How many of you out there are completely sick and tired of those ricers that do nothing but body kits and spoilers on their cars and want to just show them where their money should be spent?

I have an idea for doing one such project. The car is a 1983 RX-7 that has been wrecked pretty hardcore, through holes in the hood, pasenger side light and fender, pretty well rusted up body and junk interior. But the engine, last i heard, had a fresh rebuild done on it and is supposed to run strong. The plan is spend $300 on the car, strip the interior down to bare metal and the two seats, then drop about $3,000 into the engine/transmission and take it racing.

I know i might sound insane, but i'm tired of all these damn kids (except the guy who owns the RX-8) who think they have hot *** cars but really have a rolling pile of fiberglass and i would love to just smoke them in a junk POS body with a hot *** engine.

~Sup

btw... my roomate and i have been laughing for a half hour know thinking of all the ways we could ghetto out this car (punch holes in the door to string a chain for locking it, take the cutting torch to the hood to make it "cowl induction" etc...)

 

haha YES you should do it. Then after you get bored simply swap into nice body. Two thumbs up on the entire idea from me.

 

HAH HAH thats great! Make sure you get some of it on video! So you can post it up! lol

 

We call that a sleeper. Make sure you put a good muffler on it.


V8 guys have been doing this from the model A.

 

Yeah, i realised that this was called a sleeper, but i usually hear the term "sleeper" in corelation to a "stock" configuration, or a configuration that appears to be stock but is really modded out the rear end (if you catch my drift).

I really just want this thing to look/sound like a POS that can barely run, i'm trying to figure out some way to make it sound like its backfiring yet have it running smooth, also thinking about coming up with an oil injection technique for the exhaust to make it look/smell like its burning just a bit-o-oil to add to the whole mistique. I mean, it would be just awesome to pull up to Rocky Mountain Raceway in a car that looks like it is barely running, with fenders duct taped on and the headlight welded open because it was broken off in the wreck and then run 12's or less on the 1/4. And i think it would all be worth it just to see the look on the faces of those guys who spend thousands of dollars on how their car looks instead of how their car runs.

This is really how the snowmobiles are around here, some guy will come rolling in with an ultralight chassis from the early 90's but with a Rotax in the damn thing that has had the heads shaved, pistons sleeved, tuned pipes installed, reed valves installed, and sometimes even turboed and on rare ocasions a nice bottle of NOS. Its great to see the renters when this rolling hunk of junk high marks them with no troubles at all, and it is really the bassis for my whole concept.

~Sup