# Ghia owners : your new swap OMG
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [February 27, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678 "2006-02-27T21:23:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/1 "2006-02-27T21:23:24Z")
> Gives a new twist to the meaning of a SLEEPER…
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> Jochen Bader is a total Bad-ass. Long a proponent of juicing up classic cars with modern powerplants and seeing what’ll happen, he (and his team at Bader Racing) took a GT3-spec Porsche 3.6-liter mill from a 993-era 911 and slipped it into a Karmann Ghia. By “slipped” we of course mean “engineered to within an inch of its life.” The result is a 186mph screamer that still pretty much looks like it has something like 60 horses under the hood. The ultimate sleeper can be yours for around $260,000, if you’ve got 18 months to wait.
:headbang:
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/2 "2006-02-27T21:28:39Z")
911 swaps in aircooled veedubs = old news
Still hottttt :tup:
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### Author:  [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/3 "2006-02-27T21:30:15Z")
while the porsche rims do look hot, i would have left them off…otherwise that is one hell of a sleeper
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### Author:  [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/4 "2006-02-27T21:31:41Z")
i cant remember if i posted that on wnyscene or ubrf …
hot tho
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### Author:  [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/5 "2006-02-27T21:31:55Z")
!!!
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### Author:  [@Smaefer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smaefer)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/6 "2006-02-27T21:33:40Z")
Hot…
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### Author:  [@Boarderx192](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boarderx192)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/7 "2006-02-27T21:38:38Z")
Sexy
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### Author:  [@neurokinetik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neurokinetik)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/8 "2006-02-27T21:40:35Z")
There is only one problem with this… going fast on that old VW suspension is pretty much suicide… :lol:
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### Author:  [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/9 "2006-02-27T22:04:10Z")
> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> 911 swaps in aircooled veedubs = old news
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### Author:  [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/10 "2006-02-27T22:14:50Z")
there is no way its on the old suspension
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/11 "2006-02-27T22:23:57Z")
Wow, never thought I’d drool over a Ghia. Guess I was wrong. :tup:
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### Author:  [@73ghia](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/73ghia)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/12 "2006-02-28T04:14:38Z")
Those swaps are kinda common for those who have the $$ and time. In order to swap the motor one must also upgrade the entirity of everything… I’ve seen ppl swap in WRX motors into them, as well as tossing in small/ big block chevy motors in the front because of the larger front end over a beatle.
Still a hawt car… and I wouldnt’ mind owning one… Someone want to start up a collection for me to do that?
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/13 "2006-02-28T05:27:46Z")
Whoa that is pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/14 "2006-02-28T05:50:51Z")
> [@73ghia](#):
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> Those swaps are kinda common for those who have the $$ and time. In order to swap the motor one must also upgrade the entirity of everything… I’ve seen ppl swap in WRX motors into them, as well as tossing in small/ big block chevy motors in the front because of the larger front end over a beatle.
> Still a hawt car… and I wouldnt’ mind owning one… Someone want to start up a collection for me to do that?
Do you have any links to wrx swapped vws?
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### Author:  [@Twizted](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Twizted)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/15 "2006-02-28T05:52:52Z")
wow thats schweet
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### Author:  [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/16 "2006-02-28T06:18:03Z")
a stance like that doesn’t scream sleeper to me. :shrug: I’d think something was up, 'specially with those porsche rims on it.
but…
damn that’s hot. :tup: :tup:
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### Author:  [@73ghia](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/73ghia)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/17 "2006-02-28T14:34:23Z")
> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> Do you have any links to wrx swapped vws?
I use to but I can not find it.
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### Author:  [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/18 "2006-02-28T14:49:40Z")
I think the roll cage detracts from the “sleeper” image quite a bit…unless of course upon further inspection they are PVC pipes cuz its all about the show
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### Author:  [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/19 "2006-02-28T15:03:59Z")
> [@Mikes98RT](#):
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> while the porsche rims do look hot, i would have left them off…otherwise that is one hell of a sleeper
gotta fit the rubber under there or else you’ll never hook up
and i highly doubt those are show tubes…
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### Author:  [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ghia-owners-your-new-swap-omg/8678/20 "2006-02-28T15:06:39Z")
No way…they are totally show tubes…260k sticker price…no way they can justify that low cost without cutting some corners :roll2:
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