You ideal mental/sleeper car?

1300cc Turbo bike engine in a Smart ForTwo, just for the carpark fun alone! Then there's the noise.

Could be built on the cheap too. Original ForTwos are gong for like £2500, Engine and box for around the same. Lots of hours swearing and fiddling. FUN!
 
I'd have a toyota aristo, the one with the supra engine in it - then stick some tatty lexus badges on it, maybe a disabled badge in the window, perhaps a "kids on board" sign too and then some nasty wheels.
 
I was talking about this in the office the other day, and on the basis that I couldn't watch all the money wasted, and am rather sans talent when it comes to anything with a spanner, I'd trawl the owners clubs for someone else's project that'd been done well, looking for:-

Tuned Bubble Turbo (I had a rover 200 as a first car, and when the head gasket went, I did think about a transplant)

IHI'd Lupo / Ibiza

Supercharged K20 Elise/Exige

Silly power Evo/Imprezza/Insert 4wd Jap Tat...

Gibbo's Stang

Eidolon's MR2

Will's P1 or previous silver classic, Drexel's classic
 
My mentalist sleeper car would be an old M reg Vauxhall Omega badged as a 1.7D with rusty arches, a primered wing and a wonky, falling off numberplate. Sat on Lotus Carlton running gear.

My slightly less mental idea is one of those girly Street Ka things. The one that looks like it should have an engine in the back. Well, the plan would be to put a throttle bodied 2.0 Zetec with perhaps 170-180bhp transversely in the back and make it RWD. Ka handling, RWD, and that much power in a lightish car should be a right old laugh, if not the fastest thing in the west.

IMO that's what Ford should have done in the first place, minus the TBs probably - just a 150bhp Fiesta ST engine would have done.
 
Robin Reliant with a supercharged V8 in the back (Middle) with side and rear stabilizers of cause! :D Could get messy without them!
 
Prolly a Reliant kitten with independent rear sus set up and a 1000 bike engine in the back. Apart from that standard looks with some 10" anthrecite minilites with polished rims.



Ohh and slammed:D
 
Hmmm for me it would have to be a tatty low spec Toyota Avensis with something silly shoehorned into it like an engine developed by brabus - it would be the most boring looking car possible and until unleashed it wouldnt even sound too extreme but there would be the possibility of 600bhp.

For me a sleeper just has to be impossible to predict.
 
[huzeeee];10082702 said:
Prolly a Reliant kitten with independent rear sus set up and a 1000 bike engine in the back. Apart from that standard looks with some 10" anthrecite minilites with polished rims.



Ohh and slammed:D
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Something like the Haybusa Smart? :cool:
 
I've actually seen a V8 mid engined mini van round here that was on a drive with a few other minis. It sounded awesome.
 
Don't get me wrong I get the idea of having a 'subtle' quick car - Audi have got that down really well. But i just dont understand peoples fascination with building a quick car that looks like a piece of ****.

DONT SWEAR
 
timbob said:
My mentalist sleeper car would be an old M reg Vauxhall Omega badged as a 1.7D with rusty arches, a primered wing and a wonky, falling off numberplate. Sat on Lotus Carlton running gear.
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has already been done (sorta), thre wasn't a 1.7D omega, but i know of at least one full set of LC running gear from a writeoff crash that found it's way into an Omega 2.0Select poverty model body..

looks very standard from the outside apart from the wheel arches needing to be widened slightly and the monster exhaust pipe :D


I have almost all the parts now for my own sleeper car, just working out the details and trying to aquire the space and skills to do it, the building blocks for my project are:

One broken Vauxhall Carlton GSI3000 Facelift model 24v, dead from terminal underside rust, complete with c30se engine (straight six, 3L, 24v, 210bhp) and cheesy casio style digital dashboard

Plus one early 80's opel manta GT/E coupe complete with slightly tired engine and in need of a respray

which will give me ~ 210bhp / 220lb-ft in a car that weighs in at about a ton


a few people have already done this conversion, so i know it can be done, but the main reason for it is that the c30se engine is the same block and head as the c36 engine in the Lotus Carlton.. so theoretically if the 3L engine fits... :D
 
[TW]Fox;10081341 said:
If I had to build a sleeper, I would buy an E39 BMW M5, and replace the front and rear bumpers with those from the SE, the wingmirrors with SE items, conceal the exhuasts as per SE, fit SE 17" wheels, and badge it as a 520i.
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Surely you could go for the 518 badging or maybe even the TDS!!!;)
 
there's a whole website dedicated to V8 Minis. Quite a few of them about, even a front engined one. Couple of videos too.
 
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