Grassroots thinking on a millionaire's budget

930 Turbo powered 356

This is insane and incredibly awesome at the same time.

How I wish I was a dotcom millionaire right now....

-Rob

320 turbocharged hp and a 4ft wheelbase should make that thing pretty entertaining.

I bet it is a handful to drive. Bigger tires and flares are needed. But I dig the sleeper look.

That thing looks twitchier then Steve Buscemi.

As far as grassroots... you might want to check the prices of 356's these days...

I wonder if it will wheelie?

I think it looks the sex

81cpcamaro wrote: I bet it is a handful to drive. Bigger tires and flares are needed. But I dig the sleeper look.

It is flared.

That's such a deliciously awful idea.

Would drive, then snap oversteer in to something.

I could crash that thing in about 5 seconds. 5 wonderful seconds none the less

very cool.. think I would start with a replica though

Sickness. God, I need to be wealthy.

Anyway, the footprint of that thing reminds me of the cars in Atari 2600 Indy 500:

I'm guessing the handling characteristics are very similar, too--switch ends in a nanosecond.

I want to build something equally crazy.

Take equal parts modified Meyers Manx and modified 993 Turbo engine

Mix liberally and instantly die.

Keep it on the sand and hopefully you would be sufficiently lacking in traction to stave off dying for a few seconds.

alex wrote: Keep it on the sand and hopefully you would be sufficiently lacking in traction to stave off dying for a few seconds.

No way, it's getting 13 inch wide slicks and fender extensions wide enough to cover them...

aircooled wrote: As far as grassroots... you might want to check the prices of 356's these days...

I didn't mean to indicate that 356's were grassroots priced. More of the, if any one of us won the lottery and had nothing but money to burn, we'd probably build something this ridiculous.

Except maybe figure out how to shoehorn in a turbo charged LS motor hooked to a 911 transaxle to officially piss off the Porsche purists.....

-Rob

rob_lewis wrote:

aircooled wrote: As far as grassroots... you might want to check the prices of 356's these days...

I didn't mean to indicate that 356's were grassroots priced. More of the, if any one of us won the lottery and had nothing but money to burn, we'd probably build something this ridiculous. Except maybe figure out how to shoehorn in a turbo charged LS motor hooked to a 911 transaxle to officially piss off the Porsche purists..... -Rob

there is a LS1 powered 993 running around houston/clear lake

rob_lewis wrote:

aircooled wrote: As far as grassroots... you might want to check the prices of 356's these days...

I didn't mean to indicate that 356's were grassroots priced. More of the, if any one of us won the lottery and had nothing but money to burn, we'd probably build something this ridiculous. Except maybe figure out how to shoehorn in a turbo charged LS motor hooked to a 911 transaxle to officially piss off the Porsche purists..... -Rob

sawzalls are pretty effective shoehorns.. and the effects of using one would really piss off the purists..

I hate you for putting this in my head!

Actually my wife hates you, I think its awesome and will be heading over to samba right now.

Maroon92 wrote: I want to build something equally crazy. Take equal parts modified Meyers Manx and modified 993 Turbo engine Mix liberally and instantly die.

I think a 993 Turbo engine swapped into just about anything is pretty awesome. I mean, would you take a 993 swapped Aztek? Damn straight you would.

I think I could stick my head in that turbo piping. Impressive.

You know you're running a big enough turbo when you have to source drainage piping for the intake.

I bet it does killer donuts. Literally.

Clarkson's pithy phrase "...going through the Pearly Gates backwards and on fire" keeps going through my head looking at this...

I wholeheartedly approve both of these.