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failboat
failboat HalfDork
1/31/12 6:29 a.m.
mmosbey wrote: I feel like being out there a bit... * Slammed early Bronco

For an even worse idea, how about the unloved Bronco II?

Raze
Raze SuperDork
1/31/12 6:41 a.m.

Fiat 850 Coupe...

jrw1621
jrw1621 SuperDork
1/31/12 7:03 a.m.

Expanding on dune buggy but light and simple as possible. Sand Rail

MadScientistMatt
MadScientistMatt SuperDork
1/31/12 7:10 a.m.

A Sevenesque kit car - with the cylinder heads hanging out both sides of the bonnet.

Or one of those FWD Citroens that normally had a Maserati engine behind the front axle.

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 7:34 a.m.
Nitroracer wrote: Hang on... Doesn't subaru share a bolt pattern with the mazda rotary for their transmissions? That could be helpful.

I tried tracking this down once but without any success. Anyone know more about this?

njansenv
njansenv HalfDork
1/31/12 7:43 a.m.

While I was going to say 914/912, what about a Beetle? (the old one).

petegossett
petegossett GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/31/12 10:31 a.m.

In reply to njansenv:

Why not put it in the back of a New Beelte, it would solve all the world's problems at once, right???

93EXCivic
93EXCivic SuperDork
1/31/12 10:37 a.m.
EvanB wrote: I know!

I for some reason like this idea.

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/31/12 11:34 a.m.

/thread

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 11:42 a.m.

Is that a 411?

MG Bryan
MG Bryan Dork
1/31/12 11:45 a.m.

Unless I'm very off today, it's a Corvair.

EvanB
EvanB GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/31/12 11:46 a.m.
93EXCivic wrote:
EvanB wrote: I know!
I for some reason like this idea.

Probably because it is awesome.

Ojala
Ojala GRM+ Memberand Reader
1/31/12 12:42 p.m.
Nitroracer wrote: Hang on... Doesn't subaru share a bolt pattern with the mazda rotary for their transmissions? That could be helpful.

I tried tracking this down once but without any success. Anyone know more about this?

Just eyeballing the two they dont look close, though I havent tried to actually put the two together.

I vote dune buggy or vanagon.

Door #1

Door #2

ValuePack
ValuePack Dork
1/31/12 1:25 p.m.
93EXCivic wrote:
irish44j wrote: duh, put it in an MG or Spitfire...
I have no idea how you would fit that in a Spitfire.

Shove the flat six where the firewall and passenger compartment was, and drive from the boot?

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 1:36 p.m.

I'd love a dune buggy of some sort. Sadly there are no dunes around here. Just bad roads, autocross, Tarmac hillclimb events, and some ice racing.

The eg33 is all ready to go with a resurfaced flywheel and exedy stage 1 clutch. Would be nice to still be able to use these.

What about sticking it in the back of a small Japanese pickup?

icaneat50eggs
icaneat50eggs New Reader
1/31/12 1:45 p.m.

Wow, lot's of ideas. FIrst off, you can easily bolt it up to any vw or porsche transaxle via kennedy engineering kits, so your options are wide open.

I actually am in the middle of stuffing an ej20tt into the back of a fiat 850 spider (can't believe someone on here already mentioned that.) and I saw another person on here today post that they may be looking to get rid of an 850 as well, so you could look into that.

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 1:59 p.m.

Actually, there's an MGB in the family somewhere that is just sitting. It used to be my fathers. Anyone know the bay width on one?

icaneat50eggs
icaneat50eggs New Reader
1/31/12 2:12 p.m.

For the MGB, I don't know the width, but at one time I saw a book about shoving a sbc in them, and if I remember right it was a tight fit width wise, and the chevy is only like 20 inches wide, my ej20 is 30.

MG Bryan
MG Bryan Dork
1/31/12 2:24 p.m.
Taiden wrote: Actually, there's an MGB in the family somewhere that is just sitting. It used to be my fathers. Anyone know the bay width on one?

Down low, where you'd want the EG33, 'bout 19 inches.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon SuperDork
1/31/12 2:40 p.m.

Other than the 914, I got nothin' that wouldn't involve rocket surgery. Well, maybe a 911...

mndsm
mndsm SuperDork
1/31/12 2:44 p.m.
Taiden wrote: I'd love a dune buggy of some sort. Sadly there are no dunes around here. Just bad roads, autocross, Tarmac hillclimb events, and some ice racing. The eg33 is all ready to go with a resurfaced flywheel and exedy stage 1 clutch. Would be nice to still be able to use these. What about sticking it in the back of a small Japanese pickup?

Substitute small japanese pick up for small Japanese van (Think that awesome mitsu whatever it was that what's-his-face picked up). Renault Espace f1 on a challenge budget!

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon SuperDork
1/31/12 2:48 p.m.

Come to think of it, a Toyota minivan (the pre-Previa version) would be fun.

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 2:54 p.m.

Would be pretty hilarious with a canvas Pull back roof a la fiat 500

ValuePack
ValuePack Dork
1/31/12 5:53 p.m.

Link

Doesn't solve your interior stench debacle, but it's a stick, in New England, and downright cheap.

Taiden
Taiden SuperDork
1/31/12 6:03 p.m.

Are the fiat x1/9s set up like the 914s out back? longitudinal?

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