I worked at the dealership when these were new! I remember the truck pulling up and dropping off the IROC R/T what a beast! Dodge has always been a fun brand! This Daytona is just amazing! Whoever built this is just great! Congrats! Thank you for sharing! What a clean build!
Thats what im saying, if they had brought it out with the 5.2 and 5.9 as options back in the day with rwd it would have been a great three way battle with the mustang and Camaro
@@skeptic669 in 89 even the 360 was a turd. They were faster with the turbo believe it or not. Chrysler had no intention of keeping the v8 thing alive as they didn't even have a hemi or a big block that year.
@@skeptic669 because I know that my 89 and 87 dodge vehicles with 318s and 360s are gutless and slower than shit. My early EARLY 80s dodge 600 would smoke anyone of those 80s v8 cars/ trucks
Mopar Performance used to sell a kit through the dealerships to convert these G-Bodies to small-block LA (318/340/360, etc) power... it's the way that Chrysler should have built them in the first place to fight the 5.0 Mustang and IROC-Z competition.
Welcome to driving a car without driver's aids. You, the driver, are the ABS, the traction control, stability control, etc. The good, old fashioned, way.
That's the first thing I thought of, was that car from that movie when I saw one of these back when I was a kid back in 1992. Should have been rear-wheel-drive at the bare minimum at least should have had like a tiny V8 like something from they're 2.2 or 2.4 L turbo series engines, at least it would have that sound or maybe even that engine they were using out of the duster, the 305. With barely 3000 lb to move you're not going to need more than maybe 200 horsepower to make this thing scoot.
@@wheels-n-tires1846 why? They had twin turbo awd dodge stealths, atleast there is more room for a driveshaft and rear end if you start with one of them also
My first car was a Daytona I bought it because the wraith. I wish I could show you a picture that's on my Facebook. My Daytona park next to my friend's GT mustang and then you understand why when we raced I felt so freaking shitty. I feel like that movie did me dirty. Even though I still love it and would want to get an LS swapped or hemi in one of these bad boys.
@@djemischief1 plz just go Hemi... LS in a Mopar is sacrilege!!! 🤣 I dont know how hard they are to find, but Mopar Performance used to sell a "Super 60" kit...bigger than stock turbo, bigger injectors, remapped ecu... Made the lil 2.2/2.5 a 300 horse beast that embarrassed muscle cars all day long. They were the first truly fast FWD cars...long before the Japanese tuners caught on!!! I bet today itd be easy to build your own, and do all the upgrades, plus have much better engine management (like an AEM?) thats much more tuneable. So dont give up on its stock engine before thinking about V8 swaps!!
@@enjoythesho1992 another good Daytona appearance was in the movie "Gotcha"... A mostly forgotten movie with Goose from TopGun, and his buddy has a fun lil chase scene with the FBI in his Daytona... This movie is where "we dont need no stinking badges" came from LOL!!😂
@@wheels-n-tires1846 yeah if I ever was going to do it it would definitely be one of the new hemis that makes the most sense. Keep dodge with Dodge specially with one of my favorite cars.
Got one too, an original 91 shelby with 12k. Always wanted to get a beater to fix and toss a hemi from a total in it. I think the cheaper drivable option is to keep the fwd, toss in a 3.6 pentastar with a twin turbo... make it about 400ish usable hp, and she'd be sailing, and handling.
What exhaust 8s on it. It has a nice throttle response when revved. Not that slow rev down like most hemis. Where can I find more details about the parts and procedures.
I had one of these in 1996, and a kid at my school had a blue one with silver stripes, 318 and RWD. This is what I wish my car was back then. Mine was also RED! I had bison blood interior tho
I had an '87 back in the day. These cars are extremely light compared to modern cars. I imagine driving this being like being a newbie motorcyclist riding a 1000cc hyperbike. So much power to weight.
A little unknown fact,...you could purchase a rear-wheel drive conversion kit from Mopar performance parts. Ever wonder what the hump in the back seat floor was for?... Now you know. 🙂 These Daytona's had a lower drag coefficient than the Porsche 911 at that time. They were fun and fast, depending on what variation of the model you purchased. What shop in California produced this monster! Pappa wants wants!...I likey!!! I'm so drooling at this moment!!!
