In reply to wspohn:
thanks! I need to look into that one more...
In reply to wspohn:
thanks! I need to look into that one more...
I'd like to do something with an old 2-stroke Saab. I was inspired by that guy building a bespoke version of a Kohler 2-stroke H6 in his sports racer, but don't know if there's any good 2-stroke upgrade options that don't brake the bank. What about dropping a WRX driveline in one?
GSmith wrote: I've got another..... 90s boxy Caravan + second motor in the rear (like the TwinStar) and paint it up like a huge Mini Cooper. When I first thought of this, it would have been the Maxi Cooper, or Mega Cooper. Nowadays, probably the Cooper Continent edition, since club and country are already taken.
King Cooper? Super/Sooper/Souper Cooper?
After we finish my son's project (requires us to start) I would like to take an SC300/SC400, change it to rear engined, using a Toyota powerplant if possible, or a FWD LS4 motor? Turbo'd. Redo the body in the same vein as the Mercedes CLK GTR complete with lift up doors using the Lexus design elements but adding a grill with a bigger Lexus emblem. Goal would be a fast and unique street car as I don't autocross or race. I have no engineering background and no experience with engine swaps let alone changing a FR to a RR. Would lean heavily on GRM for advice. Hoping nobody steals my idea.
I have a few.
Not telling yet.
The next project I'm planning is very original:
People usually beat me to my own ideas though.
Let's see...
I want to build a fully functional toy-hauler RV based on a van. I'd be perfectly willing to buy I one if anyone offered it.
Once upon a time, I wanted to graft my 1800ES on to a Miata floor pan, but NOHOME's experience has removed that delusional idea. Now, a more traditional restomod will be fine.
I'm pretty sure every other build idea I've had has been done.
Kreb wrote: I'd like to do something with an old 2-stroke Saab. I was inspired by that guy building a bespoke version of a Kohler 2-stroke H6 in his sports racer, but don't know if there's any good 2-stroke upgrade options that don't brake the bank. What about dropping a WRX driveline in one?
Got you covered!
An SVT Zetec bolts to at the 4 cylinder transmission in the Pinto. Nuff said.
Maybe a turbo too.
Ian F wrote: Let's see... I want to build a fully functional toy-hauler RV based on a van. I'd be perfectly willing to buy I one if anyone offered it. Once upon a time, I wanted to graft my 1800ES on to a Miata floor pan, but NOHOME's experience has removed that delusional idea. Now, a more traditional restomod will be fine. I'm pretty sure every other build idea I've had has been done.
Curious what aspect scared you off? I still think it was a pretty good idea, albeit a tich of work and time and $$$ required. If you can live without the engine swap and leave the fuel tank in its native environment, it would not be a hard project; I brought that upon myself.
The rest is just figuring out stuff like the wheelbase stretch and where to knit the sills together , and I have pretty much laid that out. Think of all the floor and cross member repair time it will save you!
In reply to NOHOME:
To put it simply, the effort to benefit ratio isn't there. A stock car is already 80-90% of what I want. For me, the end result is more important than the journey to get there. I want a nice 1800ES cruiser. The stock car with a few modifications will get me there faster than swapping in a Miata pan.
I like driving cars more than building and working on them. I'd happily pay someone to build my dream cars if I could afford it.
Ian F wrote: In reply to NOHOME: To put it simply, the effort to benefit ratio isn't there. A stock car is already 80-90% of what I want. For me, the end result is more important than the journey to get there. I want a nice 1800ES cruiser. The stock car with a few modifications will get me there faster than swapping in a Miata pan. I like driving cars more than building and working on them. I'd happily pay someone to build my dream cars if I could afford it.
If the Molvo works out as expected, I am going to have to arrange to run into you for a drive and see if I can change your mind! Or build one for you.
dimarra wrote: I'm surprised someone hasn't made a large-ish, billet-wheel/low-profile-tire combo where the rim of the wheel APPEARS to be the whitewall stripe of a smaller diameter tire.
They had these in the 90s. 17" wheels for your BMW that looked like 14" wheels with whitewall tires.
Yes, that was the intended market.
Mine is to build a rwd or better yet 4wd 4th gen Honda prelude.
I'd like to run a forced induction Honda v6, probably turbo, because well I like turbo noise.
When I first got my 4th gen it had rwd on the number plate and I used to sit and think "if only", also stirred a few guys up by saying I'd done a conversion. So now I'm actually going to have to do it
It has probably been done already, but I always wanted to build a Bugatti Type37/locost with either Miata based or some sort of in-line 6 cylinder (possibly a 5 cylinder Chevy Colorado??)
