"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
10/23/2018 at 10:10 • Filed to: this is awesome, drivetrain swap
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"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
10/23/2018 at 10:10 • Filed to: this is awesome, drivetrain swap | 0
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I had a wonderfully crazy drivetrain swap idea while I was driving into work and I wanted to share.
Take a 300SL but re- make it in carbon fiber. Essentially a super fancy kit car and swap in the drivetrain from the AMG GT. The kit would be licensed by MB so every dimension matches.
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Should equal all sorts of awesome.
What does Oppo think? What crazy family lineage drivetrain swaps would you do?
LongbowMkII
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 10:14 |
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I’d rather have it with the new inline 6
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 10:26 |
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Ford GT into Shoebox convertible. .
Tapas
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 10:32 |
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If you really do have a death wish, strap a H ayabusa engine to a unicycle.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/23/2018 at 10:33 |
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That would be tough considering the GT is mid-engine. Maybe the GT engine and the Raptor trans?
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> Tapas
10/23/2018 at 10:33 |
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I’m in.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 10:34 |
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So what you’re saying is a Mercedes 300 version of the Singer DLS? I also think putting a crazy straight 6 in it would be epic.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 10:57 |
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No. Rear mid, because who needs a trunk? The radiator is for-ard anyways, so...
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10/23/2018 at 10:59 |
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Ilike_cougars
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/23/2018 at 13:32 |
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Mercedes already did a restomod, with different engine.
Khalbali
> LongbowMkII
10/23/2018 at 15:26 |
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I agree, I wish they would make an AMG 53 wagon with the straight 6, they’d have a 1 in 302 million chance of selling one!
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> Ilike_cougars
10/23/2018 at 16:08 |
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This proves I’m not crazy!
Chuckybas
> AuthiCooper1300
10/25/2018 at 19:31 |
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I think this is not quiiiiiite secret. There are pics out there and I think the customer wanted modern rims/wheels for some reason.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Chuckybas
10/26/2018 at 09:29 |
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I never said it was secret; just that our contact at AMG replied rather eliptically that they “didn’t do that sort of thing... anymore”. A statement that, in itself, was also a lot of hogwash.
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AuthiCooper1300
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10/26/2018 at 09:35 |
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What a way to destroy some original SLs.
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10/26/2018 at 09:39 |
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Chuckybas
> AuthiCooper1300
10/26/2018 at 10:21 |
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True. Pre-internet is a different world. Very cool to talk to a guy like that though I would think.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Chuckybas
10/26/2018 at 10:38 |
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Unfortunately it was not in person.
And even more unfortunately I only found out not so long ago that early in their careers he had been a manager of sorts for a b r a c e of future F1 world champions.
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