Awesome Hemi-powered Dodge Daytona! That 5.7 Hemi engine is probably too much for that front wheel drive platform to handle. It probably needs a tune, bigger tires (305s), and modern Brembo brakes to handle all that power. Other than that, nice!!!
I still have my 86 Chrysler Lazer (from high school in the 90s!) and this conversion is in its future now, though with the 392. US Car and Tool has some prototype pieces to make these swaps easier. I think the front suspension is the more challenging component on these cars. Great video!
Really nice car and it sounds great! I have a original 89 shelby and two other 93 Daytona's I always lived these cars. First car I ever had was a 93 Daytona es which I still have. Cool stuff.
Cool car! My brother had an '87 Daytona that'd been modified...I think it was a Shelby model to start with but it'd had the head redone and a different turbo....about 224 hp I think it dyno'd. It was a little beast. Dodge had the unequal length half shafts so one would wind up more than the other and try to torque steer you into the weeds. I drove it a few times and it was really fast. Just like my buddy's GLHS Omni was...you could spin the front tires up to about 45-50mph. My brother wrapped the Daytona around a tree. This one would be a complete monster. I'd like to build one! I'm working on putting a Redeye into a '70 Charger.... Cool video dudes!
Always thought they were cool cars and was a little sad that they never put a V8 in one but seeing you do it is great lol. My neighbor had a black on black 5sp and I loved it and he also had a red '85 2m4 Pontiac Fiero as well and always thought that they'd be great cars with a V8. Maybe even put a R34 GTR Skyline engine I think it's the RB 6cyl in a Fiero. Anyways thank you for sharing this great car and build with us and I hope that you still have it today. 🍻
I worked with a guy in the early 00's that had one of these with a turbo 340 in it. His back end was partially tubbed so he could run drag radials of appropriate size
I built an 85' Daytona turbo Z out of a bunch of old worn-out rusty Daytonas and Lasers (about 5 total) that I collected back in the mid 90's, and it's original 2.2 turbo was no slouch by any means. But what I really wanted to do with it was to convert it to RWD and then do a 360 magnum twin turbo V8 swap with a 727. A "727", so that there's no down time in between gear shifts for the turbos to "un"-spool. But ya know, life happens....
Always liked these cars, and I always thought they should have come with a V8 instead of a front-wheel drive like the k-series chassis had. If I ever build something like this, I'll go V8 but I'm probably going to go something a little bit smaller. 500 horsepower is a bit much. The car barely weighs 3000 pounds, I'd be happy with 350, 400 tops. Don't want to crash it with my Leadfoot.
Oh my God. To the guy that is talking in the video. I'm 41 years old and my first car was this car. Mine was as an 89 Daytona ES. It was a 2.5 automatic and it was slow as shit. It looked fast. And the reason I bought it was because of the Wraith. I was like hell if this thing could beat a Corvette I'm in. But at that time I had no idea about engines and horsepower and stuff like that. The car was beautiful it was a one owner car and I bought it in 1998. I would love to show you a picture but I cannot figure how to get a link to my Facebook photo album.
Awesome! This car needs a wide body kit and fat tires. You need to put this car on a lift so we can see what is going on under the car. Call this car Jaws, "We are going to need bigger brakes"
People always mistaken me for an IROC-Z camaro back in the 90s and try to race me, also if you even think about moving the indicator in any direction other than left, or right, the headlight WILL pop up!
My 88 Daytona shelby 14:36 Z had 174 hp this thing like what triple the horsepower yes if I can build one of these and drive in the street in California, I would car brings back all the good memories. I had dark leather interior. The seats were so dang comfortable Daytona blue with Tops fun little cars.
Wish you had filmed the gauges during acceleration. Also, how cool would it be to send this thing back in time to get revenge on all the Fox-Bodies. We'd call it Wraith 2! Haha
Not a 1991 false 1990 last year for pop up headlights. I own one turbo vnt fun even with a 4 cylinder can't even imagine a hemi in it . I think i'll just keep it !!
Can you provide any I formation on this conversion? I have a 92 Daytona and want to look at my options. Can you put me in touch with whoever did the work?
