Euro hot rods

mainlandboy wrote: Speaking of nice hot rod Volvos: http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/28/hot-rod-jakob-a-stunning-tribute-to-first-volvo/ Mark

Sweet jesus that's hot.

BoxheadTim wrote: I've still got this slightly daft idea of taking a BMW 02 series and sticking the 1.8l 16Ver out of a 318is in it, complete with five speed etc. Probably MS it up then using bike throttle bodies and with a decent exhaust you should be about 20bhp down on a 2002 turbo with nicer power delivery. Before starting to try and get more power out of the engine. Paint it an "invisible" colour like silver, leave the body standard, put some nice wheels on and 70s-style bucket seats in it.

I have wanted to buy an early E30 (with the chrome bumpers) and drop an M42/44 into it. I figure with a breathed on head, individual Throttle bodies, and some cams and exhaust, I could easily get one up there with the M3 in terms of power.

A lot of the BMW guys shun the 4 cylinders.. I think they have some great untapped potential once you get past the bottlenecks the factory put into them to keep those engines from outshining the 6 cylinder cars

I've got no info on that Sprite Rod. IIRC David Wallens snapped that pic at a car show...

Oh, and almost forgot this Volvo Rat Rod:

(no info on this either, 'cept that i remember it uses toyota pickup front suspension)

Xceler8x wrote: I've seen some very cheap BMW 2002's on the CL in Richmond lately. Like this one: Not rodded up yet but the potential is there.

That car has flares and an airdam - very interesting. Certainly an interesting candidate for a project.

I am planning on rat rodding a Stag sometime soon

How about eastern European? Like this Volga:

What th berkeley! I say to the Volga. It's gorgeous!

Joey

mad_machine wrote: I have wanted to buy an early E30 (with the chrome bumpers) and drop an M42/44 into it. I figure with a breathed on head, individual Throttle bodies, and some cams and exhaust, I could easily get one up there with the M3 in terms of power.

+1 on this, I assume you meant drop the M42 into a 2002? Didn't GRM suggest this in about December of 05-ish with their 318is? It can be supercharged

M42 into an 02 (the rest of the world also got a 1502, 1602 and 1802) was what I thinking about...

I think mad_machine wanted to drop it into an early four banger E30. It'll probably work well in an E21, too...

im thinking an early 80's jag xjs with an ls1 or better conversion, tubbed and lightened would be kick ass...

Ghia much???

i like every KG except that one. WTF is with that paint?

I know this 3.0CSI that looks great from fifty feet, but is absolutely riddled with rust. It would be a nightmare to properly restore. OTOH the guy wants 1k for it and would probably let it go for half that. I'd like to do a quick-and dirty bodywork job on it, remove the old 6 + auto and put in a Chevy 350 plus roots blower sticking out the hood. No, I don't have a secret desire to piss off BMW owners edit: Problem is, with all that rust, the electronics are probably shot too

I think a SBF in an early 3-series would be relatively easy and very nice. I would also enjoy the 350i tag on the back.

I was thumbing through the Volvo club magazine in the waiting room of a local independant shop, maybe a year ago. There was an article about someone who had massaged a P-1800 body onto a Corvette chassis.

I've never seen any mention of this car anywhere else.

Capri?

In reply to bludroptop:

I think the Corvette's about a foot wider and longer, isn't it?

joey48442 wrote: What th berkeley! I say to the Volga. It's gorgeous! Joey

Hand-built car based on a BMW 850. Gorgeous, isn't it?

kreb wrote: In reply to bludroptop: I think the Corvette's about a foot wider and longer, isn't it?

Yes - that factored into why it was such an impressive project. As I recall, the Volvo body was cut into sections and filler panels were grafted to enlarge it to fit the chassis. It was, no doubt, more complicated than that - the proportions were spot on.

Joey, IIRC that Volga is a one-off. One picture shows the stock version. The one-off was built using a 7-series BMW, I think.

Oops. Just read ZOOMiata's response. He's right. Back into my corner,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The Volga was built with 850 running gear, IIRC. It was built in Russia.

C&D did an article about it a couple of years ago.The impression that I got from the article was that the builders were a little off kilter.Sort like the Russians in the movie "xXx" with Vin Diesel.

JFX001 wrote: The Volga was built with 850 running gear, IIRC. It was built in Russia.

I doubt you'd find anybody outside Russia daft enough to build something like this...

JFX001 wrote: C&D did an article about it a couple of years ago.The impression that I got from the article was that the builders were a little off kilter.Sort like the Russians in the movie "xXx" with Vin Diesel.

Ah, they were perfectly normal then, at least IME from working with Russians .

That volga's insanely cool. That took some serious imagination or a crapload of vodka - probably both. OK how about mercedes mclaren running gear under a trabant?