SLEEPERS! Anyone have a street sleeper here?
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I have a passion for street sleepers.
There's such a joy in leaving powerful cars behind eating your dust caused by your 'old, incompetent, humble, small engined, and perhaps embarrassing' car, especially if the challenged is raised to you by a smug looking driver, constantly revving his engine at the lights, just before they turn to green!
If you have a sleeper, post your stories and add pictures!!!!
My love for these started, when I was offered a passenger ride on an ordinary Renault 5 Campus, standard on the outside with 14'' steel wheels. The biggest surprise was the 2.0 tuned lump from a Williams Clio, that was apparently pushing over 200bhp. Sorted suspension made it really firm and 'go cart' like!
I can't confirm the power output, but, what I can confirm was that it was stupidly quick. So quick in its fragile and wobbly shell... surely it couldn't have been safe! But when taking on a Scooby down a country lane and eventually leading onto a dual carriageway, whilst holding on for my dear life and couldn't believe my eyes, when the driver of the Scooby gave up!
Whilst stationary at the lights a couple of miles down the road, the Scooby pulls alongside, with the driver looking very confused. After a brief pause, he winds down his window and says, and I quote; 'what the hell is that?'
Classic!
There's such a joy in leaving powerful cars behind eating your dust caused by your 'old, incompetent, humble, small engined, and perhaps embarrassing' car, especially if the challenged is raised to you by a smug looking driver, constantly revving his engine at the lights, just before they turn to green!
If you have a sleeper, post your stories and add pictures!!!!
My love for these started, when I was offered a passenger ride on an ordinary Renault 5 Campus, standard on the outside with 14'' steel wheels. The biggest surprise was the 2.0 tuned lump from a Williams Clio, that was apparently pushing over 200bhp. Sorted suspension made it really firm and 'go cart' like!
I can't confirm the power output, but, what I can confirm was that it was stupidly quick. So quick in its fragile and wobbly shell... surely it couldn't have been safe! But when taking on a Scooby down a country lane and eventually leading onto a dual carriageway, whilst holding on for my dear life and couldn't believe my eyes, when the driver of the Scooby gave up!
Whilst stationary at the lights a couple of miles down the road, the Scooby pulls alongside, with the driver looking very confused. After a brief pause, he winds down his window and says, and I quote; 'what the hell is that?'
Classic!
StottyZr said:
A friend of mine just pulled 517hp in his mk4 Astra coupe. The engine was in an old Yorkshire Water Astra van before he bought the Coupe 
He used to tell people it was a 1.6lpg when they shouted "what the f
k is that?" at him 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8Uy3RrFGA
That's it on the rollers, not as sleeperish now its in a normal car but I'm sure you still wouldn't expect it to have that kind of power.
Damn! That's what I'm talking about StottyZr! That Astra G must shift! He used to tell people it was a 1.6lpg when they shouted "what the fk is that?" at him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8Uy3RrFGA
That's it on the rollers, not as sleeperish now its in a normal car but I'm sure you still wouldn't expect it to have that kind of power.
Edited by StottyZr on Friday 15th March 11:57
Thats a lot of power... wheelspin through all the gears?!
mighty kitten said:
My old Saab 9000 went quite well
With a huge vgt Holset strapped to it at 1.7 bar but it admitted defeat at 2 bar and split a piston in half
Pretty hopeless until 3rd gear and in a straight line where it was hysterical all the way to 160mph .
ArnieVXR said:
I suppose my old Monaro might not count, as it's meant to be a fast car with 398ps in stock form. Modding it to 1200hp with twin turbos and a seven litre engine meant it ran the quarter quicker than a Veyron:
The only clue to its altered nature being the 15-inch rims on the back end. Sadly, I was never challenged to a street race. I'm guessing that a big red muscle car is just too obvious.
The engine is now partly transplanted into a dark green Audi 80 coupe. The turbos and injectors are bigger, so power will be up. The last engine in this car ran well over 1500hp, so it has got to be one of the most potent sleepers ever:
Both highly impressive - respect to that pair! The only clue to its altered nature being the 15-inch rims on the back end. Sadly, I was never challenged to a street race. I'm guessing that a big red muscle car is just too obvious.
The engine is now partly transplanted into a dark green Audi 80 coupe. The turbos and injectors are bigger, so power will be up. The last engine in this car ran well over 1500hp, so it has got to be one of the most potent sleepers ever:
However, as quick and mighty as they may be, they're not exactly discreet... are they? One glimpse at those rear wheels alone, and anybody would be wondering what's under the bonnet.
Not exactly sleepers on my count.
STIfree said:
This is fairly local to me. Big intercooler half hidden behind the bumper kind of gives it away a little but. Had a breif chat to the owner who said it blew off a MK2 Focus RS just a couple of days ago with ease in the wet. No idea of numbers though.
This does it for me! It's all about the surprise factor... 
BHML said:
Here's my sleeper - apart from the small discrete badge it looks like a C class estate rep-mobile
I've driven one of these... Fantastic! It's a hell of a beast. But, given the topic of discussion here, I think you should take a step back my friend, and look at it.
Nothing, but nothing about it makes it any kind of a sleeper! ...the huge exhausts, the enourmous wheels, a fairly sizeable badge sporting large numbers on it stating how big the engine is...
I think you're in the wrong thread here...
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