The unfortunate problem with putting a longitudinal engine and transmission into a front wheel drive car is that the engine is mounted forward of the front wheels which teeter totters the weight off of the rear wheels. The only way to get it to hook up would be to tub it out with big monster slicks. It is a much overlooked fact that rear wheel drive cars are actually mid-engined...just a front-mid as opposed to a rear-mid. But its still a fun project and cool, clean setup.
Okay, I will challenge you to study stuff under the hood of rear wheel drive cars. Note the relation of the strut towers to the engine position. Note the overhang of the front facia of a front drive car to a rear wheel drive car. You can use google images to do all of this and you *will* notice a pattern. Then, any of us who played on a teeter totter on the playground as a kid should be able to understand the physics involved. Post a link here to an image of an originally rear wheel drive car where the strut towers are not much more forward of the bulk of the engine. Unless the car has something stupid like 60 degrees of caster, what I say about the engine position relative to the front wheels is true.
Look, and find proof of me being wrong as opposed to just assuming about something you never paid attention to before. A crown vic, lexus gs, mustang, BMW, Charger/challenger, rear drive based Jeeps, etc. They all have much steeper approach angles with the front wheels moved farther forward relative to the engine position.
Lots of nope, for a car to be “mid engined” the engine has to be 100% between the wheels. Corvettes, S2000s, some Mercedes, and a hand full of other cars are front mid engined. You flat out said “it is a much overlooked fact that rear wheel drive cars are actually mid-engined..” Thats the statement I was the mind numbingly stupid one.
Now, as to the engine of this car being too far forward because it used to be FWD. Nope. The engine is in a pretty good place for such a huge engine to fit in a relatively small engine bay. It is definitely not 100% hanging off of the front axel, and it has enough weight in the rear. The problem is OVER 500 HP and 225 tires in a lightweight car.....
They would have had to have been on another platform, as they were K-car based. But yeah, they would have been total badasses if Iacocca came up with a rear wheel drive idea for them.
Hey, can't go wrong with a hemi had one Daytona 2.2 VNT. Probably too late to say Why don't you bump start it Instead of using the ignition. Anyways wicked car
So you never say how fast you had it up to. When I was in high school we were putting small block v8 in pinto chevettes and Vegas . I would own and daily drive this car.
I would gladly drive the heck out of those other cars this one is different. Maybe because the owner scared me in it before. it was the fastest rolling burnout I have been in.
At 9:30 when they are Doing the exhaust clip I'm expecting there to be like a challenger just out of frame because there's no way that cars making that sound.
I worked at the dealership when these were new! I remember the truck pulling up and dropping off the IROC R/T what a beast! Dodge has always been a fun brand! This Daytona is just amazing! Whoever built this is just great! Congrats! Thank you for sharing! What a clean build!
I always wanted a dodge stealth it's like a vipers lil brother
Wow this car being rwd looks so right this car should have came from the factory this way
Thats what im saying, if they had brought it out with the 5.2 and 5.9 as options back in the day with rwd it would have been a great three way battle with the mustang and Camaro
@@skeptic669 in 89 even the 360 was a turd. They were faster with the turbo believe it or not. Chrysler had no intention of keeping the v8 thing alive as they didn't even have a hemi or a big block that year.
@@jimmyfuchstein2274 did they make one with a v8 from the factory? How would you know if it was faster with the turbo 4cyl?
@@skeptic669 because I know that my 89 and 87 dodge vehicles with 318s and 360s are gutless and slower than shit. My early EARLY 80s dodge 600 would smoke anyone of those 80s v8 cars/ trucks
Needs a vr4 and awd.
Mopar Performance used to sell a kit through the dealerships to convert these G-Bodies to small-block LA (318/340/360, etc) power... it's the way that Chrysler should have built them in the first place to fight the 5.0 Mustang and IROC-Z competition.
Welcome to driving a car without driver's aids. You, the driver, are the ABS, the traction control, stability control, etc. The good, old fashioned, way.
Yeah its hard to drive because no ABS. Not the 500 horsepower.
The Wraith is exactly why I started liking these cars in the 80s.
Loved that movie
That's the first thing I thought of, was that car from that movie when I saw one of these back when I was a kid back in 1992. Should have been rear-wheel-drive at the bare minimum at least should have had like a tiny V8 like something from they're 2.2 or 2.4 L turbo series engines, at least it would have that sound or maybe even that engine they were using out of the duster, the 305. With barely 3000 lb to move you're not going to need more than maybe 200 horsepower to make this thing scoot.
