Ok, I'm a HUGE fan of modified street cars. It shows what you can do fabrication-wise, or it can show how much money you have to burn. I tend to lean more on the fabrication side, because I'm a broke college student, but that's another story.
I saw the beginning of this build about a year or two ago and nearly spit out whatever I was drinking. I hadn't checked back on the progress, and forgot about, until I read a post on Jalopnik about it today. I thought to myself, "I've seen this before!". They didn't write much about it, but they posted a bunch of Youtube clips of it.
Here's the run-down. A couple of Croatian friends got together and turned their VW Lupo into a monster. For those of you who don't know, the VW Lupo is a small car sold in Europe and South America that is smaller than the Golf.
What these guys did was rip out the puny 1.4?Liter motor, and swapped in the VW Jetta's VR6 motor. The VR6 is a narrow angled V-6 that is compact and coupled to a front wheel drive transmission. They cranked it up to eleven by putting another VR6 motor in the rear. This insane combination gives them an all drive twin motor Lupo witha stripped out, and roll caged interior.
That, my friend, is impressive. Fast too!
When it comes to this sort of thing, there are no instructions. All there is, is some creativity, balls, and mad fabrication skills. That is why I love modifying cars so much. How far are you willing to push the limits? What makes it different?
Sometimes, even Frankenstein can be beautiful.
You can see the article by Jalopnik here: http://jalopnik.com/tag/twin-vr6-awd-vw-lupo/?id=5156754&autoplay=true
Tight. Im not that into hooking cars up but my friends are so every so often im trapped in a convo about cars. Im more of a rims and system kind of guy lol i share the same broke college student syndrome as you. One thing i do have to say though is i hate VW. I don't know why, but ever car they make to me is crap. That and the fact that i have never seen a VW with more that 120 k on it. I don't know but cool blog.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of high school when all my friends would modify their cars. Some still do. I never got into it, I've always driven SUVs, but from what my friends did, it looked real cool.
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