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HoTWire Administrator Posts: 26,965	Friday Fantasy Build? ... (£3k budget)HoTWire @admin
	Sept 4, 2015 12:16:02 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	It has been a while, but I always enjoyed these things. Rules are simple. You've got 3k to spend, assume you can weld/spanner to fix minor issues (within reason), resprays are £1k. Pick from Ebay, or any other source for cars and parts. Link your sources. Any auction that isn't finished you can take a reasonable stab at the final price of. 'Build' something awesome. (European shipping is 'free', anything outside of UK costs you £1k (which is a bit cheap I know, but it is for funs)). GO! I'll start with this : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-CLASSIC-1991-HONDA-PRELUDE-2-0I-16-AUTO-4WS-MOTD-ORIGINAL-/281788327220 £450 4x100 PCD so that means we are off to Deutschland for some wheels www.ebay.de/itm/4-Centra-Turbo-Alufelgen-211604-6J-14-Et-27-VW-Golf-Passat-Scirocco-Bmw-Audi-80-/321843585834 £250 (being a bit generous I think... but you never know they have 6 days to go) So far I've spent £700 .. lets say I need another £300 get everything spot on, some adjustable ride height, bits of clean up here and there. I've then got £2000 to spend on other things... but what? Engine swap!? Well the B20A was used in F3 cars and can be tuned.... but then a K20A from an Integra Type R is on ebay : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-K20a-Engine-Complete-Integra-Type-R-Jdm-86k-/271870452902?hash=item3f4cbde4a6 ... so 220bhp and £250 in change for things... It isn't a 'complete' project (no tyres for a start!), but 3k gets all the right bits in the general vicinity of the right places... the rest would seem to be a bit of hard work, and a bellhousing machining What you got
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penski Probably posted too much Posts: 10,429	Friday Fantasy Build? ... (£3k budget)penski @penski
	Sept 4, 2015 12:44:32 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	£500 daewoo leganza - www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201507115113278 £1200 work teledial splits - classifieds.wheel-whores.com/classifieds/ads/view/6697 The remainder on lows and polish. *n
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	Sept 4, 2015 12:56:20 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	This: (£650) + Turbo lump from one of these: (118bhp before any tuning, £250 at my local Volvo breaker. goes nicely into a 5 which ways <850kg) + these (£50) Then a grinder to the front springs, drop the torsion bar and call it a day. Result, something lower than low with an amazing p/w ratio and having not even spent a grand An extra few hundred quid would make it perfect. Plan above is basically the plan for the next one I buy


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HoTWire Administrator Posts: 26,965	Friday Fantasy Build? ... (£3k budget)HoTWire @admin
	Sept 4, 2015 15:01:17 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I appreciate any build where the wheels are double the value of the car you are putting them on! And @jxke I didn't realise that as an engine swap that would be relatively easy, makes sense though given the origin on the Volvo engine, I was talking to the design on the 480 a while ago, he said they had to make it FWD because Renault didn't have a RWD platform, or they would have had it as a RWD car... can you imagine how awesome that would have been :/
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ettorebugatti Posted a lot Posts: 3,417	Friday Fantasy Build? ... (£3k budget)ettorebugatti @ettorebugatti
	Sept 4, 2015 22:00:15 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Sept 4, 2015 15:01:17 GMT HoTWire said: I appreciate any build where the wheels are double the value of the car you are putting them on! And @jxke I didn't realise that as an engine swap that would be relatively easy, makes sense though given the origin on the Volvo engine, I was talking to the design on the 480 a while ago, he said they had to make it FWD because Renault didn't have a RWD platform, or they would have had it as a RWD car... can you imagine how awesome that would have been :/ Well, they did have the 300 series which was rwd and similair size. Although de Dion axle sound nice, the leaf springs looked a bit daft.
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