Ah, this reminds me of when I was doing my National Diploma in Motor Vehicle at college
Many a project was started but never finished, usually leaving a completely non-working vehicle that, at the start, used to be almost road worthy with a few tweaks.

The main one that sticks in my mind was trying to turn this early 90's BMW into a Touring Car. Our tutor decided that we needed to make it as light as possible, so out came the tools and then out came the interior of the car leaving no seat for the driver. Brilliant! So we tried to fit a bucket seat from a Toyota MR2 (there's a story about that too, maybe I'll post it later) but it wouldn't fit. So I mounted it on 2 planks of wood so we could get it to fit the original seat mounts. Hmmm, very safe in a race situation.

After lightening it was decided that it should have a spoiler, so out came the welder and the steel plating. We built the most stupid spoiler I have ever seen because we couldn't agree on the design (should it be supported from the middle or the ends?) so we went for both. This means that all the weight that was taken out was added on the back end in the form of a spoiler made from twice the amount of mild steel it needed (to be fair it should never be made from steel in the first place).

The final nail in the coffin of this project was when we cut out the catalytic convertors and replaced it with steel tubing and welded cones on the end of the exhaust. It sounded like a souped up tractor!

Another thing that had been fitted was a roll cage that didn't connect in certain places.

So we ended up with a gutted BMW that weighed as much as tractor and sounded like one. Oh and did I mention that after doing all that we discovered it had a crack in the engine block. Lucky we ballsed it up really, otherwise we might have been pissed off.
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:42, Reply)