A mate of mine got a 2.0 Saab Turbo in back, RWD, its a F*****G Animal!!!
Afew of you may of seen it PVS?
White one, bit shabby lookin?
A mate of mine got a 2.0 Saab Turbo in back, RWD, its a F*****G Animal!!!
Afew of you may of seen it PVS?
White one, bit shabby lookin?
amazingly, mk1/2 escort stuff is quite a close match, but expensive..
the bmw stuff will be too long & too wide for a std shell, so you'd need to widen it.
so best bet is probably get a bmw donor, cut the top off it, shorten it to suit & get the prop & brake lines modified, and then lower the top of a nova onto it..then get some wide arches.
as for AWD, people have done this with calibra turbo stuff. fair amount of head scratching & hard work, but look at longdogcharlies thread in projects to see how its done.
Rather than trying to work out what Powertrain to use, are you actually capable of the fabrication work required to do the task?
im a welder by trade so fabrication wont be to much of a problem just the rest of it iv got some mates that do auto electrics and working on performance motors so between us we should be ok
wouldn't a mx5 running gear be close enough?
Maybe E30?