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JasonO · Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 124 Location: New Zealand

Maybe been posted before....I thinks this is way cool personally.. showed up on facebook

http://luftwerks.blogspot.de/

joemac · Joined: 22 Apr 2013 Posts: 44 Location: SE Pa.

Reminds me of the VW Rabbit (Golf) that someone stuffed an air-cooled Bus engine into the rear of.
I think it's done just for the sake of doing it.
It's different.

I can't imagine that thing isn't very tail-happy.

If I were going to all that effort, I'd put a 3.3 Litre 911 power plant in there.
Might as well give it some oomph.
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nickthompson · Joined: 26 Mar 2013 Posts: 873 Location: Central Georgia

If you are going through that much trouble wouldn't mid engine be better?

snakoil · Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 362 Location: Montreal, Canada

if he wanted to go mid engined he would have needed to find a transmission that fits between the engine and the rear wheels.
With the size of our back seat I doubt there is enough room to place a longetudinal engine as well as a longetudinal tranny.
He would have had to go with a transver engine with a FWD type tranny and reverse the gears in the tranny.
This is exactly what they did with the MR2 back in the '80.
They took a corolla 4AGE engine and simply put it behing the driver section.

Doing this I guess would have made him a porsche "sacrilege" and he would have got much more hate than love when going to shows compared to now.

I like the work althoough I don't see the point of taking a perfect 50/50 weight ditribution and screwing it up that much. Obviously by the cleanliness of the car this is a show car and not a track enthusiast.
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nickthompson · Joined: 26 Mar 2013 Posts: 873 Location: Central Georgia

The boxster/cayman is mid engine and not longetudinal. As are several other cars. The backseat area Iis more roomy than the engine bay so space is not the challenge. Building a frame structure for an engine in that area would be more of a challenge. Maybe drop a drive train from a pantera

txjake · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 395 Location: Oklahoma City OK

strange shifter.......

and, a lot of work to do this. well, lots of the car was Superbeeetle...

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MikesCoupeGT · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 474 Location: Ontario Canada

Honestly,

If i were to do something like that, why stop at 1 motor. Go Two, like the SHOgun. But it would need to be two 931 motors.
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CorsePerVita · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 1992 Location: Redmond, Oregon

Now that is cool.
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9095 Location: Romania

briliant ! i love it !
i want a ride in that thing.
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Fifty50Plus · Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:05 am Post subject:

I ought to sell him my avatar engine

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txjake · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 395 Location: Oklahoma City OK

saw some pancake V Dub engines in Fiat 850s back in the 70s-80s, mostly drag cars....pretty cool.
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brealytrent · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Goldsboro, NC

That thing's gotta be loud as shit inside. See, now if I were to do this, I would try and do it to a standard that I think could be considered factory quality. I would try and create some kind of cover for the engine to isolate it, and lay a bunch of sound deadening under the carpet surrounding it. Also, I would have the engine get it's air from outside the car, through some sort of air inlets. I know the prototype 924 had some little black slits on each side underneath the hatch, perhaps something similar to that? Anyways, then I would try and make the front 'trunk' waterproof so it could be usable for holding things like luggage. All in all I like the idea, but it needs some polishing.

And why not a flat-six? :p
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JasonO · Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 124 Location: New Zealand

Perhaps the build was intended to show what a 924 could/should have been....a small more traditional replacement for the 914 and or the 912....to me it make sense and if this showed up in the late 70's as a factory prototype I'd like to think people would not be overly surprised.Just my 2cents.

ditch68 · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 126 Location: Tucson, Az

rusty69911 · Joined: 08 May 2013 Posts: 11 Location: Australia

this car prompted me to join this forum and research 924's a bit more,
so simple and clean,
a 924 might be the perfect home for my spare flat 6 sitting in the shed,
I have messaged the guy who built it on facebook,
kool dude and willing to answer any question about the build,
it could have been much wilder but the theme was to build something out of what they had lying around or were given
and a very cheap licsensed 924,
shows what you can do for little money just a bunch of time,
cheers Russ...