TheSamba.com :: View topic - 200HP plus Porsche powered Karmann Ghia on e bay

Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:40 pm

On the samba too!! here is the link. I played the video of it running! :twisted:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=257070
And e bay link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Volkswagen-Karmann-...enameZWDVW

Louie

Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:54 am

I saw that car on ebay. It is wild! It doesn't look like a hack job but I have to wonder how well it handles and if there is adequate cooling for the engine.

Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:22 pm

its probably great on the straight away, and would surprise the honda crowd,(and a few other crowds too for that matter!) but I doubt you could lay it into curves like a porsche(unless it was that bader ghia) but the porsche engine is sooo expensive, I mean you could build up a VW case (maybe a type 4) with that kind of HP easy without going through as much trouble to 'shoehorn" it in, but I like anything thats done tastefully

Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:40 pm

The seller for the Ghia posted a video link on the eBay ad, check it out:

On Dec-31-05 at 14:30:22 PST, seller added the following information:
Check Out The New Videos Of Car Here
http://www.freewebs.com/burrman65/

Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:01 pm

Banzai KG wrote: The seller for the Ghia posted a video link on the eBay ad, check it out

Sweeet...gotta love that SOUND and RAW torque =D>

Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:50 pm

Hey--anyone remember that Road Runner cartoon where Wile E. Coyote bolted an Acme rocket onto his bicycle?

Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:02 am

garyrowland wrote: its probably great on the straight away

Hey Gary, from the looks of the video.....he's having a little trouble on the straight away. Check him out on the way back...he just about puts in in the ditch.
That ghia is out of control... :shock:

ACSwede wrote: Sweeet...gotta love that SOUND and RAW torque

I did like the sound....played it several times just to hear it.

Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:57 pm

yikes! I just watched the videos for the 1st time, all our cars will do that on the road here in northwest Indiana, in jan.and feb. - but thats because of "black ice"!! I think I'd wanna sell that ghia too, if it were mine, that is, after I took it out to play a little! (on dry pavement)

Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:03 pm

At least he included the videos so you can see the normal driving style the car gets.

Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:42 pm

That sure doesn't sound like any Porsche I've ever heard. More like an
American V8. :?

Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:40 pm

Slowest download ever. I have a life to live.
Chris.

Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:32 pm

crtclff wrote: Slowest download ever. I have a life to live.
Chris.
Oh, quit your bloody whining, man :P

Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:18 pm

Since I was too lazy to wait for the download, (whining Limey) I figured I would just focus on the pictures (anal Limey) What a freaking hatchet job :shock:
Nuff said ?
Chris.
Bugger off Chuck :lol:

Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:32 pm

hey everybody, can't ya just "feel" the luv between iowegian and crtclff? I think it all started when they pulled beers from each others coolers!

Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:07 pm

Cheeky bastard, "the dissapearing man returns ???????????
Glad to to see you are alive Gary.
Best wishes for the new year to you and your family.
Chris Afton and ensemble.

Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:04 pm

I posted that stuff for him, and I have road in the car its awsome if he had racing gas in on the day I took the videos it would have stayed straight and would have burned rubber for as long as he kept his foot in it it handles very well in curves at high speed and runs cool to this engine was a 2.7 and ran like no other porsche I've been in. He sold the motor to someone after it ran on ebay for a few days but he still has the car and plans to put in a 901 5 speed and a vw engine and relist it.

Burrman65

Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:23 pm

Todd5 wrote: I posted that stuff for him, and I have road in the car its awsome if he had racing gas in on the day I took the videos it would have stayed straight and would have burned rubber for as long as he kept his foot in it it handles very well in curves at high speed and runs cool to this engine was a 2.7 and ran like no other porsche I've been in. He sold the motor to someone after it ran on ebay for a few days but he still has the car and plans to put in a 901 5 speed and a vw engine and relist it.

Burrman65

What would the racing fuel have to do with the car going straight? Wouldn't that have to do with suspension setup or the pitch of the road?

Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:01 pm

bugman55 wrote: Todd5 wrote: I posted that stuff for him, and I have road in the car its awsome if he had racing gas in on the day I took the videos it would have stayed straight and would have burned rubber for as long as he kept his foot in it it handles very well in curves at high speed and runs cool to this engine was a 2.7 and ran like no other porsche I've been in. He sold the motor to someone after it ran on ebay for a few days but he still has the car and plans to put in a 901 5 speed and a vw engine and relist it.

Burrman65

What would the racing fuel have to do with the car going straight? Wouldn't that have to do with suspension setup or the pitch of the road?
Strap a J.A.T.O. rocket on that sucker and it would go straight to the moon. :shock:

Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:41 am

It looks like a terrible install, what's up with the flexible hose hanging carelessly under the back of the car?

Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:45 am

bidding has ended and the seller has pulled the pictures. i guess he saw this thread. :twisted: