Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Jay w]

we were driving home tonight and spotted an Evo that had been modded to within an inch of its life  

This left me thinking what would make a really good sleeper, i.e. something that looks completely bog standard from the outside to the untrained eye but under the bonnet yields some real power.

Omegatoy once had a 2.0GLS that had lotus carlton running gear, now that's a proper sleeper......

if you could do a sleeper what would it be

[Bandit127]

MV6 is a good start, especially with the Vx grille. Part of the attraction for me.

I think they used to be called Q cars.

Volvo and Saab usually have one tucked away in the range somewhere.

[Vamps]

Cortina Savage, pref Mk1 but looking stock, may be with 5 1/2 J steels with chrome hub caps.

Often fancied doing something with an early Mini, now today that would upset the chav's

[Vamps]

MV6 is a good start, especially with the Vx grille. Part of the attraction for me.

I think they used to be called Q cars.

Volvo and Saab usually have one tucked away in the range somewhere.

In my mind these were motorway patrol cars without the stripe or blue light on the roof, commonplace now but not 20 odd years ago.

[Bandit127]

Cortina Savage, pref Mk1 but looking stock, may be with 5 1/2 J steels with chrome hub caps.

Often fancied doing something with an early Mini, now today that would upset the chav's

There's a mini in work's car park with a Civic Type R engine in it. But it ain't a Q Car. More like FQ...  

[Vamps]

Cortina Savage, pref Mk1 but looking stock, may be with 5 1/2 J steels with chrome hub caps.

Often fancied doing something with an early Mini, now today that would upset the chav's

There's a mini in work's car park with a Civic Type R engine in it. But it ain't a Q Car. More like FQ...  

Bet that's quick......

[Kevin Wood]

I remember seeing a Moggie minor with a Fiat Twin Cam and have always had something of a hankering I must admit.

Turd brown / beige / baby sick green Mk.2 Escort, standard from the outside, BDA under the bonnet?

I quite like this, I must admit: http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2007/07/some-more-pics-from-sweden.html

 

That V6 looks vaguely familiar...

Then there's this one: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3459868

That video is just mad.

Kevin

[Mr Skrunts]

MV6 is a good start, especially with the Vx grille. Part of the attraction for me.

I think they used to be called Q cars.

Volvo and Saab usually have one tucked away in the range somewhere.

In my mind these were motorway patrol cars without the stripe or blue light on the roof, commonplace now but not 20 odd years ago.

I have a speed and power mag in my hall way with the KAD Conversion in it, I believe they were twin cam heads and modified to up to 160BHP.

These days they do them the the Hayabusa conversion.

[Vamps]

MV6 is a good start, especially with the Vx grille. Part of the attraction for me.

I think they used to be called Q cars.

Volvo and Saab usually have one tucked away in the range somewhere.

In my mind these were motorway patrol cars without the stripe or blue light on the roof, commonplace now but not 20 odd years ago.

I have a speed and power mag in my hall way with the KAD Conversion in it, I believe they were twin cam heads and modified to up to 160BHP.

These days they do them the the Hayabusa conversion.

Or sneaking up behind a new avatar, like it by the way.....

[Mr Skrunts]

My sleeper was my yank, big and brown, box shaped a bit like the old Zepher.

Ate 911 Turbo's for breakfast (if the rear wheels managed to get traction)  and coz it was on Pirelli P6 60 Profiles it went round bends like it was on rails.

Ahhhh the good old days

[Mr Skrunts]

MV6 is a good start, especially with the Vx grille. Part of the attraction for me.

I think they used to be called Q cars.

Volvo and Saab usually have one tucked away in the range somewhere.

In my mind these were motorway patrol cars without the stripe or blue light on the roof, commonplace now but not 20 odd years ago.

I have a speed and power mag in my hall way with the KAD Conversion in it, I believe they were twin cam heads and modified to up to 160BHP.

These days they do them the the Hayabusa conversion.

Or sneaking up behind a new avatar, like it by the way.....

Got to keep with the changes.

[HNO3GOH]

A very long time ago in my Mk2 cavalier SRI on WSM front i was driving on the beach quite fast when a car went past me as if i was stood still. I later that night found the car and as you do went and asked what the hell he had in it. Now first of all the car was not so much a car but a pig of the plastic kind with just the one wheel at the front and the bit that made this go so well was in the back and that was a very well tuned rover V8. It looked completely standard apart from two large exhaust pipes and two wide wheels on the back. Don't want to race him again

[Jimbob]

A very long time ago in my Mk2 cavalier SRI on WSM front i was driving on the beach quite fast when a car went past me as if i was stood still. I later that night found the car and as you do went and asked what the hell he had in it. Now first of all the car was not so much a car but a pig of the plastic kind with just the one wheel at the front and the bit that made this go so well was in the back and that was a very well tuned rover V8. It looked completely standard apart from two large exhaust pipes and two wide wheels on the back. Don't want to race him again

I had a friend with a 'steath pig' very big engine, load of weight in the boot iirc, and painted dulux matt black by hand!  suprised many many people.

He also had a v6 milkfloat, complete with fake painted milk bottles at one point  

[jimmas]

I had a savage many years back, really quick in it's day, loved it to bits wished I had kept it now, but things move on as they say.

[DaveyDavey]

Cortina Savage, pref Mk1 but looking stock, may be with 5 1/2 J steels with chrome hub caps.

Often fancied doing something with an early Mini, now today that would upset the chav's

I used to have a fairly modded mini about 15 years ago. It was about 12 years old at the time and started out as a fairly bog standard 1 litre. By the time I had finished it had disc brakes up front, a 1275 metro engine bored out to 1340cc with a race cam (sounded like a tractor at tickover but higher revs were amazing) Uprated suspension with a touch of negative camber and some fat little 10 inch wheels on there.

Nothing used to beat the gaping astonishment on the face of the boy racers in their chaved up Novas and Cavaliers when they were left for dead at the lights.   Happy days