AWD 74 Civic, Vette based CJ7, Ford 2.3T powered 914, MB W123 turbo diesel wagon 4x4...

A few cars I've built over the years. My favorite was the little AWD civic. I drove it almost 200K miles in 10 years. Sold it in 2014 :( [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/VolvoHonda.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/914July2007006.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/914_8_29_07001.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/914_8_29_07002.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/4x4_mb_300td.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/74Civic4x4001.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/74Civic4x4002.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/RthRdstr_10_27_08005.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/Civic4x4001.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/JpThgBareSide.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/JpThgStrippedVette2.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/914turboford/media/Jeepthing007.jpg.html][/URL]

Love the Civic

I love crazy. Nice work too!

Thanks! The civic was more or less a body swap using a 91 RT4WD civic wagon (wagovan) chassis. I took the viscous coupling out and made a shifter so you could manually select fwd or awd. For the last 30K miles I had a little turbo on it. The car weighed 2450lbs. Kinda heavy but not too bad for awd. It had nice working AC, cruise control, a power window on the passenger side, 6 forward speeds, 4WDB...

The CJ vette (named JeepThing by my daughter) was not very polished. I never even hooked up a switch to operate the cooling fan. I did an LSx swap. It ran and drove. I sold it cheap ($3K) on ebay. A Whipple engineer, who lives in Sweden, bought it and intended to ship it over. Not sure if he did.

What was the Merc 300TD chassis?

It was on a Nissan 720 chassis. That was the pre hard body pickup chassis. They had a neat little divorced transfer case and the wheelbase of the king cab was 1/2 inch different from the wagon. I used the MB trans and a coupler shaft to the transfer case. I had that car running as a 4x4 10 days after it was driving as a 2x. That was one of my easiest swaps. Worked pretty well over all. I actually sold that one for real money, compared to what I got for a lot of the other ones at least. A guy flew up to Sacramento from LA and gave me $5K, which was a lot more than I had in it.

That's really cool that you were able to keep the Merc trans. I'm surprised everything lined up well enough to make it work.

What's the deal with the yellow "Jeep thing?" You turned the Vette chassis into a Jeep mini-truck?

Yes but not a pickup. I cut the body off of an 84 C4 corvette and welded a CJ7 body to what was left. Then added an '03 4.8 LSx. There is a build thread here. http://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-hybrids/1325164-jeep-cj7-body-c4-chassis-powered-lr4.html