I do all the work… I’m the only one here son. It gets lonely sometimes, but we’re busy so it’s all good! Unfortunately I’m only one person running the whole shootin’ match, but I welcome everyone to stop in!
Yeah, I like the way this one looks too. They’re really not bad little cars, but I wish they brought over some more of the euro stuff… like AWD and a turbo… yeah.
This one made it to the lot once I think, but if you’ve ever stopped by here you’ve seen it at one time or another. There’s been a few road blocks along the way with distributors and such.
This car should put down around 220 HP and i think 215TQ @ 7psi… which is about at much as we’ll see from the automatic, but the car is already slated to get a Lentech transmission with a higher stall converter to make some better numbers. The engine can handle 11psi without sacrificing engine life, but that dependent on how it’s driven. Unfortunately the numbers for the 11psi on auto are not available due to well, a crappy non built stock tranny. The car still hauls, but we’ve run into a flow problem on the inlet side of the turbo that’s causing overboosting which is being straightened out by a new intake tube which should be here tomorrow. Oh yeah, the oil pan baffle that got destroyed in transit will be going in as well tomorrow assuming the parts arrive on time. This is a pretty well rounded setup except for the intake flow problem.
lol, it’s not a bad little car, really. It’s just a little rough around the edges when it comes to certain comfort features, but it’s a cheap and inexpensive car with some potential I never knew it had! The numbers that these car are puting down are quite remarkable for a stock motor when you compare them to a stock MAYBE 130 crank HP. Not to mention including the price of the car and labor it cost around 20k or so total to make a nice little DD.
yeah it is quite the sleeper. before it had the kicks and it was just on hubcaps you’d never even notice it.
after a ride, it does rip pretty good though, its just too bad its an auto imo.
You’ll actully lose a little bit of power(as the dyno reads) with a higher stall conveter. They take more power to spin, but the 60’ & 1/4 times will go down substantially! Cool little project