What is the best sleeper tuner platform?

This.

A buddy of mine bought an older turbobrick for $200. He did a turbo swap for $150 and built a home-made boost controller.

Damn thing could probably run a low 12 if you could keep it at WOT for more than 8 seconds without it cutting fuel/timing from sensing knock.

I have driven and owned several race cars (8s range) and that fucking turbobrick was the most unruly and violent car I've ever driven. Zero manners. Raped ape.

First gen honda insight, motor swapped and muffled to hell.

I've heard a lot of food things about ecotec engines, but I'm afraid I don't know much more. In terms of the Saturn Ion Redline, GM sold engine kits and iirc you can get over 240hp with them. I'd imagine you could get more power with some aftermarket parts. Plus a lot of it is interchangeable with the cobalt ss

Any saab with the b234r or b204r, motor way over built and any t3 turbo will bolt right to the factory exhaust manifold.

2jz anyone?

First gen Skoda Superb, and here's why:
These are VW B5 platform cars. Mechanically as good as identical to the B5 Passat, which just so happens to be one of the few generations of Passat to share the majority of its drivetrain with the Audi A4 of the same years.
The Skoda even came in AWD (just like the A4 and Passat), though that's a fairly rare version, and those AWD parts are straight up Audi Quattro bits. This means the entire drivetrain from a B5 S4 or RS4 should bolt right in, and that twin turbo V6 can make pretty good power.
You could even fit one of Audi's 4.2l V8s in there, too. Fairly common swap for B5 platform cars.

And then you can blow people the fuck out at the lights in a fucking Skoda.

cresta/chaser/mkII/verossa

thats exactly what i was thinking
big single turbo 4dr in lame ass white like that would be the awesome.
rhd is the only thing that that sucks about it

We don't have this in 'MURICA

One of these will also house an S4 or RS4 drivetrain. Hell, the AWD bits on the 4motion versions just say "Audi" instead of "VW/Audi".

Tesla.

>looks like a piece of shit saturn ion

Except the front looks way sexier. But if it's an ion redline they wont be seeing much of your front.

Galant VR-4.

Beautiful

Here's my admission

>Is the GM ecotec known for being a tuner platform or something?
Yes.GM heavily publicized it between 2002 and 2010 through the GM Performance Division. You can even go to GM and buy a book or 3 that tells you how to modify the Ecotec engine for power.
GM's own 2.0L Ecotec powered pro-FWD drag cars make 1400 HP.

Companies like ZZPerformance have ecotec performance parts as their bread and butter.

A riced out civic/integra/s14 doesn't matter, as long as it has insane bodykits and underglow and all that. No, I'm not shitposting, let me explain:
Riced out cars are viewed the same as stanced cars by auto enthusiasts, more or less. Flashiness over speed, too much money on unnessecery addons, etc. Everyone expects a riced civic to break off a bumper or to lose to an old volvo brick in a drag race, AND THAT is exactly why they would make the best sleepers. If you make it actually fast, nobody will ever see it coming.

W124

LS400 is considered a grandpa car. But has quite an aftermarket scene and has a bay that can fit most high-performance engines. Can he had for under $2000

Is it hard to manual swap them?

Literally the same powertrain as a Supra, so no.

not the 400. the 400 is the 4 liter pos V8

>LS400
>Same powertrain as a supra
dumbass it has a v8

bump

Stock bottom end on a 3800 is good for 600 HP easy.

E30 BMW 3 series
>light
>strong, simple engine and drivetrain
>huge aftermarket

E28 BMW 5 series
>strong, simple engines and drivetrain
>lots of space for turbos and swaps

Volvo 2/740
>strong, simple engine (weak transmission though)
>lots of space for turbos and swaps

yes but many adapter kits are out there, the parts themselves will cost around $800-1000 and the transmission can cost from $1000-1200

What about the transmission? There's no way it'll last long at 600 HP. Can the stock transmission even handle that much?

Nah, it'll shit itself around 400

Chevy Astro with a V8, sub 4000lbs, RWD.

Just bought a 94 850 T-5, and holy fuck the thing is a beast stock. One tire fire for sure though.

sleepers dont exist anymore now that new corvettes make upwards of 600 horsepower.

The upside is that the vast majority of cars top out in the 9's whether it's a supra or a twin turbo farmtruck because of physics or something. So dump enough money into anything and it'll be a "sleeper" I guess. It isn't 2006 anymore.

Perfect

940
>same dealio as the 240/740
>m90 transmission stronk
>last of the great rwd swedebarges
Bonus points for making a wagon sleeper

where's the fucking W190?!

>W190
It's either a 190E, or a W201 (it's chassis code). Make up your mind.

And they're utterly slow by modern standards. The quickest would be the inline six, which is pigfat heavy, and only manages an 8.7 sec 0-60. Anything with 16 valves is ridiculously expensive, and isn't a sleeper since they usually come with very conspicuous bodykits.

The 16v is much quicker than the i6. Swapping in an m104 AMG i6 would be the best way to get B I G power.

>M90 stonk
More like stronger, you're still gonna fuck up the syncro for 3rd unless you modify the tranny. Best way to make a rwd volvo sleeper is probably with a getrag transmission + T5 combo, you can just buy all parts as bolt ons, no modification needed.

940s didn't come with M90 in the US, that's why I didn't include that

Sierra or Escort Cossie, make it look like the regular shitbox model and soup that baby up!

>The 16v is much quicker than the i6.
Also 10 times as flashy. The bodykits on the 16v models are a dead giveaway, and even then they take about 8 seconds to get to 60MPH. Not a performance car by any modern standard. The only ones that are kind of good are the EVO's, and those are more expensive than your house.

>Swap in an M104
Which would probably be a major hassle, because the E36 AMG was rare as fuck, and the W201 chassis was designed for a single cam 2.6L I6, not a DOHC 3.6L one. And then, after all that ridiculous work, you end up, at the very best, with acceleration on par with the W210 E36's, so about 6.7 seconds to 60. A Fiesta ST would give you a run for your money.

Face it, the W201 chassis makes for an awful sleeper.

Usually, the synchro is fucked because of people resting their hands heavily on the shifter and slamshifting it like apes. I've put around 250 horses through mine for over a year now with no issue. It was pretty well maintained when I bought it, though, so that probably helps.

5cyl, 24vales, does not compute. 20 or 25 I get

Looks like a 6 to me.

>6 intake ports
It's a 6 cilinder, duh.