Home built race car. NMNA

http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/5255890852.html

MOTIVATED SELLER HAS AN EXTRODINARY OFFER ON SOME SPECTACULER REPLICA RACE CAR PROJECTS. BEST CASH IN HAND OFFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have for sale a nearly completed Porsche 917/10 Can Am car replica which was built for track day use but could be streetable. I also have a Formula One car replica for the street that is nearly complete. For the Formula one car I have the transmission and engine computers and harnesses installed and a wiring harness for the DOT accessories. It needs minor wiring details and paint completed. It has a 2004 Cadillac XLR engine and transaxle as well as the complete suspension.

The Can Am car has two Subaru Tribeca engines bolted together to make a 12 cylinder boxer to replicate the 917/10. An electrical harness needs to be created for the Can Am car. I have a complete OEM harness with transmission and engine computers. I'm asking for a Best Offer on these two cars and most of the tools I have. The third car, a Lemans coupe, has been sold to a builder in Switzerland. Below are some of my YouTube videos. The third video is a real 917 revving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W_0CG7kX7RA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bgHMvbItu_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FIoNRrI9hKA

Very interested what the collective wisdom of GRM thinks of this.

I think the builder posted over in the build threads section long ago.

Those have been showing up on Craigslist for a long time.

Well worth the $1.

I'd be interested in seeing how they siamesed the 2 engines. Looks like they are completely separate. In the real 917/10 Porsche did siamese 2 6 cylinder engines and stuff a massive turbo on it. The frame also looks relatively close. Brakes would all be 930 stuff.

Looks to be about 90% done...Which typically means it only has 90% more to go.

In the first video you can briefly see some kind of adapter bolted to the crank of the forward engine, where the flexplate or flywheel would have been, and presumably mounts to to the rear engine via the crank pulley interface. I wonder how readily it will handle transferring that power. Also the firing two cylinders at a time will result in a rather non-12-cylinder sounding engine...Probably much more like a glorified 6 cylinder, since that's what it effectively has for a firing interval.

Still, I have to give a lot of credit for the creativity. And it (they) certainly would make for an interesting project to finish and drive. Ultimately, I have a feeling it's not just 'best offer', but more of a best offer over an undisclosed minimum...One is left to wonder, what that minimum is.

I passed this one around the shop quickly, since the twin subie motors would be of interest. There are more videos the gent has made on his account. Looks like it's all wired, the issue is getting an ecu to make it all work. Our lead engineer suggested that the solution might be with a Pectel ECU setup as they have the ability to have two ecu's sync up. So you'd have an ecu for each engine, and they'd talk to each other. Not the cheapest solution, but I'm not sure how many options there are to make this work.

Cool stuff though.