What would you build?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

A high-speed van SERIOUSLY appeals!  Forget yer TD5 though, has to be a V8.  I've driven a TVR-powered Landy, which just had seamless urge, and looked like any other S3LWB.  Sleepers are the shitists' way forward!

This one does ok without a V8, just a V6 out of a Metro.

[inconsistant]

I'd buy an XJS and an Allegro estate and make the car that the Lynx Eventer could have been.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'd buy an XJS and an Allegro estate and make the car that the Lynx Eventer could have been.

I think the engine and box might be a bit too tall and it would have to be a 1750, XJS' are heavy.

[mat_the_cat]

Mat-the-cat (can't be arsed to find where stupid phone has put bloody underscore symbol) has put a 19 Turbo Xantia engine in his BX estate. I think one of them in a hatch would be hilarious.

 

I'd be tempted to make it into a 4x4 if I had a bit more cash; other than that it's just about perfect after 10 years of ownership. Maybe I subconsciously set my goals at a lowish level so that they are realistically achievable? Again, it's a bit of a sleeper as you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the engine that it has an extra 24 bhp and 40 lb/ft over standard

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

An LS1 in an e32 would be a hoot..

 

But actual money no object would be the loudest biggest engine possible plonked into a 1920s bentley chassis.

 

Basically a muthafuckin fast truck with 4 seats and cable brakes

i've seen a vette lump in a z3

[Justin Case]

A Ferrari 355 with MR2 bodykit*

 

 

 

 

 

* This is Autoshite

[catsinthewelder]

Wandering round the local lanes looking at the chod in corners of fields around 10 years back I wanted to build a Landcrab pickup (before I knew that there were factory examples down under) with the XUD and suspension from a BX and the 4x4 transmission from a Panda.  The ropey BX in this scenario was the car I'd just bought six years later when I discovered this website.

[willswitchengage]

 

What would you build?

 

Steam with a grain of salt.

[Fabergé Greggs]

I'd be tempted to make it into a 4x4 if I had a bit more cash; other than that it's just about perfect after 10 years of ownership. Maybe I subconsciously set my goals at a lowish level so that they are realistically achievable? Again, it's a bit of a sleeper as you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the engine that it has an extra 24 bhp and 40 lb/ft over standard

 

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What did you do to it to get the power hike?

[inconsistant]

I'd buy an Allegro estate and own the car that the Lynx Eventer could have been.

FTFM

[Mr Lobster]

If there was money and talent in surplus then I'd like this -

 

Renault Estafette van with 2.0 16v lump from a circa 2000 Laguna / Megane / Clio - reliable and at that time little to go wrong. Slightly lowered and stiffer suspension and on wider wheels but standard otherwise. Would make a useful, high speed tat hauler.

[mercrocker]

I would like to put a PT Cruiser body on a Ford Pilot chassis, burn the interior and fit a Morris Minor MM dash and seats.   Then we could all be happy again.....

[mat_the_cat]

What did you do to it to get the power hike?

 

Well, I got an extra 2 bhp (on paper at least) by changing the engine for the slightly bigger Xantia unit. The rest was down to a different cam, increasing the boost and fuelling to suit, and a freer flowing exhaust. I tried experimenting with a straight pipe welded in instead of the middle silencer, which was good power wise but embarrassingly noisy; then I was given a proper silencer bypass pipe from a BX 16v (which handily shares part of the exhaust with the TD) and the bends seemed to take out a lot of the noise:

 

 

TBH I'm not sure of the contributions of each factor as it's been gradually tweaked over several years but was only last year I got it on a rolling road and was surprised/pleased to find that by pure luck it all seemed to work very well together!

[chaseracer]

BMW 65hp flat twin in a 2cv makes for a superb drive, if the chassis is properly set up. Not difficult or expensive to do but many 2cvs have been bodged back together by 'specialists' who seem to specialise in resprays and fitting galv chassis which often ruin the way they go.

 

I am considering this for the Dyane.  The galv chassis is from the correct side of Yorkshire...

[Inspector Morose]

You just need to get it on the road first!

[chaseracer]

True, Andy - true...

 

Less sensibly, howzabout a 720E?

 

 

[Skizzer]

I'd buy an XJS and an Allegro estate and make the car that the Lynx Eventer could have been.

