I love sleepers :)
 

My head was saying:
"I'll just overtake this Corsa B then head to my Nans house for a cuppa"

What happened was:
"Have I got past this bleeding Corsa yet?" :freak3:

Christ on a bike this thing really shifted! I really love being surprised like that, the guy obviously left it looking VERY standard from the back, even had some rubbish dealership sticker in the back window :lol1:
Don't get me wrong, I did manage to get past but only just. And that's with a 350/330 Type R!

Anybody know some good sleepers? I know a guy who's got a mk1 Fiesta with 2lt zetec on throttle bodies :cool:

*Please don't turn this into a "Imprezas aren't brilliant with rolling starts" thread - I think we've seen enough of those :cry:

Paul.

Best one I've seen is the rusty royal nail escort van.

http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/car-talk/406400-mk4-escort-royal-nail.html

There's a old vauxhall Astra van on pistonheads at the mo with a gsi lump pushing out 300+ brake, yours for £3k.

theres a lad around here with a rusty old crx.....................running 350bhp turbo power,the thing is mental

looks **** tho and will probably kill him in the corners

My last car was a BMW e36 compact, was a sleeper, m3 alloys only visable mods (for traction).I fitted an e36 3.0 m3 engine and a e30 diff. Was an animal but stripped a set of tyres in a matter of days. Should have kept it. My mate has a nova with a 2.5 v6 engine, again looks nothing apart from the front slam panel missing so the engine can fit, his brother in law has a pug 205 with 406 turbo engine. All 3 of these cars maybe cost less than £1500 each to build, fun to drive, Parts are easy to come across.

I turned a totally standard 1.0 12v corsa into a 2.5v6 a few months ago for a laugh, I did intend to use it for a bit when it was finished but after test driving it and experiencing the way it handled with the big lump in the front and no pas I quickly sold it. It was quite interesting once you got it moving 2nd and 3rd was a hoot!

Mick

I had a corsa/ nova accelerate from me quick when I was just about to overtake him after leaving a 20mph zone and hitting a 50mph. He was off like a shot as he was obviously planning it and I was in 4th gear with my missus in the car so not really wanting to play his game. I was just laughing as I thought it was funny.

I came across a Rover Metro a few years back in my Hawk PPP on the M6 between Crewe and Stoke. It was very fast indeed - there was a thread started up a while ago about an amusing advert on fleabay.

My uncle once had a Lancia Thema 8.32, it was fitted with a Ferrari tuned engine and then some aftermarket things, that was a very quick car indeed and looked no different to a run of the mill saloon.

A friend of mine had a mk1 Nissan micra with a pulsar engine was very interesting lol

i have a corsa b with a 3000cc engine will do 1/4 mile in 11.2 and its for sale £3000

My mates got an mx5 with a Cossie motor squeezed in. Its only stage 1 so running about 270hp, but in a light mx5 its pretty quick! Hes selling it tho so he can finish his turbo v8 fc project....

Friend of mine is in the process of building a fiesta with a 2.0 zetec turbo lump going in it with around 250bhp, I just sold my fiesta RS1800, that always used to surprise people a little old fiesta with 130bhp, nothing compared to my impreza now but always used to put a smile on my face

I love a sleeper , fair play to them , bet they have a right chuckle on most journeys , my van surprises a few though its a standard looking vivaro sportive running 170hp diesel power ;-)

I once owned, in the mid 90's, a 300bhp 4x4 Cosworth powered Opel Manta. Standard(ish) looking and would leave most things for dead. Although I did get my ass handed to me by a Turbo'd Nova :lol1:

I love the idea of sleepers (or a wolf in sheep's clothing). Why attract attention to yourself with cosmetic adornments when (properly fettled) a squeeze on the accelerator will bring a smile to your face and astonish the herbert behind you? :)

Had to go look for other sleepers while on youtube, check out this ice cream van :D

My Honda Aerodeck. :thumb:

Trouble is, when the novelty of accelerating away from the odd unsuspecting performance car driver wears off... You're left looking like a tool driving around in a 1.0L Corsa.

I started collecting bits to do a mk3 escort sleeper but after a while just thought wtf am I doing. You'd have to drive round all day to find something to show off to!

A friend owns a Mk1 fiesta with a 240bhp RS turbo engine. Goes pretty well, when it gets traction :-)

Another Sleeper Here....
 

This!

Mate of mines got a mk1 golf running a remapped audi S3 engine an running gear, the engines mapped to 270bhp but power to weight is unbelievable. At the mo for fun hes bought a shed lookin seat arosa, hes keepin it like that lookswise but puttin a mapped 20vt motor out of a mk4 golf, when in the mk4 it was runnin 212/290, should wipe the smile of a few faces at the lights :thumb:

[QUOTE=thenewgalaxy;11051288]I came across a Rover Metro a few years back in my Hawk PPP on the M6 between Crewe and Stoke. It was very fast indeed - there was a thread started up a while ago about an amusing advert on fleabay.

Was it red m-reg?

Way back in my Uni days around the Telford area I remember running into what turned out to be a future Max Power cover car.
At the time it was subtly modded yellow Ford Ka...
I made the mistake of revving my stock AXGT engine when next to it at the lights like a knob.... at which point i was introduced to the 450bhp + NOS Cossie power it had. It later had a Puma facelift iirc which was a shame.

Gotta love sleepers. :thumb:

For anyone who wants a cheap sleeper...:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/sleeper-4f...item4d0b64c2bd

I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist I'm afraid.

My last Opel Manta looked like a cooking 1.8S but made, if I recall correctly, around 185bhp at the crank, so I suppose that might qualify as a sleeper of sorts.

theres a few round my way....
Corsa C, running a 400bhp astra VXR lump, looks standard bar being lowered and has bright yellow alloys lol
Classic mini, looks standard untill you look inside and see its stripepd, caged, and has a hyabussa turbo sat on the rear wheels... (windows are tinted so cant see untill you look in there properly...)
mk5 fiesta zetec s, with a 420bhp mk1 focus rs engine in it...
old square shape ibiza running over 400 bhp
pulsar gtir (not much of a sleeper) untill you hear its running 550+bhp - did the quickest 0-60 at trax last year in the wet, still managed like 2.6 seconds lol
then another which im not sure if youd call it a sleeper, but its a focus ST, looks standard except a big Jamsport sticker down the side, but thats running 500+ bhp....

Ooo also, theres a guy on passionford, im sure he put a koninseigg (or whoever you spell it) engine into an old granada lol

This one, now running a simple 1300bhp :thumb:

http://passionford.com/forum/restora...r-granada.html

^^^^^^^^

bonkers!!!! but what a build

I had an MG ZR with a 2.0 turbo engine that made 281bhp. It was a total handful as I ran it with a Rover 200 diesel gearbox with an open diff. Completely useless in the wet but could keep up with almost anything in the dry.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ps85aea0ce.jpg

Was all great fun till this happened...............

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...2/DSC00224.jpg

I have one in the making...

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps5f48401e.jpg

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps027f63e6.jpg