volvo based kit cars?

[Diesel64]

Ok, so I was looking at building a VTEC mini, but now my latest pipe dream is to build a kit car - I'm doing a bit of research and looking at everything from Lotus 7 styles/locosts, AC cobra replicas to 1930's tourers. All tend to be based on Ford Sierra, BMW 3 series or Jag donors.

Anyone know of kits that use Volvo's as the donor car? I'd be especially interested in anything that uses a 850 T5.

Just fact finding at the mo, but just imagine that T5 grunt in something like this..
http://www.javelinsportscars.co.uk/images/pix_cabrio/hunt_red_out_med.jpg

...mmmmmmm!!!!

:)

[t5 stealth]

a mate of mine has a old classic mini with a v-tec honda lump in it,
seriously quick car but does nothin for me cos i cant stand minis lol,
he also has a moggy minor with a twin turbo 3.9 v8 rover lump in it...
it won c&cc comp a few years back.....that goes very well too but its a moggy lol..............
the only kit car worth having is a caterham....better built..
kit cars are always so crap generally,they take a reasonable car & make it worse but some kits make a crap car even worse lol....
atleast a caterham is purpose built & is a useable car & even more fun for a track day...
that javlin is the same as the marlin.........marlin was based on a cortina.....the cortina is much better..a customer at work has one of those,boy is it bad.

[dannt5]

whilst i was at the autosport show last month there was a company doing mini's with motorbike engines in the rear,but they also offered a volvo t5 engined vairiant...think it was 5 or 6 thousand,sadly i cant tel you any more than that.

[Diesel64]

Cheers for the replies. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'll be straight on to Caterham for a Superlite 500 kit (drool), totally agree that it's one of the top kits out there. I'm also with you when you say VTEC mini's are quick (that was why I was first drawn to them) but there are the practical issues to consider, plus the cost of custom subframes, engine etc...

Like I say, it's just pipe dreaming at the mo. I don't really have the space, money or time to go for it anytime soon, but one day, one day...

ZCars do a chain driven hyabusa or R1 engined mini. VERY quick, but the noise would just be unbearable to live with on a day to day basis. That said, I'm liking the sequential gear shiftyness :)

I guess its a curse - where else will I find something that has the power, comfort and understated good looks? Owning a T5 has ruined me for other cars! lol! :)

[yorkshire R]

i think powernut off the site put a rica t5 engine in a old beetle

[t5 stealth]

ZCars do a chain driven hyabusa or R1 engined mini. VERY quick, but the noise would just be unbearable to live with on a day to day basis. That said, I'm liking the sequential gear shiftyness :)

what about the caterham with the bike engine.....dddaaaaaammmmm quick

[Diesel64]

I've seen powernuts' T5 beetle on youtube...sweet as! I especially love the single exhaust out the centre....

Motorbike engine in a Caterham? Why not go the whole hog and make it twin R1 engined like a radical? tee hee hee!

[yorkshire R]

i dont think he has been on for a while, i bet he could go on roverheap challange..whoops scrapheap challange by himself and win!!

[t5 stealth]

where i work we used to build caterhams & race them,
my boss started it all off buildin a caterham with the bike engine then sold the rites to caterham who now sell them ...........
we still work on them occassionally lol

[Diesel64]

where i work we used to build caterhams & race them,
my boss started it all off buildin a caterham with the bike engine then sold the rites to caterham who now sell them ...........
we still work on them occassionally lol

I want your job!!!!

Beats testing filters lol! :)

[Agtrak100]

How about puting 850T5 with T19 turbo in the Lancia Stratos rep kit car now that would be class and ...kin' quick as well

[Tomcat]

Lancia Stratos.....Mmmmmmmmmmmm

[Diesel64]

A mate of mine was (maybe still is?) getting rid of a Lancia Delta he was going to use as a rally car before they changed the rules. Would have had it myself, but I need something thats useable as a daily driver and I don't think my lass would have gone for the lack of carpets and probably would have kept setting the fire extinguisher system off (big red button on the dash) lol...

[t5 stealth]

and probably would have kept setting the fire extinguisher system off (big red button on the dash) lol...

pmsl.............we got a genuine integralia that comes to our place ...
iv taken it out a couple of times as i dont mind the left hand drive lol

[dannt5]

Im putin one in the back of a pickup,have a look at my profile gallery,may give you some ideas

[exfuzzyt5]

Yeah have a look at my blog - not a kit car but might as well be

850 T5 in a 1973 Triumph GT6

http://www.triumphgt6.blogspot.com/

[1996 850 T5]

ive always had a panging to put a Honda s2000 lump in a truimph gt6