 

The best part of this idea is, not only would you get a V12 Allegro estate but also an XJS 1500 Super.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

True, Andy - true...

 

Less sensibly, howzabout a 720E?

 

 

I think they called it the E73

Possibly a one-off, the only place I can find anything is on 124.de and it's all in Welsh or summat.

[Fabergé Greggs]

BMW 65hp flat twin in a 2cv makes for a superb drive, if the chassis is properly set up. Not difficult or expensive to do but many 2cvs have been bodged back together by 'specialists' who seem to specialise in resprays and fitting galv chassis which often ruin the way they go.

 

Here's one with a few more horses - 95 - on an original chassis, standard suspension, which most don't believe:

 

That is very cool. One of those in an Ami break, please.

[mat_the_cat]

I think they called it the E73

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Possibly a one-off, the only place I can find anything is on 124.de and it's all in Welsh or summat.

 

Do you have a link please? That looks ace!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Do you have a link please? That looks ace!

http://www.motor-talk.de/forum/e-420-e-600-e-730-t-modell-t643808.html

 

I think this was where it was.

[forddeliveryboy]

I am considering this for the Dyane.  The galv chassis is from the correct side of Yorkshire...

 

Oh good! I'm presuming the ones from opposite Londis? They're great under a Dyane. You can improve things no end with a bit of 3 or 4" tube welded between the rails forwards of the front suspension. It alters the centre of twist to something near to the original, improving the turn in nicely without altering the overall good character. Boxing in the corners to replicate the elegant hemispheres of the originals also has a good effect on driveability.

 

People often think the chassis forms all of the structure of these vehicles - the bodies provide much more strength for torsion and bending than most would believe, which is why the various A-series had different strenghts of chassis.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I would make a Volvo b40 V8 using b20/B30 bits, fuel inject it and fit it to a specially made Volvo 165 shell.

[New POD]

Ah the classic "because I could question"...........and yet most of the things I have thought about I have actually seen done, such is the power of the internet

 

So I think just a bare metal restoration of the Mx5, followed by building a * supercharged and turbo'd 1.6 engine, somehow fitting it with a 6 speed, and painting it in dull colours.

 

If lancia can do it with the Delta, so can I with an MX5

[Partridge]

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I sold a terminally rotten PA Cresta to a lunatic who two doored it, and stuck in on top of a Jag V8 monocoque.............

aside from the alloys...I think that is bloody stunning.

[warren t claim]

For proper misery motoring I'd build a Perkins Prima Turbo powered Range Rover classic.

 

For shits and giggles try and fit a BDA engine into a new Mondeo and try to civilise it.

 

I also quite fancy dropping a Scania V8 into a custom huge ass 4x4 SUV.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I posted that I'd like to create some V8 versions of 60's barges in a period style,one that always seemed a no brainer to me was a small block PC Cresta/ Viscount and I have no doubt that there must have been at least a couple of Crestas fitted with V8s by the factory.

But,I don't know what they were smoking at Luton in the mid-sixties when someone suggested creating a 7.0 Litre front wheel drive Cresta using Tornado/Eldorado running gear

http://vauxpedianet.uk2sitebuilder.com/vauxhall-pc---cresta-7.0-litre-v8-fwd-test-mule

 

So, my new what would you build involves a replica of this.

 

 

Edited to add its Toronado apparently, ive gone my whole life thinking it was Tornado,every day's a school day!

[Taff]

couple of things I would like to try.

 

1949-53 Chevy 2 door sedan over an E34 325 floorpan (same track and wheelbase and within 100 kg kerb weight, believe it or not.) Early Americana looks with tuetonic reliability. 

 

Mk2 Ford Zephyr/Zodiac on a Citreon BX floorpan.

 

1927 Model T coupe with a chevy s/six and power glide

 

Austin Maxi  in matt black and roof-rack, with a space frame chassis, Mercedes 5000 v8 and Alfa trans-axle. No idea how it would work but it would make the scene types froth as they tried to label it.

 

Cosworth Sierra with a 1600 pinto in, cheaper on insurance you see...

[sierraman]

A ford Ka with a k series mated to a renault automatic gearbox with the electronic handbrake from an insignia.

[twosmoke300]

^^^ and all the body electrics via a control unit situated below the plimsol line in the footwell aka Audi a4 Vw Pisswet