Car: What would you build?
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This person you met. He didn't, by any chance, have a British accent, long unruly hair, and an unfashionable shirt?
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- Cost
- Budget for swap recipient chassis
- Budget for mods and/or restoration of said chassis
- Type of driving to be done
- What is your daily commute like (1 hour stop-and-go on the highway; 15 minutes on surface streets; 10 minutes through secluded mountain roads; etc)
- What type of high-performance driving will you do (road course vs autox vs drifting vs drag racing)?
My first thought was: just buy a C5 Corvette.
You would be shocked at the amount of stuff you can stuff in the hatch. Alternatively, V8 RX-7. The FC chassis is relatively cheap (and has a hatch). The FD definitely ticks the right aesthetic and sporting boxes (and has a hatch!). Both have lots of documentation online.
Some of the options mentioned above will probably nickle and dime you to death with rust repair and electronic gremlins if you are unlucky.
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e30-e36 would be awesome, super cheap shell, tons of parts available.
240z is a good one, although they take alot of work to make "right" my buddy built one that was featured in a mag. beautiful car, but it needed a new steering rack, every bushing, entire new brake system, brake hard lines and all. they're over 30 years old so... another thing, they are really light.
fd rx-7. badass with a swap, and probably the only car you can actually make some money with when it's time to sell. he spent around 18k total, sold for 25k a few weeks ago, i think it was his third one.
944. another great swap. eveything is already made and figured out for you. my buddy in nasa did really good in st2 at nationals last month.
this is place for porsche swaps: http://www.renegadehybrids.com/
240z is a good one, although they take alot of work to make "right" my buddy built one that was featured in a mag. beautiful car, but it needed a new steering rack, every bushing, entire new brake system, brake hard lines and all. they're over 30 years old so... another thing, they are really light.
fd rx-7. badass with a swap, and probably the only car you can actually make some money with when it's time to sell. he spent around 18k total, sold for 25k a few weeks ago, i think it was his third one.
944. another great swap. eveything is already made and figured out for you. my buddy in nasa did really good in st2 at nationals last month.
this is place for porsche swaps: http://www.renegadehybrids.com/
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944. another great swap. eveything is already made and figured out for you. my buddy in nasa did really good in st2 at nationals last month.
this is place for porsche swaps: http://www.renegadehybrids.com/
this is place for porsche swaps: http://www.renegadehybrids.com/
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An LS IS300 would indeed be baller, except the last time I checked they where still pretty expensive, and I can find an E46 3 series with a manual for under 5K. I assume the car would probably need to be a manual in the first palace.
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Local just did an LSx IS300 swap. Bought a high mileage clean body car for around $7K, sold the stock drive train to recoup some funds. It was a pretty easy/straightforward swap, as in he was done in a couple months.
He ran it in Hot Rod's Drag Week and it came though without any problems.
Here's his build thread.
http://starcityracing.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=40592
He ran it in Hot Rod's Drag Week and it came though without any problems.
Here's his build thread.
http://starcityracing.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=40592
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