Second is more crazy and less practical (how's that possible??): A "locost" based on a Cummins 12V 3/4 ton made to look like a 20's Stutz Bearcat speedster.
Many years ago I owned a hand me down 1974 AMC Matador with a 304 V8, making maybe 140 HP (what it felt like anyway) I always wanted to lower it an inch or so on some wide steelies, put in a real motor, tint the windows dark and upgrade the suspension. Just a true sleeper type car
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In reply to Kreb:
I LOVE those style Saabs. I really, really wanted to buy one that popped up recently for peanuts, but the wife said no... Well, it was worded a bit more harshly, but I paraphrased. It was the V4 version though. Then 2 hours later a Sonnet III went up for sale. So much want.
As for projects, I'm building mine W108 with M119 and a manual trans. I hope it is everything I want it to be. Haha
Someone mentioned people beating then to the punch. I also suffer from no time and no money-itus and people usually beat me to the end on my projects too. Oh well, what can you do. At least you can watch their mistakes not make them yourself. 
I'd also really like to do up an Opel Manta, or, if I could find one, an Opel Commodore, but thems be dreams.
Oh I have sooooo many of these.
The "T-Storm" a modern take on the T-bucket using the body from firewall back of a geo storm wagon, channeled over the frame of an S-10, powered by a polished twin turbo vortec 4.3.
The "monsoon" A turbocharged GMC Safari set up to be the they-should-have-made-it stablemate to the Syclone and Typhoon.
How about a mid engined H22A Honda Del Sol? Again, the way it should have been.
A poor man's Clio. A jelly-bean ford Taurus wagon with the 32v v-6, moved to the rear wheels and fitted with a healthy turbo. Then chop as much out of the wheelbase as possible. A Clio-Taurus. A Clitaurus if you will. I'll admit I started with the name and worked backwards on that one.
A '90 Buick N-body Skylark GS fitted with a turbo L27 and wearing an LN3 intake manifold. Dressed up as a mini Grand National.
But If I could only build one of these and was given a sizable budget to do so it'd be this one.
A lowered widebody twin turbo isuzu Vehicross with some serious aero. Just an AWD hill-climbing monster in the vein of the escudo based on a seriously awesome car that nobody actually bought.
I could do this all day, but I'll stop for now.
NOHOME wrote: If the Molvo works out as expected, I am going to have to arrange to run into you for a drive and see if I can change your mind! Or build one for you.
I look forward to it. Maybe I'll have my ES done by then as well and we can compare. 
I did think of another project I've been hoping to do. The "Demon 666" car. A '71 Dodge Demon (we had one when I was a kid), with a lightened and balanced Slant-6, 6 ITB EFI, and a 6 spd manual transmission. Painted semi-gloss black with red accents. 
Along with typical resto-mod upgrades to the suspension, interior and HVAC.
AClockworkGarage wrote: The "monsoon" A turbocharged GMC Safari set up to be the they-should-have-made-it stablemate to the Syclone and Typhoon.
This has been my plan for our 92 AWD Safari for a couple years now... just need other stuff to stop breaking
Madhatr wrote:AClockworkGarage wrote: The "monsoon" A turbocharged GMC Safari set up to be the they-should-have-made-it stablemate to the Syclone and Typhoon.This has been my plan for our 92 AWD Safari for a couple years now... just need other stuff to stop breaking
In my opinion the only way to really pull it off is if it looks factory.
AClockworkGarage wrote: A poor man's Clio. A jelly-bean ford Taurus wagon with the 32v v-6, moved to the rear wheels and fitted with a healthy turbo. Then chop as https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/media/img/icons/fam/text_bold.pngmuch out of the wheelbase as possible.
On your first one see page 2 where I suggested the same but call it a Hurricane and as for the Clio Taurus I bet that doesn't get quoted in next months GRM
I've got the AWD S10 truck in my head, too. I'd really like a Typhoon or Syclone, but I don't have the capital for them.
That sounds real good! Got to win the lottery tough...
HappyAndy wrote: This is my most recent lunatic project idea that I could never complete,but is probably possible for someone: Tesla model S rebodied as as mid-sixties Lincoln Continental, suicide doors, wide whitewalls and all.
I would build a track taxi out a previa. Lowered, widened, with a mid mount v8. Awd if possible. Maybe a r33 gtr awd trans with front mount diff would work...
In reply to physician:
Like a poor man's Espace F1?
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