by "AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
Published 09/09/2017 at 23:05
by "AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
Published 09/09/2017 at 23:05
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When i’m 40/50, I hope ill have enough money to buy two cars. One would be my DD, something like a Turboed Rocket Bunny V3 Subaru BRZ. The other would be something much more controversial. It goes something like this:
A while ago I saw post here on oppo showing some Supercars (488, 458, Ford GT) damaged by Harvey, and while many people were mouring the loss of those cars in the comments, I was thinking “I see an LS-Swapped Race Car” I thought about it more, and now here I am, writing this post. So my so called plan is to go on my favorite website of all time, Copart and find a nice flooded (least body damage) supercar or expensive sports car, not unlike this Audi R8 I just found:
It seems not to have major damage other than the front grille and mirror. But this R8 is flooded and therefore, the engine probably doesn’t run or it doesn’t run well, Ok, so heres where my plan gets controversial: What do you do to a car that has no engine or has a slow one:
You LS swap it of course! Now I know what those of you who aren’t any fun are going to say: “Stop ruining cars with LS Swaps!” But, heres the thing, A flooded car is already ruined, so its not like an LS is going to ruin it more, right? Ok after the LS Swap would be done, I would then do something most opponauts would like: Rip out every single piece of interior, add some carbon fibre bits and a racing seat, for it to end up something like this:
The next step would be to add, oh I dont know, maybe a Liberty Walk kit:
After that I would put an official Audi Livery on it, you know, for good measure:
And that would be my track monster, you know, because I would be so unfancily fancy to buy an Ariel Atom. Feel free to leave your comments about this
"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
09/09/2017 at 23:14, STARS: 0
i mean, I have nothing against saving a car other wise doomed...but ehhh. LS just seems lazy. not to mention, everyone puts an LS into everything. unless you keep the original drivetrain and electronics (by that I mean stuff like keeping it AWD with the proper split and diffs, any trick electronics that helped it be the car it was) you might was well start with a bunch of steel tubing and make your own car.
"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
09/09/2017 at 23:15, STARS: 3
WITH THAT SAID I wonder how hard it would be to take 4 bike engines, rig one to each wheel and let it fly.....
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
09/09/2017 at 23:16, STARS: 0
I like this idea, but it would still be an expensive endeavor. Also I’d go witch a Hellcat engine. Because 450hp isn’t enough for a car like that. And it’s also something you could potentially source from Copart
"dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter" (dsigned001)
09/09/2017 at 23:22, STARS: 0
I like your thinking, but I’m not sure that the LS is quite the ultimate sacrilege. I can’t think of anything better at the moment, but there’s got to be something.
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
09/09/2017 at 23:32, STARS: 2
An air cooled flat six...
out of a Corvair.
"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
09/09/2017 at 23:51, STARS: 0
Raced against not one but two Geo Metro bodies powered by 1200cc motorcycle engines screaming at 11k rpm in the passenger area during a LeMons race many years ago.
They hauled ass but I’m betting the drivers must have had serious ear damage by turn one.
"David Baker" (mark7lsc1)
09/09/2017 at 23:55, STARS: 0
I’m a Ford guy but, LS swaps just make sense from a power, size and cost perspective. I agree that high tech flood cars might not be a fit, but most older RWD cars are.
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
09/10/2017 at 00:00, STARS: 1
Coyote swap instead. The 5.0 really likes boost
"sony1492" (sony1492)
09/10/2017 at 00:02, STARS: 0
Yamaha v8 from a Taurus SHO, followed by twin turbos to get the desired power
"PS9" (PS9)
09/10/2017 at 00:06, STARS: 6
That’s not gonna anger anyone. People like the R8, but they don’t have the sad, rabid, til death do us part devotion to the brand or the car that would inspire anger. Hardcore R8 folks will be at worst ambivalent.
No. What you need is a 250 GTO. Make sure it’s a rare one of one color to make things even better. Next, you don’t make it faster. Any change at all will perturb Ferrari die hards, true. But we don’t want to merely ‘perturb’ them. We want to ANGER them. So here’s what we do. We take out the V12... And we replace it with the powertrain out of a Prius. And we won’t be using just any Prius; we’re going to use the FIRST GEN prius. Not only are we defiling a pristine 250 GTO with automatic hybrid commoner filth, we doing that with OLD, USED, OUT OF DATE commoner filth!
Step 1: Attend Ferrari auto show
Step 2: pop hood
Step 3: Explain yourself to the crowd
Step 4: DIE.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
09/10/2017 at 00:11, STARS: 1
You do realize there is more fucked up about these cars than just the engine, right? With that said, have at it!
"Chuckles" (chucklesw37)
09/10/2017 at 00:44, STARS: 1
I like your plan, but I’d recommend going with an Iron Duke out of an old decommissioned mail truck. Just for fun, you could put that V12 into that mail truck too!
"PS9" (PS9)
09/10/2017 at 00:52, STARS: 0
IRON DUKE??? Goddamn. Savage.
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:03, STARS: 1
Yes, yes I do
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:04, STARS: 1
The electrics are done, the engine is done, the car gets rust, etc
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:05, STARS: 0
This is the first time I’ve ever legitimately laughed for more than 1.5 Seconds on any part of Gawker Media
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:08, STARS: 0
Im on $40k budget. How expensive is a hellcat crate engine?
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:10, STARS: 0
I want a race car, not a complete fudge with the purists car
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:10, STARS: 0
I’ve already decided a hellcat engine is better
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:11, STARS: 0
Eventually I will make my own car. I want to have the success of TVR, but without the financial issues
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:12, STARS: 1
Someone here said to stuff an iron duke in a 250GTO. Funniest thing I’ve heard all day
"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/10/2017 at 01:13, STARS: 0
I would really like to see this. Any videos?
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
09/10/2017 at 01:42, STARS: 0
What the fuck is Gawker Media?
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
09/10/2017 at 01:44, STARS: 0
In forty years? $3.50.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
09/10/2017 at 02:44, STARS: 0
About one VW Beetle. http://www.modernmusclextreme.com/p-179-hellcat-62l-hemi-crate-engine.aspx
"Tareim - V8 powered" (tareimgaml)
09/10/2017 at 05:41, STARS: 0
a cummins would probably be more sacrilege
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
09/10/2017 at 11:38, STARS: 0
I love it.
"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
09/10/2017 at 13:24, STARS: 0
I must have misremembered some of the finer details — for one I thought both were blue — and this doesn’t have the engine where I remember it.
I think weirder has been accomplished and I know what I saw didn’t win that day, as it was a Ford model A or T that won as it soundly kicked the crap out of everyone. Wasn’t even closer. I don’t think either Metro I saw finished that particular race but it’s been years so who knows.
"Chuckles" (chucklesw37)
09/10/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
Considering how many Ferrari kit cars are actually Pontiac Fieros underneath, you could always try to pass it off as the most accurately detailed kit car ever made.