Ideas For Cheap Stealth Car

[jmac]

Hey guys, was talking to my mechanic the other day and he reckons it's a good idea to have a "sh*tter" to run around in, you can park it anywhere, the cops don't notice it, you don't worry if some prick keys it or shoves their shopping trolley (Daewoo!) into it, etc.

Got me thinking... anyone have any ideas for some amusing combinations? For some reason I thought of getting one of those old 80's Bluebirds and putting an SR20DET or RB25DET in it - could be an "interesting" combo.

Another conversion I've always thought was clever was a 90's grandpa Cressida with the Soarer turbo engine...

Just wondering if anyone else here has thought along the same lines?

Cheers!

[Big Rizza]

I saw a fridge white 1980's Volvo station wagon (740 or 760 I think?) running a 350 Chev for sale for $7500 a few months back. Anything will fit into that engine bay!!!

[Slide]

Hachiroku

[Patto-]

There's quite a few cressidas with turbo engines here on the central coast. They look pretty plain, just with 17's or 18's, then all of a sudden they've shot past you.

A mate of mine has a Sigma with an SR20DET. But with a loud exhaust, purple paint job and very wide simmons wheels, he still gets lots of attention.

Edited October 20, 2005 by shyster

[CEF11E]

I saw a proton with a 4G63 in it that put out 192FWKW.

it was faded blue and looked like shit.

[PHATR32]

i had a bucket of shit 4wd laser, shit paint, shit stock wheels, shit interior, but i had a familia GTR engine in it. 200hp @ all 4 wheels.

[siksII]

i reckon import bluebird, sr20det, 4wd, looks like the regular one.

[liber8_d]

Import Corona GT Turbo. Take off GT + Turbo badges and it looks just like a regular 'rona. Except with boost.

[NISMO_31]

There's a AE86 getting around with a RB25DET inside, made over 400hp atw and has run 10's on slicks, it's currently getting rebuilt with forgies etc....

[Miller the hoon]

mitsubishi triton ute 88 $1500 rwd

sigma 2.6t unregistered $1000 rwd

Rebuild the 2.6 and turbo + new clutch and exhaust

$9000 all up and this thing is a good worker + drifter+drager

[Patto-]

That reminds me when I was at a mechanics with a mate we saw a piece of shit VL. it had crap paint, chips, dents and marks all over it and 14inch wheels with hub caps.

Turns out it had a RB20DET with bigger turbo, hidden front mount etc. Costs anywhere from $1k - $2.5k to buy the vl, and about $5k to get the rb half cut put in. Not a bad sleeper, and would be cheaper than putting an rb in an old carby bluebird.

[02boost]

mitsu L300 van with 4g63, best i have seen.

[QWAK]

Hilux running a SR20. mates cousin had his down from nsw and it runs low 12's from memory

[racsov500]

i have a mate who has a old bluebird.. faded peeling paint with moss stains all over it.. dents.. rust..

and a 300KW SR20 in it! great sleeper.. apart from the stock brakes and suspension..

too bad its unregod and the end bearings are gone

[jmac]

all great ideas guys... hehe thanks!

the VL dunnydore idea is obviously one of the easier conversions to do but MAN are those things cop-bait cars. IMHO....

[scathing]

I saw a fridge white 1980's Volvo station wagon (740 or 760 I think?)  running a 350 Chev for sale for $7500 a few months back.  Anything will fit into that engine bay!!!

In the old Volvo 240 / 740s, its possible to have a 5.0L FI or 5.7L NA engine approved for ADRs. The engine bay is massive, its a FR layout, there's room to put massive tyres front and rear, and nothing says sleeper like a twin turbo Holden 308 in the Swedish brick......

[scathing]

If you're after a practical luggage-lugger that can also be a bit of a sleeper, people have slotted old air-cooled boxer 6's out of Porsches into VW vans.

[|ANT|]

my thoughts be be the old 4wd suby brumby or a scorpian!

[slamm]

what about an old merc, the diesel ones, from the seventies. Put an rb25det in that. i saw one advertised a few months ago for 500 bucks or something.

[jmac]

did some of those old mercs have an engine in them somewhere around the 7.0L mark anyway?? that would be so sweet.

*jmac imagines the weekly fuel bills... and turns white*