@@ericbeltrami2718best movie of all time
Wow! I love RWD conversions on 80’s cars!
Love to do this some day with a Stealth...!!
@@wheels-n-tires1846 why? They had twin turbo awd dodge stealths, atleast there is more room for a driveshaft and rear end if you start with one of them also
I want an AWD set up like dodge 5.7 AWD cop cars . I wouldn't want any power adders just the 5.7 as is .
love seeing these 80s dodge performance cars turned into rwd’s
The Wraith...!!!! I didnt think anyone else ever saw that flick LOL!!! Love the Daytonas!!
My first car was a Daytona I bought it because the wraith. I wish I could show you a picture that's on my Facebook. My Daytona park next to my friend's GT mustang and then you understand why when we raced I felt so freaking shitty. I feel like that movie did me dirty. Even though I still love it and would want to get an LS swapped or hemi in one of these bad boys.
@@djemischief1 plz just go Hemi... LS in a Mopar is sacrilege!!! 🤣
I dont know how hard they are to find, but Mopar Performance used to sell a "Super 60" kit...bigger than stock turbo, bigger injectors, remapped ecu... Made the lil 2.2/2.5 a 300 horse beast that embarrassed muscle cars all day long. They were the first truly fast FWD cars...long before the Japanese tuners caught on!!!
I bet today itd be easy to build your own, and do all the upgrades, plus have much better engine management (like an AEM?) thats much more tuneable. So dont give up on its stock engine before thinking about V8 swaps!!
@@djemischief1 Even though my first car in high school was a 68 Charger, I really wanted a Daytona too!!
@@enjoythesho1992 another good Daytona appearance was in the movie "Gotcha"... A mostly forgotten movie with Goose from TopGun, and his buddy has a fun lil chase scene with the FBI in his Daytona... This movie is where "we dont need no stinking badges" came from LOL!!😂
@@wheels-n-tires1846 yeah if I ever was going to do it it would definitely be one of the new hemis that makes the most sense. Keep dodge with Dodge specially with one of my favorite cars.
The Camaro and Mustang of the day would have cried if the Daytona had a V8 and rwd from the factory.
The Conquest TSI was the best option in those years
@@Durahan82 i had both. the Conquest was far superior in performance and quality
@@twoshady518And to think this was a Shelby according to the decals on the door.
awesome, thanks guys, I have an original and always thought they should have done RWD with HEMI.
I think awd with the turbo and another 50hp on awd model would have been golden back then
Got one too, an original 91 shelby with 12k. Always wanted to get a beater to fix and toss a hemi from a total in it. I think the cheaper drivable option is to keep the fwd, toss in a 3.6 pentastar with a twin turbo... make it about 400ish usable hp, and she'd be sailing, and handling.
@Jefferybobela I would trade you my boat for that car, you'd be getting the better deal. Message me if you interested
Is there a build thread on this? I want to do this
What exhaust 8s on it. It has a nice throttle response when revved. Not that slow rev down like most hemis. Where can I find more details about the parts and procedures.
The car Dodge should have came out with! Love it!
This is what Shelby should have done, not turbocharged the small engines. LOL
Totally amazing. The craftsmanship is off the chain
This HEMI gave me a semi.
only a semi? I need a towel now.
Gave me a full on and cant stop grinning!!!@
Wyatt knows what he's got. That cars exhaust sounds so good. Someone turned it into a hot rod. I'd love to see what it can do in a quarter mile.
I had one of these in 1996, and a kid at my school had a blue one with silver stripes, 318 and RWD. This is what I wish my car was back then. Mine was also RED! I had bison blood interior tho
@@kevinjohnson9372 Kids dad. He was the mopar nut that built the car
I had an '87 back in the day. These cars are extremely light compared to modern cars. I imagine driving this being like being a newbie motorcyclist riding a 1000cc hyperbike. So much power to weight.
I would love this car. Very well done. Light weight and excellent handling.
A little unknown fact,...you could purchase a rear-wheel drive conversion kit from Mopar performance parts. Ever wonder what the hump in the back seat floor was for?... Now you know. 🙂
These Daytona's had a lower drag coefficient than the Porsche 911 at that time. They were fun and fast, depending on what variation of the model you purchased. What shop in California produced this monster! Pappa wants wants!...I likey!!! I'm so drooling at this moment!!!
