DavidBarry

Roger, re:myth-busters. My memory tells me that back in I think the 1980s, there was a backwards race at Lime Rock every year for a while. It wasn't taken very seriously, nor meant to be -- except that one IMSA 935 driver, who raced very seriously at Daytona and elsewhere (and did well, though I can't call up his name), modified his street 928 at considerable effort to give him an unfair backwards-driving advantage in that race. he won it. I seriously doubt that cd. was a factor. There was some grumbling about him taking things farther than was intended for that race, but I don't recall that there were any rules except the one about racing backwards.

terry gt

Saw that car at the SEMA show in Vegas a couple of years ago . Total hack job , looked funny seeing the pipes coming out the front. It was early euro .

namasgt

If I remember correctly its a late 84 or a 85 Euro twin dizzy automatic. I say late 84 because it had S4 type seats in it, even the shifter is like the S4 type. I had a Popular Mechanics magazine about the project. What really got me was that they were complaining about how flimsy the dime sized sheet metal was when they cut the body off. The sheet metal is sure thicker than a dime...

Here is a link with pictures. They are calling it a 78 but it has later Euro interior and engine in it.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_353129-...-928-1978.html

GlenL

Looks like an L-jet to me. Has that fuel pressure regulator in the front. Or is that an accumulator?

namasgt

Here are more pictures.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...wards/?slide=4

On the engine side shot looks like a twin dizzy distributor to me, the intake tubes are fat too. If the car really is a 78, the owner put a lot of work into it to put the later Euro running gear in it.

namasgt

Here is a front engine shot,

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...s-porsche.html

GlenL

Yeah. You can see the twin dizzy there.

Gerald Finden

For those of you in the Cleveland, OH area, it's at the Great Lakes Science Center at the moment: http://www.mythbusterstheexhibition.com/

STRIKEMASTER

0-60 in 8 seconds and 14 flat for the "quaddah" is about right. My '83 Euro 5 sp. does that, no sweat. But remember, Euro's are set up to fly down the Autobahn at 150 mph. all day long. U.S buyers want a car that is fast as hell for 6 blocks and then runs out of *****, so only 1/4 mile time counts. I get " wattle it do in da quaddah" all the time. I tell 'em "3RD GEAR!" I might get blown off from the stoplight, but I come up next to 'em as 90 mph in 3rd, blow the horn, give 'em the finger, shift into 4th and disappear. "How fast will your rice-burner turn the quaddah in 3rd gear, Holmes?" Those jerks at Myth Busters are your typical San Fran feather-heads. P.S. I'll take what's left of the car off their hands if THEY pay ME $50K for it. I figure I could revert the car for about $50K. As it is, I'll give 'em $20.00 for it. They have to deliver it.