What crazy car project would you like to do?

[BobS]

I would like the Cosworth motor shown on Youtube doing 20,000 rpm in a Detomaso Pantera with hub motors feeding regen into a very large bank of supercaps just behind the seats to get that instantaneous torque that only electrics can deliver.

[jcp123]

For some reason I'm also getting a bug to do a Saab 9-5 Wagon build too.

[freebeard]

I can still recall a sketch I saw in one of the 'little' hot rod mags when I was in High school. It was a black-with-flames chopped '34 Ford 3-window coupe. What made it different, and unforgettable, was that it had baloney-cut megaphone lakes pipes that pointed over the top of the rear tires. And the doors had been gull-winged. The bottoms of the doors were cut off at an angle to clear the up-swept sidepipes. It was seriously cool.

So I found a build thread on thesamba.com for a Fad T with a mid-engine flat four, that was originally built in the '70s and is currently being restored.


TheSamba.com :: View topic - Grizzly Super Vee Tee re-build thread

Stretch the wheelbase and change out the faux header and you'd be on the way to a car that looks like ZZ Top's '34 but that can stand up on it's air bags and run up the side of a hill.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by jcp123

For some reason I'm also getting a bug to do a Saab 9-5 Wagon build too.

I'd like to put some direct-injection 2-stroke 3-cylinder engine, such as those marine ones, into a modern Saab.

[backpacker3]

I would love to do a rally build on one of the early 2000s Saab 9-3 hatchbacks I've always thought that the 9-3s were so cool and quirky.

[CargoBoatTails]

Originally Posted by backpacker3

I would love to do a rally build on one of the early 2000s Saab 9-3 hatchbacks I've always thought that the 9-3s were so cool and quirky.

like the one in that movie with the guy who has multiple personalities lol

[CargoBoatTails]

Originally Posted by freebeard

- I'm not picturing a front engine Diablo

Can you picture the back of a 911? Boxer engines have a low profile, especially on motorcycles.

[CargoBoatTails]

How bout a scaled up Urbee minivan, say 80 inches at the widest, same proportions.

[freebeard]

You can freely edit your posts within five minutes. Urbee is radically different from the Diablo, so OK.

I was thinking something like what the Blackjack Zero uses might fit (with it's Weber carb laid back over the transaxle), but it's really not much lower than a Porsche/Subaru boxer.



A lot shorter though. Hey, the Urbee is a reverse trike, how about this (scaled down)?



Edit: ...since nobodies posted in the last few hours:

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014...tudebaker.html


I've been thinking about doing this to my Beetle, but in Lexan since Studebaker glass would be expensive.

[Bow]

This Engine (currently In My Garage) 6-speed manual behind it
In a Lotus 7 Clone Chassis
with a Fiat 500 Topolino style body made more Aero for running at Bonneville... but also street legal