Low-Budget Sleeper Cars

[themightytimmah]

Originally Posted by David Fermani

My vote is for a 5.0 with a large hidden shot of N0S. Stock cam ones can go 10'ohs all day long. You won't know what hit ya.

Happened to me once, on a bridge. I thought I had him beat until I saw the slicks on the back 2 tires .

[tom p.]

Originally Posted by Darkie

Tell me if i forgotten any..

Mr. Darkie, are most of these car available and familiar to people in the USA and Canada

[DaGonz]

My Mom owned a sleeper car back in the mid to late 1970's. Her 1969 Plymouth Fury 3 was totalled when a drunk plowed into it while parked. She went out and bought herself a 1972 Chevelle.. 4 doors, brown metallic paint with a vinyl roof. It was a smaller car than her Fury, and she couldn't understand why it got worse gas mileage.

Perhaps it had something to do with the 427 under the hood...

[2002 Z06]

um......wow

[Frito Bandito]

I always liked 80s turbo Regals personally.

[Scottwax]

Originally Posted by fstb88

There are only three sleepers in my mind. One would be and early 90s Thunderbird with the SC or the Second Gen Ford Taurus SHO, with a slight mod(sv heads and cams off a SVT Contour) it can pull major power without turbo or superchargers. Little bit of an extensive build but will be very solid. O and the late 80s turbo charged T-Birds

Those aren't sleepers to someone who knows cars though. Sleeper, IMO, are cars that had no performance aspirations stock. That's why the Malibu/Caddy engine combo works so well.

Hot Rod once did an article about a twin turbo'ed 350 stuff into a Rambler. Now that's a sleeper!

[Asad_A203]

3000GT VR4 FTW. With a downpipe and a boost controller; you should be pushing around 400 H.P on a car that will probably cost 14k.

[David Fermani]

A sleeper to me is something that looks and sound weak. We had a sleeper Mustang back in the early 90's and we use to pick on all the trailer cars. We'd beg them for a 10 car spot (with the leave) and they'd never catch up. Most of the time we'd shut the car down early and never run it all the way out. Then run it back for double of nothing. People always thought we were bringing a knife to a gun fight until they had to pay up.

[C25A1guy]

That reminds me. i used to use the trannies from the Regal GS on my old civic and integra drag projects. Send the trans off the level 10 for their rebuild service, strap it onto a B-series with a bell housing adapter. Never had to worry about transmission issues ever again and never had to lift for the rest of the quarter mile.

But I did somewhat get crucified by many in the Honda/Acura community for doing so, but it worked so I never bothered to listen.

[victory]

Originally Posted by C25A1guy

That reminds me. i used to use the trannies from the Regal GS on my old civic and integra drag projects. Send the trans off the level 10 for their rebuild service, strap it onto a B-series with a bell housing adapter. Never had to worry about transmission issues ever again and never had to lift for the rest of the quarter mile.

But I did somewhat get crucified by many in the Honda/Acura community for doing so, but it worked so I never bothered to listen.

Gotta get them built though. Once we start pushing mid to low 13's in the regal we cook stock trannies pretty regularly. Bigger car though with a lot more torque

[soccer6planet]

Didn't chevy make an avalanche with an 8.1 liter engine? possible slleper especially for a big truck

[Accumulator]

Originally Posted by Scottwax

..the Mazda 626 GT, turbo engine like the Ford Probe, total stealth machine.

Accumulatorette had one of those before she switched to Audis. Very cool little ride (and bulletproof reliability- just fluids, filters, and lots of tires for a very hard ~95K miles), but the torquesteer was brutal, even with stock power levels, even at a pretty good roll..