25 + years of welding, fabrication and machining. I'm building one
Just like Ford had a kit to put a Mustang powertrain into a Focus..
That is a seriously cool car! when I was a Kid, I saw one of these In blue, with a built 360 magnum. I thought it was freaking awesome!
Ok, this thing has a "little" more HP than my base 1988 Dodge Daytona 2.2L 5 speed. LOL Very cool getting a Hemi in there!!
Awesome Hemi-powered Dodge Daytona! That 5.7 Hemi engine is probably too much for that front wheel drive platform to handle. It probably needs a tune, bigger tires (305s), and modern Brembo brakes to handle all that power. Other than that, nice!!!
I still have my 86 Chrysler Lazer (from high school in the 90s!) and this conversion is in its future now, though with the 392. US Car and Tool has some prototype pieces to make these swaps easier. I think the front suspension is the more challenging component on these cars. Great video!
What's you plan of attack? I have a 80 Omni o24 I'm planning on running a 318 in
Good luck fitting that 392 in there. They had to stuff that 5.7 in there so you might not make 6.4 fit.
Wow... that must have been a helluva project...
I hate to say it, but boys this is a man’s car. 😊
The ultimate sleeper!!! Sounds really really good!!!
fun fact. the wraith car was also a turbo 2.2 custom cosworth head with 450 hp.
I would LOVE to do this swap to a mid '80s Shelby Charger lol, oh my...
Really nice car and it sounds great! I have a original 89 shelby and two other 93 Daytona's I always lived these cars. First car I ever had was a 93 Daytona es which I still have. Cool stuff.
Cool car! My brother had an '87 Daytona that'd been modified...I think it was a Shelby model to start with but it'd had the head redone and a different turbo....about 224 hp I think it dyno'd. It was a little beast. Dodge had the unequal length half shafts so one would wind up more than the other and try to torque steer you into the weeds. I drove it a few times and it was really fast. Just like my buddy's GLHS Omni was...you could spin the front tires up to about 45-50mph. My brother wrapped the Daytona around a tree. This one would be a complete monster. I'd like to build one! I'm working on putting a Redeye into a '70 Charger.... Cool video dudes!
Excellent work gentleman. 💫💫💫
Always thought they were cool cars and was a little sad that they never put a V8 in one but seeing you do it is great lol. My neighbor had a black on black 5sp and I loved it and he also had a red '85 2m4 Pontiac Fiero as well and always thought that they'd be great cars with a V8. Maybe even put a R34 GTR Skyline engine I think it's the RB 6cyl in a Fiero. Anyways thank you for sharing this great car and build with us and I hope that you still have it today. 🍻
I worked with a guy in the early 00's that had one of these with a turbo 340 in it. His back end was partially tubbed so he could run drag radials of appropriate size
- wicked vehicle the Dodge brothers are proud!!!!!!!!!
I built an 85' Daytona turbo Z out of a bunch of old worn-out rusty Daytonas and Lasers (about 5 total) that I collected back in the mid 90's, and it's original 2.2 turbo was no slouch by any means. But what I really wanted to do with it was to convert it to RWD and then do a 360 magnum twin turbo V8 swap with a 727. A "727", so that there's no down time in between gear shifts for the turbos to "un"-spool.
But ya know, life happens....
Definition of a sleeper…Mustang or Camaro pulls up thinking you got the 2.2 in it..surprise!!!
If dodge had a foxbody it would be like this 🙌🏾
Back in the day guys used to put small blocks in em and rwd. But they built them for the drag strip with struts and roll cages too
I am planning on buying my old 89 Dodge Daytona Shelby and doing Exactly that to it only with twin turbo!! MAN UP BOYS!! 😁😆😅🤣😂
Listening to GenZ 20 somthings drive old school stuff is funny asf
Christ all mighty I bet thats fun AF!
Always liked these cars, and I always thought they should have come with a V8 instead of a front-wheel drive like the k-series chassis had. If I ever build something like this, I'll go V8 but I'm probably going to go something a little bit smaller. 500 horsepower is a bit much. The car barely weighs 3000 pounds, I'd be happy with 350, 400 tops. Don't want to crash it with my Leadfoot.
