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| fat73 |
 May 23 2008, 07:18 PM
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W9R1  Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 7-May 05 From: tampa,fl Member No.: 4,043 Region Association: South East States  |
On a different forum....but really cool.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?&id=3848040 Ed aka W9R1 |
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May 23 2008, 07:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,169 Joined: 18-March 05 From: Orange County, California Member No.: 3,782 |
That's a beautifully built machine Wow
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| Allan |
May 23 2008, 08:40 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
Maybe I'm a lunatic but, isn't it weird to go from a 750hp motor that works, to a 1.8 turbo?
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| RJMII |
May 23 2008, 08:48 PM
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Jim McIntosh Group: Members Posts: 3,125 Joined: 11-September 07 From: Sandy, Utah Member No.: 8,112 Region Association: None |
He bought it as a roller; i'm guessing that means "no engine"? P.O. must not have sold the 750hp engine to him with the car?
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| rhodyguy |
May 23 2008, 09:57 PM
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. Group: Members Posts: 22,092 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
was that car for sale in the classifieds last year? 06'?
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| LarryR |
May 23 2008, 10:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 929 Joined: 15-March 07 From: E. Bay Area, N. California Member No.: 7,604 |
I saw that car run on ebay a couple of times ... I was drooling but it got to like 26 or 27K with the engine reserve not met.
maybe they yanked the engine and got almost as much for the chasis???? At any rate it would make a sweet race car. With it built to that extent they should have left in the 750 hp IMO. |
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| LvSteveH |
May 23 2008, 11:38 PM
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I put the Poor in Porsche Group: Members Posts: 1,080 Joined: 22-April 03 From: Las Vegas, Nevada Member No.: 600 |
It was for sale for quite a while and I would guess it could have been bought for about $40k towards the end prior to being parted out.
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| byndbad914 |
May 24 2008, 04:15 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(RJMII @ May 23 2008, 06:48 PM)  He bought it as a roller; i'm guessing that means "no engine"? P.O. must not have sold the 750hp engine to him with the car? says sold as a roller meaning no engine NOR trans. He mentions in the posts he will be running the 1.8 with an Audi trans too, not the Pantera trans. I would also assume any dry sump oiling system and plumbing would also be missing and sold with the engine and so forth, maybe the cooling system too. He did mention it still had the brakes tho' I don't recall what it had. My 930 Turbo brakes ran me close to $3K by the time I went from finding/buying NOS calipers and actually driving the car and many other brake conversions are similar or less money. He bought the roller for $20K which is reasonable for a tub and tube. For what I have in my full tube chassis with 5-link rear suspension if I got $25K for my roller it would be reasonable/good buy so $20K for a trailing arm tub and tube is about right for used stuff. He would definitely have more in a tub and tube starting from scratch, but not much more IMO if he knows the right places to go (which is always the kicker - so he probably got a great deal for himself). IIRC he ripped a suspension ear out of the car at the track once too - I refused to use any original susp points from the stock tub for this reason... get enough power into the car and you will rip stuff up and crack the front strut mounts with stiff coil-overs as well. Hence I wouldn't want that much power with any stock tub left but to each his own. We both have Sheridan body work tho' he has wide body rears (that I don't like with the narrow front but that is opinion of course), but assume similar $. The Pantera boxes are still worth around $5K I think and the engine he had would be worth a chunk (used engines it is always hard to tell how much and I have no idea what the internals were) but I agree with Steve he may have taken $40K for it all. I would want $50K for mine and have much more than that in it. It'll make an interesting project for the guy nonetheless. |
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