How Would You Build A Street Sleeper?

[bozodos]

Waaay back in the day there was a Daihatsu Mira getting around here, stock looking, white with a small bonnet scoop for a top mount cooler, sporting a turbo'd motor. It made 130fwkw, and had awesome power to weight ratio. Fittingly, the plates were GRNADE lol.

I'm quite a fan of the thought of a Volvo or Daihatsu hatch with some performance behind it, and well said about the Volvo driver assumption, anyone remember that epic fail Volvo ad campaign about 'bloody Volvo drivers'?

[Conrad 2NR]

C35 Laurel with a built NEO 25/30. No one will suspect.

[noisia]

jzx110 verossa, 2jzgte, no cannon muffler exposed, just 3 inch straight out the back, stocko wheels with spacers, but deep down she's all business, police wouldnt have a clue

[The_Paladin]

I think a good 50% of people on here miss the point of a sleeper. An Evo, chaser, R31 (nowadays) etc, isnt a sleeper. Anything imported Q45 etc is going to be assumed by anyone with half a brain about cars to have had something done to it, at the very least been driven by a car fan. Datsuns are modded a lot too, so no surprises there. Tureno? you're joking right?? has anyone ever pulled up next to one and thought it was just an old banger?

Volvo is a good start, and the 240/740's etc are fantastic. Volvo's are invisible to cops. I use to drive a 740 and once went past a cop with a gun doing 60kmph in a 40 zone and didnt get pulled over. It wasnt a busy road either. It you want to be different. Get a late model 850 AWD wagon and put 'R' goodies in it. The engines are designed to be turbo'd (or you could just get the R/T5 engine which already has one on it) and there's a lot of european aftermarket stuff out there for them.

if you want something that's straight speed, why not go completely left field? What about a Daewoo Lanos, Ford Festiva, Kia etc? I spose the drive train would need a hell of a lot of work to take any amount of stress but you have to admit, no one would see it coming.

[bozodos]

I dunno about where you live, but if someone had a stock looking Chaser/Aristo/q45/Laurel around here, nobody apart from maybe 5 or 6 people I know would know what it was!

[scathing]

Volvo with an 8 has been done before many times...heavy car.

A Volvo 240 is in the 1300kg range (which puts it in GTS-t territory, or older GT-R turf) and the engine bay will easily accomodate a boosted Holden 308.

Most of the people here have opted for drag sleds, but Tassie has some of the nicest corners in Australia. I'd consider a lighter corner carver that blows away bogans driving outside town. There's one thing to leave some Dunnydore driver eating your dust off the line, but there's something else to have that driver eating trees because they've fallen off a country road trying to keep up with you in the bends.

I'd contemplate something like a Mitsubishi Galant VR4. 2.5L twin turbo AWD, but because they're so uncommon chances are bogans won't know what it is. Unlike the Liberty RS Turbo (or B4 if you can afford it) it doesn't have a giant bonnet scoop to give the game away. Just paint the FMIC black.

Alternatively, something like an MX-5 with a 13B turbo conversion. Everyone assumes your hairdresser's car is slow, but it'll haul arse in a straight line and spank people through the bends.

[revolt]

1988 JE Holden Camira wagon. C20XE conversion (Manual Calibra engine), Calibra brakes, weight reduction (right on 1000kg with a small amount of fuel in it). Has 96fw kw at the moment N/A, but turbo conversion is in the works. I sold it to my brother last week... it's faster than my stock S2 Stagea.

[BOOSTA]

I have a small sleeper at the moment...

Its a 1996 Mitsubishi Lancer Ce Coupe with a Evo 5 or 6? engine and gearbox in it....

It has a small style lukey muffer at the rear (std style tip)

Front mount (Black painted) is small and it sits behind the std front bar easily..

It looks very standard and only has 15" rims...

Its a load of fun in the dry except for in the WET! then its scary and no fun at all..

The look you get from a v8 owner when you not only keep up with him but let him here the external gate going off as you start to pull away!

[R33_Dude]

Have been giving this some more thought (and I can't believe this thread is still going).

I was thinking a 1998 Lancer 4 door GLi (I hate them with a passion by the way) with the 1.8 litre 4G93 twin cam.