I'd try to turbo a pentastar, but playing mechanical lottery on a v6 is asking for heartbreak. I think a spicy 318 will get you there.
Oh my God. To the guy that is talking in the video. I'm 41 years old and my first car was this car. Mine was as an 89 Daytona ES. It was a 2.5 automatic and it was slow as shit. It looked fast. And the reason I bought it was because of the Wraith. I was like hell if this thing could beat a Corvette I'm in. But at that time I had no idea about engines and horsepower and stuff like that. The car was beautiful it was a one owner car and I bought it in 1998. I would love to show you a picture but I cannot figure how to get a link to my Facebook photo album.
I had the 90 es 3.0 Mitsubishii v6.the car was so fun to drive!
Great looking body with a Hemi engine swap.
Dodge should do this.. I would buy it!! Looks like my old 90. They should have made it this way to begin with.
This is the way every dodge daytona should a cam in the 80s 😉
Dude remembers “the wraith” lol noice 👌
Awesome! This car needs a wide body kit and fat tires. You need to put this car on a lift so we can see what is going on under the car. Call this car Jaws, "We are going to need bigger brakes"
Hahah the owner wants to keep it as stock looking as possible. I think he should tub it and get the rear wheels banded so it can take some 315s.
My dad had one of these when I was a kid.. woulda scared the sht outta me w that engine in it lmao
Hey man I love this car, who built this and where and how much would it cost to do another one
People always mistaken me for an IROC-Z camaro back in the 90s and try to race me, also if you even think about moving the indicator in any direction other than left, or right, the headlight WILL pop up!
My Project 88 pacifica will be that and more, hemi awd with hellcat supercharger added on. will post when complete.
This is what modified cars used to be. No driver aids, and you have to keep from spinning wheels or locking up the brakes. You had to be a good driver
Its like 500hp with 20 year old 195s it is much worse than what they used to be.
@@ZackandWyatt oh, and bad tires they boot! Okay, so that's why so nervous driving her
Nothing with a Shelby label on it can be considered a sleeper
I had the exact same key ring for my 1992 chrysler Daytona😮
My 88 Daytona shelby 14:36 Z had 174 hp this thing like what triple the horsepower yes if I can build one of these and drive in the street in California, I would car brings back all the good memories. I had dark leather interior. The seats were so dang comfortable Daytona blue with Tops fun little cars.
I remember back in the day, I believe car craft told everything need to do switch kcar to rwdd with 318 or 360 for drag racing.
That car is in SOCAL...Saw it at spring fling...
David Patterson DESPERATELY needs to sit in this driver seat.
Wish you had filmed the gauges during acceleration. Also, how cool would it be to send this thing back in time to get revenge on all the Fox-Bodies. We'd call it Wraith 2! Haha
Who did the build? I would like to know more about the independent rear suspension conversion. I was hoping for more of that info in the video.
Me too. I’m willing to go broke for it. Tom Allard did one year’s ago with a solid axle.
Robert Frost has it now on here.
I want one!!!
Not a 1991 false 1990 last year for pop up headlights. I own one turbo vnt fun even with a 4 cylinder can't even imagine a hemi in it . I think i'll just keep it !!
Wrong, 92/93 went back to a fixed headlight... I had a '91 ES 2.5 Na and it was pop up head lamps.
Now, imagine doing this for the Chrysler LeBaron.🤭😂😁✨
I think that car is possessed ... !
Dodge Daytona Demon
Kool as heck🔥🔥🔥
That's awesome I was telling people I want to do something similar to my stratus
Do you another video of how this car is setup? I'm curious how they did the conversion. There are a couple different ways to approach it.
180+ hp turbo 2 series and about 2800lbs in stock form
I am currently in the process of rebuilding a 1989 Dodge Daytona my dad gave me. I need all the info on this conversion.
Probably like 5k hours
Badass from left to right i wish i get to see this car in person again
350hp out the front tires of one is just as scary. You aim carefully before you get brave.
Yep that what I’ve wanted to build. How much
I want this set up with AWD like the cop car 5.7 AWD .
I want that car I owned 4 of them love those cars
This is what these cars should of had from the factory. V-8 rear wheel drive. There'd be more of them still running around if they did.
Very Cool...
