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Fancy taking an old Skoda Rapid.
Building a full steel wide body kit for it, including wide box sill extensions, spray it in a suitable Skoda colour like slate grey and add rally/motorsport graphics, and plenty of patches of laquered over primered panels.
Fit a lowered suspension kit and decent 16" wheels with rubberband tyres.
Then take a Fabia 1.4 classic engine (proper Skoda job not the Polo 1.4 16V), wire it up with a Megasquirt, a small top mounted IC and a T2 from Ford TDi, with a decent 2" straight through system with a cherrybomb for silencing, with a small ECU powered shot of Nitrous and water injection to keep down knock.
Should be able to push a useable 100+bhp + the Nitrous comfortably, and it would still sound like a turbo'd Skoda.
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hehe,.. I thought you were on a budget  Sounds good though! |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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It'll be another of those Fantasy specs for a while I'm afraid.
But the Megasquirt would work out at arround £300ish if I imported a built one from the states.
Turbo could be ebayed or bought cheap from a scrappy.
Same with the IC.
Biggest thing that lets me down is not having a lock up where I could gradualy accumulate the car or the bits for it.
Missus would notice the direct debit for the rent, and if she did, I would be looking at a sudden reduction of about 50% from the household income.
Oh well, there is always euromillions on Friday, and you never know, my share options in the company where I work might actually be worth something one day.
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I know, I've got loads of these fantasies for how I want the Imp as well, then I remember that I don't actually have the money to do any of them. I was thinking the other week "why don't I stick a bike engine in the Imp, that'd be great fun" or similar, then I realised why... Because I'm skint! ;D ;D ;D ;D Also the 998cc engine I was thinking about is looking like it'll stay fantasy at the moment and I'll have to make do with a messed about 875!  |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Horrible isn't it.
As ongoing fun projects they would be that expensive, or difficult, but you aren't rushed to finish in a weekend, because you need the car for monday.
But something always comes up, like the mortgage, or a new clutch in th daily driver, or the missus wants a new carpet.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Stop it, your just trying to take my dreams |
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;D ;D ;D
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Stop it, your just trying to take my dreams Yep, i'm afraid even the most ratty-budget project seems to always end up costing a small fortune - a mate of mine is building a 62 Beetle Rat drag racer, its cost him at least a good couple of grand so far and he hasn't even got an engine yet  However, if you don't have dreams - lifes not worth living   |
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However, if you don't have dreams - lifes not worth living well said that man ;D |
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Sounds like a plan, although I'm not sure about the box arches  . |
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Just to make it ourageously different, like the Estelle Evolution kit, and like the old White Rapid that Dave Macalendan had, that he adapted an Evo kit to fit.
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Thinking of going "RATRO"...BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Ooooh this sounds well cool! Projects like this don't have to be expensive - my current cost total for the Mercedes V8 project is £120, and that includes buying the engine! OK, so it isn't finished yet but I reckon on spending another £100 to complete it as most of the stuff I need to do now costs time more than money! ;D Top mounted ICs - try Pug / Citroen diesels. They're a bit on the large size but are quite thin. Although any IC can of course be mounted horizontal, as you know! I have a couple of small KKK turbos knocking around if you want 'em for beer money. I was going to make a jet engine out of one (for a larf) but I'll probably end up killing myself in the process anyway! |
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It's still at the dream stage, so buying Turbos now is the last thing I want to do. Finding somewhere to keep it, and finding the car would be number one and two I think. Next would have to be locating a rear end smash Fabia Classic, or a fabia 1.4 engine with the sensors etc intact. Someone like Roadside rescue could help with that I guess. Was thinking either a Saab 900 T16 IC (very square shape with intake and exit on the same side) or an ST185 that is a nice cross flow design, fairly thick but compact. Then cut out a nice vent into the engine cover lid, fit a hood scoop of somekind to direct airflow into it. I know that Nitrous system would be easy/cheap/safe to build using Burgerman's site, and as you say, small turbos can be picked up for beer money if you can find one lying arround. Been looking at ready built Megasquirt ECUs and you can pick them up for about £200 if you buy them from the US. Biggest thing would be to find machine shops to sort the sump for oil return, make up manifold adaptors for the turbo, and bend up a decent flowing exhaust system. |
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