Then add on one of these babies: http://www.raptorsc.com.au/kits.php?id=24 for a nice 134 kW ATW add an intercooler for safety, or even a water to air intercooler off a subaru liberty so its kept under the bonnet.

Plus extractors and a quiet but free flowing exhaust system, should give a nice multiplyer on top of the supercharger.

According to the bumf the supercharger kit alone makes for a 13 second car.

That would be amusing.

[Basti]

^rice that bitch out and stick it to all those high and mighty skyline owners that ever laughed at a lancer

[libardi]

my mate has a 1jz inside a toyota crown, i dunno much about it. but it sure as hell is a sleeper.

or you could just a GTiR the look on people's face the next set of lights is always priceless

[cul202]

+1 for the Aristo

Rads

Twin turbs 2JZ luxo weapon

Styled by Italdesign Giugiaro but still looks non-descript as hell.

Heavy though

[The_Paladin]

my mate has a 1jz inside a toyota crown, i dunno much about it. but it sure as hell is a sleeper.

or you could just a GTiR the look on people's face the next set of lights is always priceless

A GTiR is not a sleeper.

I think people are missing the point with the idea of getting something that people dont know about (ie, Q45, Aristo, obscure imports etc) therefore they'll think its slow. Thats not the way to do it. You'll still attract cop attention, anyone who knows anything is going to see you coming a mile off. unless you're trying to trick mum's in Patrols etc. If they dont know what it is, then they will be open to expect anything. you'll stick out too much.

The key is, is to make a sleeper out of something people *think* they know about. Ie, people think Daihatsu's/Cameira (grreat suggestion!)/Volvo's are slow etc. thats where you'll get your surprise and safety from cops and would be thief's.

Also, surprised i didnt think of it. But a really good alternative to the V8 Volvo, is getting either a 960 or S90 which is the mid 90's large RWD sedan. Stock, its a 3l DOCH inline 6cyc . over-engineered like all volvos are to take a lot more than they handle. A lot of people in Sweden are putting twin turbo kits on it and are getting good results. Knowledge on how to etc, is all online and equipment available from Europe. its a common thing overseas but i've never heard of a modded one in australia getting about.

[R33_Dude]

^rice that bitch out and stick it to all those high and mighty skyline owners that ever laughed at a lancer

As I said I can't stand base model lancers.

But you could nearly go the anti-sleeper with this one. Because all lancers have crappy bodykits and stickers for performance kit they don't have if it had them people would assume it didn't so when it did it would be a sleeper. Kinda.

Or you could not.

[OLDSKOOLRX2]

This is a mates back in nz 4wd surf on a 2wd hilux chassis air bagged and body dropped if ya took the bug catcher off you wouldnt know. lol

[HtwCHACtkh]

Smart car + Hayabusa engine.

[bigslick]

Put one of these

into one of these

I used to have one with the 1.2L. Was a cool little car to drive. I used to describe the colour as mustard and rust.

As common as poo and the colour of poo. It's brown... it must be slow

[jase-r34]

Just buy a bike and laugh at people in their sleepers trying to blow everyone away at the lights

[Z1LLA]

It'd seem a bit silly to try and stuff a big motor into a Kei car though.

Datsun 1200 with CA18DET?

Personally I'd choose a 13B, maybe with a GT35/40, water injection to get away with not needing an intercooler, keep the standard wheels, a sunvisor and rear venitian for that old school look and a dummy exhaust tip to finish it off....

Heres one we prepared earlier:

The car has run 12.2 at 125mph in full street trim (including 175 wide 13-inch tyres) and has run 11.4/121mph on slicks (but still full exhaust/pump fuel etc)

[R33_Dude]

Just bought a R31 pintara station wagon.

Its dented to sh*ttery.

Flakey paint.

Grass stains are up around the doors where the grass was left to grow.

Engine has a blown head gasket but it drives.

1 year rego which is nice though.

Interior is complete and the whole driveline is surprisingly immaculate, no rust that I can see - plus its a one owner car.

$400!!!

Bargain.

The old 400 horsepower 351 stroker that used to belong in my Falcon will be getting a new home very shortly - or a SR20DET will fit in nicely, or a cheap RB25/30. Or I'll fix it and clean it up and make a profit