anyway, i had this crazy idea today.

i really loved my little pontiac fiero gt. if you don't know, they are similar in size and weight to a civic, but they are mid-engine rear wheel drive. they also have very few aftermarket parts (unless you count all the engine swap potential) and are rare as fizzle to find in decent shape anymore.

i NEVER truly got the rear wheels of that car to break free during straight line acceleration - and that's with 165 ft-lbs of LOW end torque. after the third time i got my 107 ft lbs at 5500 rpms to break free by accident today, i thought "how bad-*** would it be to have a mid-engine civic?". the high rev power of our cars would give sweet hook-ups and launches if the engine and drivetrain was in the back. add that to all the aftermarket options we already have, and that would be a damn nice car.

anyone ever seen/heard of anyone trying something like this? i know most people don't have the capacity for something like this in thier garage, but a proffesional with access to a full shop could knock something like this out and maybe make some serious cash doing it.

thoughts? discuss.

 

its been done once or twice. if i ever get a big enough garage to do projects in, im gonna start doing stuff like this. but that will probably be a few years. it would be sweet to be able to experiment with that kind of stuff.

 

its called an NSX. LOL, JK well........sort of



Ive seen it done to an ef hatch with a b16 in the back made to go drifting. Remeber that MTV thing several years ago "I wanna be a street racer", well the guy in there with the RHD LSVTEC teg and crazy crx did it.

 

It'd be loud man.

 

It's a lot easier to do with a Del Sol, since they're laid out pretty close to an MR2.

 

yeah, if you did it to a coupe you would have to have a giant monkey arm in order to reach in there and check your oil.

i read somewhere that there were AWD honda station wagons or something. if an MR setup proved too difficult, i guess AWD would be OK, assuming everything can be bolted up with a very little fabricating and welding.

 

nope.[&:] its possible, but not without a bunch of custom fab.