Bench Racing Idea: Ferrari LeMons Content

Soo..... After finding the picture of the "Sick Gut Gaguar" earlier today, I found a link going to their build thread. They were talking about how tough it was engineering a FWD engine going in the back of their Geo.

Got me thinkin...

Recall the Ferrari 308GT4 that was in rough condition that was posted on here and eventually purchased by my Boss? Well, the shell itself is beyond thrashed and is in no condition to be sold for parts.

BAM!!!

Buy the 308 shell off my boss at a "reasonable" price, find a early Ford Taurus SHO, and make myself a 308GT4SHO?

All the things he is going to resell will be removed anyway for racing. Come up with some suspension for it off of an Accord or something, cage, safety stuff...

Duh.

You think we're going to tell you no????

You know all those Fieros with the terrible fakerrari body kits?

You can have the best/worst of them all!

That's and awful idea, an awfully good one.

Dude, seriously, you must shove a Fiero under that shell! (At least for LeMons). There's no way anybody would throw you into BS for that!

peter wrote: You know all those Fieros with the terrible fakerrari body kits? You can have the best/worst of them all!

Seriously, put Fiero GT parts under and really screw with people.

Iron Duke Power! FTW!

also create a build thread on some ferrari forum and share the link with us.

Duke,

If you seriously take this on call me, I'm over in Dunwoody, looks like you're back in Atlanta? If so I'd be all about helping you put this together, nothing asked in return. I'm getting half decent at sheet metal rust repair (Fiat) :)

Fo SHO. At least put Fiero emblems all over it. Preferably a screaming chicken of some sort on the hood. Even if it's not really fiero.

Put it on an old subaru drivetrain. Front-engined and AWD :)

Most excrellent dude! I'm in Loganville and work in Chamblee. I have a bunch of C900 SAAB stuff if that helps.

Go for it and then sneak into a Ferrari-only track day and beat an original one

I don't think it would be very hard. Only hard part would be adapting some sort of suspension. The original suspension is expensive. Hell, the suspension bushings are $130 each! If i can keep the control arms and adapt some hubs and coilovers, I think we would be in business!

Time to get some measurements. Toss them up and I'm sure with the help of everyone here we can get some equivalent parts figured out. I bet some weird combination that no one ever expected is doing to bolt right up. Wonder if with a little welding, some circle track parts could be adapted from Speedway Motors.

Yea, want to get a weight on the car with motor/trans, gauge a ride height and spring size and rate and try and find a coilover set to rig in place of the original.

I would imagine that a stripped GT4 would be sub 2500 pounds. Add a motor/trans, cage, ect. it would get up to 2700 or so.

So, cars in that weight range. Mk4 Jettas? Honda Accords?

Probably would use the wheels off of the hubs and brakes/wheels off of the Taurus or whatever we buy.

I thought SHO motors were hard to find, even harder to find parts for. Buddy of mine races his in hillclimbs. Lots of other options for modern V-6s.

David

DWNSHFT wrote: I thought SHO motors were hard to find, even harder to find parts for. Buddy of mine races his in hillclimbs. Lots of other options for modern V-6s. David

I'd go GM 3800 . . . no sense in having unobtanium for both the chassis and the motor.

DWNSHFT wrote: I thought SHO motors were hard to find, even harder to find parts for. Buddy of mine races his in hillclimbs. Lots of other options for modern V-6s. David

They're easy to find.....and cheap. The harder thing is finding a 89-90 sho transmission, as you'll need the cable actuated shifter....the funniest part is, it should be nearly as fast as when it was new.

Duke, if you have any questions, ill answer them or find an answer for you.

The motors aren't that bad. You just need a couple 300 dollar parts cars.

yamaha wrote: the funniest part is, it should be nearly as fast as when it was new.

Actually I looked it up and the SHO motor has more HP and torque. It would be faster than the real thing.

In reply to GameboyRMH:

That is great!

GameboyRMH wrote:

yamaha wrote: the funniest part is, it should be nearly as fast as when it was new.

Actually I looked it up and the SHO motor has more HP and torque. It would be faster than the real thing.

Buwahahahahaha Also, I know certain ferraris share the Taurus 5x108mm bolt pattern......and if you wanted a set of slicers(the 16" sho wheels the gaguar guys use for free, id be more than willing to give a set to the cause)

Im excited to see this as an idea, there's been a 914 swapped, healey, rangers, etc....but never a budget ferrari

There's a whole army of SHO people in Atlanta. They should have all the parts you need to make this happen.

Either the GM 3800, or VW VR6. There's got to be a bunch of either hanging out in junkyards.

EDIT: I can't believe I'm a native Southerner, and missed the "Fo' SHO" pun. Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah! Man, if's that's not a team theme, they don't exist.