What do you get when you cross a gearhead with a hipster?

"Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole" (Dukie) 01/23/2014 at 09:15 • Filed to: NPOCP, Tips, Prius, WTF?!

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You get an LS1 swapped Prius, and it's for sale.

Up for sale is my 2006 Prius. I bought it with the dream of making the hands down best sleeper known to man. Literally, driving down the road, NO ONE expects this car to be pushing 450 RWHP. My friends and I have had SO much heckling ricers, then blowing their doors off.

Green wheels because I wanted it to look like a ricer. LS1 out of a 4th gen Camaro, automatic, sorry. 2 3/4 inch dual glasspacks all the way back, high flow cats. Custom trans tunnel and IRS LSD Jaguar rear end and subframe. Has all stock prius interior. Stock electronic dash doesn't work, but it's got a tach, oil pressure gauge, and water temp gauge.

I love this car, but now I'm feeling like it's time for me to build a GC8 Impreza, or maybe swap an EJ motor in a Beetle. So sell for 11000 firm, trade for a CLEAN GC8 +cash on your end. A clean pre-67 Beetle + a little cash on your end. Or an STI motor +cash on your end. NOTHING ELSE.

I'll admit, it's weird, but it's a total sleeper. 450 (supposedly) HP at the rear wheels? In a Prius?

So what say thee, Opponauts? NP or Crack Pipe?

thebigbossyboss > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:19

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CP.

cazzyodo > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:21

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I can't...

What...

THIS GUY IS INSANE BUT BRILLIANT

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:21

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Dude, NP pending review of the job. Could be a complete hack job with nothing working OR it could be one of the most awesome sleepers ever created.

willkinton247 > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:25

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The fact that this is in Seattle makes it so much better.

PilotMan > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:26

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Oshkosh my gosh, I totally want that. Any possible way to get the A/C working?

William Byrd > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 01/23/2014 at 09:27

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Yep. If it's got wires everywhere and looks hacked apart, CP. But if it's a well integrated build, I think it's fantastically insane and awesome. I just want to drive it.

CalzoneGolem > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:27

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I've always like the shape of the Prius.

gometz > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:28

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Remove the green wheels and this thing is AWESOME!

Depressoiscool > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:31

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I would hate myself getting in the car, but once I started it and just did Smokey burnouts everywhere I would forget it is a prius body. And as the user above me said, depending on the level of hackjobbyness, I'm leaning towards np... Ugh I cannot I believe I'm saying it, but nice price

PatBateman > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:32

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FINALLY, a Prius that I don't hate emerges.

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:32

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If it is a well done build - NP all the way.

Nibbles > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:40

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I would've forgone the glasspacks for something factory quiet to keep the sleeper status, but to each their own

This is probably NP, depending on quality of build

GhostZ > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:41

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This guy is the world biggest, and most successful, troll in the history of jalopdom.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:41

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Such a fun np, but you need to lose the glasspacs and put a serious quiet exhaust on it. It would be so much more fun with no giveaways.

GhostZ > CalzoneGolem 01/23/2014 at 09:42

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What kind of mad scientists looks at that shape and go "LS1 swap. Yeah. That's what I'll do."

Wacko > GhostZ 01/23/2014 at 09:44

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I had a dream about a month ago of doing this, I don't have the time/Skills/ or money to do this.

I almost posted my idea on oppo, but no I see that it has been done.

Wacko > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:45

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The world's greatest prius!!

CalzoneGolem > GhostZ 01/23/2014 at 09:49

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People look at any car and think about an LS swap.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:53

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Oh my god, I need this

liquid1036 > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 09:56

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did anyone click the actual link to the listing? TOTAL CP look at the gutted interior...

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > liquid1036 01/23/2014 at 09:58

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My assumption is that those are in progress build pics. I'm going to e-mail the guy and see if he'll chime in.

Edit: I sent him a text with a link to this post. Let's see if he hops on.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 10:23

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I love that the first word after "automatic" is "sorry." This guy is one of us. He needs to be on the front page.

Sn210 > gometz 01/23/2014 at 10:23

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Agreed, stock alloys with high performance rubber would do it for me

ThatWillBuffOut > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/23/2014 at 10:25

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It seems the general consensus is NP, if done well. It is so ridiculous and insane that it makes it worth the price. Although I'd want to swap a manual trans in there. It's very close to NP for me. I would need more information.

MrSkull > gometz 01/23/2014 at 23:12

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Green wheels are still there, along with some "rice sticker", smoked taillights, and it received some H&R lowering springs when I rebuilt the suspension at 1ook miles. Now my wife wants to know when we can shoehorn an LS swap into it lol!

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