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Re: Design an autocross/street sleeper for fun...

To: jcreasy@perforce.com
Subject: Re: Design an autocross/street sleeper for fun...
From: james creasy <jcreasy@perforce.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:08:21 -0800
i told him, jam it under the firewall. 

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i201/FrankenProbe/P1012021.jpg

james
OSP - Obvious Sleepers Permitted


james creasy wrote:

> my friend is building an LS1 powered ford probe that will look 
> externally like a stock probe.  it uses an rx7 rear end.
> he asked my advice and i said move the motor as far rearward as possible.
> james
> OSP - Osteoarthritic Spinal Poundings
>
> Joe Weinstein wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>   Idle pondering, stimulated by the VW van video... If you wanted to 
>> build
>> a car that would never get a second look in a parking lot, and that 
>> would
>> seem beneath the contempt of any high-school slammed Civic driver, but
>> would perhaps have a Corvette donor suspension and drivertrain, and do
>> approximately as well as one in autocross, what do you think is doable?
>> The only visible hint from any distance is probably going to be the wide
>> wheels and tires and exhaust sound... Extra points if it's old enough to
>> be a pre-smog car.
>> thanks,
>> Joe




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