Obviously the hemi wasn't available back then but this car should have been rwd with A 360 in it.
I agree with you there!😁👍✨
That is to sweet, I had a 88 Shelby Z, I would love to own that, and cmon guys stop acting so scary🤦🏾♂️😒😂😂😂
I remember this car at a local car meet .epic!!
Cool and different brother
I’m looking to buy a 1989-1991 dodge Daytona Shelby. Anyone have one for sale?
Can you provide any I formation on this conversion? I have a 92 Daytona and want to look at my options. Can you put me in touch with whoever did the work?
I have my 89 Daytona.
Me too. Doing a 2.4 swap and paint as money allows it. Waiting for my $850 harness from Kinetic Kreations
The unfortunate problem with putting a longitudinal engine and transmission into a front wheel drive car is that the engine is mounted forward of the front wheels which teeter totters the weight off of the rear wheels. The only way to get it to hook up would be to tub it out with big monster slicks. It is a much overlooked fact that rear wheel drive cars are actually mid-engined...just a front-mid as opposed to a rear-mid.
But its still a fun project and cool, clean setup.
Uh. No.
Okay, I will challenge you to study stuff under the hood of rear wheel drive cars. Note the relation of the strut towers to the engine position. Note the overhang of the front facia of a front drive car to a rear wheel drive car. You can use google images to do all of this and you *will* notice a pattern. Then, any of us who played on a teeter totter on the playground as a kid should be able to understand the physics involved. Post a link here to an image of an originally rear wheel drive car where the strut towers are not much more forward of the bulk of the engine. Unless the car has something stupid like 60 degrees of caster, what I say about the engine position relative to the front wheels is true.
Look, and find proof of me being wrong as opposed to just assuming about something you never paid attention to before. A crown vic, lexus gs, mustang, BMW, Charger/challenger, rear drive based Jeeps, etc. They all have much steeper approach angles with the front wheels moved farther forward relative to the engine position.
Lots of nope, for a car to be “mid engined” the engine has to be 100% between the wheels. Corvettes, S2000s, some Mercedes, and a hand full of other cars are front mid engined. You flat out said “it is a much overlooked fact that rear wheel drive cars are actually mid-engined..” Thats the statement I was the mind numbingly stupid one.
Now, as to the engine of this car being too far forward because it used to be FWD. Nope. The engine is in a pretty good place for such a huge engine to fit in a relatively small engine bay. It is definitely not 100% hanging off of the front axel, and it has enough weight in the rear. The problem is OVER 500 HP and 225 tires in a lightweight car.....
ooh! that 914! were baby max wedge swapping our boxter turbo s. the porsche motor will get rebuilt and put into... ?? your 914 perhaps? idk...
Things friggin scary
@Zack&Wyatt build video would be nice. Have Rory upload it
Needs I nice set of wheels and tires
Who made that car because I want to do the exact same thing to my car
They would have had to have been on another platform, as they were K-car based. But yeah, they would have been total badasses if Iacocca came up with a rear wheel drive idea for them.
You have been able to buy a rwd conversion kit from mopar since the mid 80s
There should've been a rear-wheel drive version of the K-Car platform called the K-FR.😂
So the rear clip is from a challenger, what did he use for the K frame?
This thing is just crazy .. specially when i saw this car at pasadena Ca .
Now have someone ride in the hatch haha
What it always should have been!
Hey, can't go wrong with a hemi had one Daytona 2.2 VNT. Probably too late to say Why don't you bump start it Instead of using the ignition. Anyways wicked car
i have a 91 dodge daytona es and there’s a knocking noise and i’m not sure what it is
Builder's name, please. Rory something Saw him at Bob's in Toluca lake some years ago. thx.
So you never say how fast you had it up to. When I was in high school we were putting small block v8 in pinto chevettes and Vegas . I would own and daily drive this car.
I would gladly drive the heck out of those other cars this one is different. Maybe because the owner scared me in it before. it was the fastest rolling burnout I have been in.
What was top speed ? I rode in a turbo z front wheel drive in FL at 124 mph with a guy who had been drinking so I know fear.
I don’t remember how its geared but it just spins in every gear.
I want the Shelby version to be converted like this car
At 9:30 when they are Doing the exhaust clip I'm expecting there to be like a challenger just out of frame because there's no way that cars making that sound.