Entries in Engine Swap (8)

Monday
Sep122011

Back to Daddy

Blame it on me. I am a bad person. I abused my 1972 Pontiac "LeSupra" LeMans – I left it outside.

The reason for this inexcusable outrage is I was shilly-shallying how to proceed with this project. When I brought the Pontiac to Oliver "Style Deluxe" Kaps, our intention was to do some body modifications and to create a mind blowing paint job. But in the meantime we figured out that there was still too much technical work to be done. As it would be batsh*t to paint the car first and tear out the drivetrain afterwards, I said: "Er ... wait a moment, let me think ...". This moment took me far too long, which is obvious when you see the pictures above.

Another thing was that Michael Wolf, the Dr. Frankenstein behind this incredible engine swap monster, never finished his work. And it was also me, who is responsible for this. I wanted to drive that car, although I knew it was not finished. To cut a long story short: the car just returned home to West Coast Resto, so Michael Wolf can finish his masterpiece. Which was high time I did this.

Wednesday
May182011

Beautiful Beast

During our Chromjuwelen En Route video shoot last weekend — see sneak previews above — I had the opportunity to race my Nippon Pontiac for a few meters. Damn, that Poncho kicks *ss. Maybe this is due to the fact the "Kustom City family" worked a little on the setup of my 7M-GTE

At the moment the LeSupra waits to get customized at Style Deluxe Hamburg, but I must admit I start loving the Millenium Falcon "Piece of Junk" style ... 

 

Tuesday
Apr122011

Rusty, the most iconic BMW, is dead

Rusty, "The Godfather", which we presented several times before, is dead. Destroyed in a fire. We would like to offer our sincere condolences to Mike Brroughs. Visit stanceworks.com for more details.

Via Jalopnik and Lowered.eu

Tuesday
Sep282010

Rusty: "The Godfather"

As I mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Mike Burrough's BMW E28 "Rusty". Check out Mike's latest modifikations. If you dare.

Monday
May102010

Back from the Dead: Rusty

I just blogged about Mike Burrough's BMW E28. Mike released a video to pay his last respect to "Rusty" which deeply impressed me. A few moments after the article was published I received a comment which said that Rusty isn't dead. SHAME ON ME - I am uniformed! I should visit StanceWorks.com more often, DAMN!

But what blows me away isn't only that fact that Mike apparantly burried his car on pet sematary. It's more that it resurrects with a twin-turbo Toyota (Supra) 1JZ-GTE stuffed in its engine bay. Well, that makes me feel warm all over ...

Thursday
Apr292010

1974 Chevrolet Rotary Nova

What about swapping a Mazda rotary turbo 13b-re in a 1974 Chevy Nova? The idea sounds familiar to me ...

Via build-threads.com

Wednesday
Apr212010

Honda Chivic powered Subaru Impreza WRX

Hondaru? Subonda? Chivaru? Whatever.

Interesting low budget project: Yannick B. (Québec, Canada) melted together a crashed Subaru Impreza WRX and a Honda Chivic. "The final cost is 5300$ CAD including coffee and donuts."

Via honda-tech.com