#ChallengeTime CTzens: You are given a Geo Metro and a budget of 5000 US Dollars, your goal is to turn the Metro into a high speed Time Attack car! Rules Below.
Rules :
Engine Swaps are allowed.
Forced induction is allowed.
Aerodynamic Mods are allowed.
Car must be road legal in the USA.
The Geo Metro must be kept FWD.
The track is Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
(The 2016 Dodge Viper ACR holds the current production car lap record with 1:28.65.)
Comments
Swap motor for a hayabusa unit. Throw some super fat sticky tires, stiff springs, and racing compound pads, 1:50 no problem. I’ve actualy heard of people putting snowmobile engines in the back of these and winning chumpcar races with them.
Interesting, what would you do about the gearbox?
I’ve seen it with hayabusa engine in it
Yup, seen the swap done on a peugeot 106 on a hillclimb car and it was a monster, but that was converted to rear wheel drive with the engine right behind the driver and definitely more than 5000 spent for the chassis work alone xD.
big wing and cardboard bodykit and spent the 5k for DUB spinnerz.
Buy $5000 worth of stickers and slap ‘em on there, thats atleast a million hp
Swap in a 2.3 Turbo from a Mazdaspeed6, wider wheels and tires, coilovers, weightbreduction bro, and a chin spoiler.
Engine Swap for a 1.8T 20v from a TT (AMU engine code = 225 Bhp stock) = $1,500
Strip all the things = $0
Coilovers, lower ride height, front and rear seat bars = $1500
New wheels and tyres = $700
New exhaust, filter and remap = $1000
Racing stripes = $40
Time 1:48… just
Thank you
Let’s make a list and go to the junk yard. I don’t know US prices, but this is about what it cost here
Mazda RX-8 engine. 1.3l ~260bhp From a wrecked car. ~1000$
Wide wheels and road legal slick tires. R14 215/40 ~600$ (good to have small wheels)
Battery to the back 15$ (for the wire)
Strip the interior. - 0$
Tick oil improves compression - 60$
Coil overs and sway bars ~1200$
Well designed wing and front spliter ~200$
new exhaust. ~200$
Polyuretane bushings ~200$
Rent Randy Pobst to drive it (priceless)
Brilliant!
A rotary Geo Metro!
Hemi swap😄
GM ecotec supercharged swap out of a cobalt. With the boost turned up you’re looking at 400bhp. Wider front tyres with slicks all round, chopped springs for a lower centre of gravity and a front splitter. Now the hackery. Take off the bonnet, smash out the window glass, chuck out the rear seats and passenger seat. Remove interior trim and the spare wheel. Bam.
Racing suspension parts - $800
Race tires and aluminum rims - $2000
Completely interior stripped
Rotors, pads, and fluid - $1000
Nitrous - all the money I have left over