In short. Yes.
This thing turned out to be the scariest, most offensive, angriest thing ive ever driven. it was fucking brilliant.
Im pretty sure it hated everything. if it could talk, it wouldnt. it would just spit in your face.
It kinda started off as a innocent, whimsical purchase. i kinda woke up one day and decided i wanted a caddy while i was taking a shit. you know... one of those deep and meaningful ones.
a shout round to some people secured one with tax and mot. the genius being it was already converted to petrol, a 1.8 with a 4 speeder.... oddly nippy.
There was no getting away from the fact it was probably quite shit.
but fuck it, it was an itch that needed scratching....
Richard oldskool of volkswagen caddy modification fame was enlisted to flip the rear axle while i searched for the largest lowering blocks i could get.
with weitec coils up front and some beetle shocks, it was suitably low.
which is how it stayed for a while, bar messing with the bumpers... i decided the us rabbit bumpers wasnt the look i was after and went back to the stock one.
it seems there is only so many burnouts you can do, smashing off the rev limiter that you can do before an engine spews its guts out of the distributor.
which is where it got a little out of hand.
The last journey that engine did was to bring a G60 motor back to swap in. i didnt really know what was involved. but is there anything more unsociable than a g60 at full tilt?
it was a decent engine, but the charger was an unknown quantity.
the engine went in and got wired up no probs with a little help from a few friends. we were carefull to up the hate ante by selecting the largest intercooler we could, adding nitrous and lastly hanging a gutter oil cooler out the front.
and on the 1st journey to inters, it exploaded spectacularily. we got there, and got the charger swapped out thanks to a mystery parts supplier.
We slept in this thing, moved house, did alot of burn outs and hit lots of limiters in 5th gear.
'was a ripper my mush!
one day i will build another, more stupid.....
Without a roof.
This thing turned out to be the scariest, most offensive, angriest thing ive ever driven. it was fucking brilliant.
Im pretty sure it hated everything. if it could talk, it wouldnt. it would just spit in your face.
It kinda started off as a innocent, whimsical purchase. i kinda woke up one day and decided i wanted a caddy while i was taking a shit. you know... one of those deep and meaningful ones.
a shout round to some people secured one with tax and mot. the genius being it was already converted to petrol, a 1.8 with a 4 speeder.... oddly nippy.
There was no getting away from the fact it was probably quite shit.
but fuck it, it was an itch that needed scratching....
Richard oldskool of volkswagen caddy modification fame was enlisted to flip the rear axle while i searched for the largest lowering blocks i could get.
with weitec coils up front and some beetle shocks, it was suitably low.
which is how it stayed for a while, bar messing with the bumpers... i decided the us rabbit bumpers wasnt the look i was after and went back to the stock one.
it seems there is only so many burnouts you can do, smashing off the rev limiter that you can do before an engine spews its guts out of the distributor.
which is where it got a little out of hand.
The last journey that engine did was to bring a G60 motor back to swap in. i didnt really know what was involved. but is there anything more unsociable than a g60 at full tilt?
it was a decent engine, but the charger was an unknown quantity.
the engine went in and got wired up no probs with a little help from a few friends. we were carefull to up the hate ante by selecting the largest intercooler we could, adding nitrous and lastly hanging a gutter oil cooler out the front.
and on the 1st journey to inters, it exploaded spectacularily. we got there, and got the charger swapped out thanks to a mystery parts supplier.
We slept in this thing, moved house, did alot of burn outs and hit lots of limiters in 5th gear.
'was a ripper my mush!
one day i will build another, more stupid.....
Without a roof.
on September 29, 2009, 7:40 pm
none of the bolts where tight