Send to a friendTrinks May 8th, 2008 5:43 PM Link
Maybe find a cheap used Rabbit with a blown engine? 
eBay Auction of the Day: 900 Horsepower Audi Five-Cylinder Engine
Written By: Seyth Miersma
While our eBay Motors tastes usually run more to the complete car style, occasionally we do find ourselves wandering the wide and wild aisles of the “Parts & Accessories” category.
There, amongst the second-hand short block Caterpillar diesel motors, and multiple hundreds of General Motors crate engines, we stumbled upon this perfectly ridiculous tuned Audi 20-valve, turbocharged, 2.3-liter, inline-five. In addition to a custom Borg Warner turbo and aluminum intercooler, the bored out powerplant can boast a fully balanced forged crankshaft, forged rods and bearings, and a fully ported and polished cylinder head. Those adds, in addition to a list of parts far too long to repeat here, will reportedly deliver the new owner with 900-plus German-engineered horsepower. Now, if we can just find a go-kart big enough to mount it in…
+ eBay Motors: AUDI S2 RS2 2.2 2.3L TURBO CONVERSION 900HP FULLY BUILT
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5 Comments
J. Hartmann May 8th, 2008 8:50 PM Link
That needs a Caterham.
DEM Sales May 8th, 2008 9:18 PM Link
GTI MK1 with that baby in it. Now that sounds like a car to me!
Dave May 9th, 2008 9:43 AM Link
I’ll just drop that into my ‘95 S6!
Splice May 12th, 2008 3:41 AM Link
I second “DEM Sales”. Find a used ‘n abused old MK1 Golf,
Strip it down, add carbon fibre and wide section wheels, slap this baby in, find a transmission strong enough to handle this kinda power and maybe quattro all-wheel drive.
Ha, now that will out-drag anything. ANYTHING !!!!! - and
be street-legal
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