw it at Shuttleworth about 18 months ago. It's a Cortina GT, so standard about 75-80bhp. From memory it was pushing about 140 bhp with the breathed on X-Flow from Burton Power. Not bad for a car that weighs 850kg. biggrin



I think you mean Pre-xflow