Mid-engine Third Gen?
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Indeed there is. its not a true WOT clip. But you can get a sense of the sound from that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/gearhead...25/sCMeiRFlNow
http://www.youtube.com/user/gearhead...25/sCMeiRFlNow
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don't know how I missed this thread for so long, but beautiful job on that bird. its not too often you see something so original done to these cars and done well!
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Wow! Someone figured out how to make 4thgens even uglier!
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An Olds Toronado or Caddy Eldorado would be good choices for transaxles. They would be more compact than the Vette system in the above picture.
1978 HotRod magazine did a story on a mid engine Olds 442. Information is available online. I still have the issue around here somewhere.
http://www.hotrodharrys.com/cars/sho...hp?articleID=3
http://www.hotrodharrys.com/cars/sho...hp?articleID=4
1978 HotRod magazine did a story on a mid engine Olds 442. Information is available online. I still have the issue around here somewhere.
http://www.hotrodharrys.com/cars/sho...hp?articleID=3
http://www.hotrodharrys.com/cars/sho...hp?articleID=4
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Penelope's car from Thunderbirds? Seriously AlkiIroc, you need to get out more, LOL! The Elf Tyrrell Grand Prix car had 4 front wheels too...
GM made a rear engined Camaro- it's called a Fiero. I would swap a small block or 3.4 into one of those before I would cut up a 3rd Gen. But if you have unlimited time and budget... I have a burnt out 1991 you can have cheap as a project car!
GM made a rear engined Camaro- it's called a Fiero. I would swap a small block or 3.4 into one of those before I would cut up a 3rd Gen. But if you have unlimited time and budget... I have a burnt out 1991 you can have cheap as a project car!
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Penelope's car from Thunderbirds? Seriously AlkiIroc, you need to get out more, LOL! The Elf Tyrrell Grand Prix car had 4 front wheels too...
GM made a rear engined Camaro- it's called a Fiero. I would swap a small block or 3.4 into one of those before I would cut up a 3rd Gen. But if you have unlimited time and budget... I have a burnt out 1991 you can have cheap as a project car!
GM made a rear engined Camaro- it's called a Fiero. I would swap a small block or 3.4 into one of those before I would cut up a 3rd Gen. But if you have unlimited time and budget... I have a burnt out 1991 you can have cheap as a project car!
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Re: Mid-engine Third Gen?
Easy to do if you have two or three years,thats an olds 425 engine,transaxil from 1967 Olds Toronado,the caddy setup will work also.I would buy a practice third gen from craigslist do not ruin your car, This way you can see if it can be made to fit and roll straight.buy a running caddy,pull the running gear,and all parts needed to run and stop.then all it takes is two or three skilled guys and a deep wallet and you will have a mid engine camaro.
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way to bring back an old post but i believed a mid engine is quite possible ive been thinking of it the last coupe days i thought it would be possible if you took the engine/trans out of a police impala 2000-2005 (215hp) and make up a frame to hold it after cutting apart the rear end out basicly. then wire it up. welding a sheet of steel in the old engine bay to make a trunk having the front slant down to the ground from the rad suppot so the air can escape. cooling would be 2 2in pipes goin down the tunnel the gas tank would either be in the front or behind the engine. electric cooling fans. take another sheet or 2 to make a fire wall and wheel wells. taking the stock exhaustmanifold adding a flex joint so when the engine moves from torque then running it to a muffler that goes across the back bottom of the car.taking a shifter from a shifter from an impala with a console so it will still be floor mounted. run a tube for intake down the tunnel put the air box in like the location of the charcoal canister.
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it could be done just not sure with out using the tube frame,there is a pic of one already posted.
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i just saw that but that could not have been cheap to build
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your going to need to shorten the front and extend the rear, my uncle and i are building a c4 based super car that is now mid engine, set up for an ls7 with a Porsche trans axle and 180 deg headers . the front got shortened 10 inches and lengthened 20 in the rear, with engine and driver the bias is 50 50
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i used to have a 500 caddy engine in a chevy pickup.the 1970 500 engine was factory rated at 400 bhp.if you use an edelbrock intake on the 500,it weighs less than 100 pounds more than a 350 chevy.id use a 500 and transaxle out of a early seventies eldelrado.
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