This episode we introduce Hunters 5 cylinder powered Carbon body Porsche 924 Project!
Hunter brought this 924 about one and a half years ago from a scrap metal yard right before it was going to get crushed. We went on a 8hr return roadie to go get it.
It lived at his flat for 8 months while he stripped it, built the carbon roof and collected parts. Then it took it to the workshop after we moved into the new sheds and had somewhere to put it.
Since then we have shaped the body conceptually, cut the old steel roof off, and gathered more parts like the motor and wheels.
We are now getting into the swing of the project and thought we should share it!
The engine is a B5254T3 2.5L 5 pot turbo which we got from a Volvo S40 T5 which was stripped in Hunters home garage. These engines also came in the Ford Focus ST/RS Mk2.
People have built these motors to produce over 1000hp on numerous occasions but we are aiming for eventually 600hp.
We are planning on sending this power to the rear wheels via a Corvette T56 Transaxle.
We are trying to build this car as light as possible with an eventual weight goal of 850kg. One of the main ways we are going to dump weight is by switching out every steel panel we possibly can with Carbon fibre.
Since we are building new panels, we also thought we could try improve the look by making subtle changes to body lines.
We hope to keep the car looking like a 924, but when its side by side with a standard car they will look totally different.
We are NOT building this as a race car. It will be a fully street legal Restomod built in the same fashion and incredible quality of those like AlphaHolics, Retropower, and those types of builders.
We think this is an epic never-been-done-before build and we invite you to follow along on the journey!
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Thanks for watching!
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Can’t wait to see the finish product. Best part is being able to follow the build from start to finish
Aha! I knew an Audi 5 cylinder was somehow initially involved. I would have wanted to keep it in the family too, but I can totally understand the switch to a Volvo. They seem like a reliable platform to start with – guys in the Gatebil and Berg Cup communities think very highly of them.
By the time you get the luxury road-spec leather and carpet and aircon and sound deadening squeezed in 850kgs will be hard to pull off I think, even in (basically) full carbon. But I'm more than happy to be proved wrong! Hope to see it all happen 😀
Awesome work
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Can't wait man!
Great job guys can't wait to see more
you guys are awesome. this is a beautiful well thought out car . l look forward to seeing the finished beast.
It's about time that someone changed the looks of this ugly car. Thanks guy's will definitely follow this build. Thanks for sharing