With the variety of wild machinery we’ve featured here, you wouldn’t think that a Volkswagen Lupo would be a worthy addition to this blog. But this build is too crazy to not be considered. And if you think this car was built in some high-dollar shop, know that Petar built this car in his garage, on his own.
From the factory, the high performance version of this 975 kilogram city car is fitted with a 1.6 liter 123 horsepower four. Clearly not enough for this builder and for most of us. But the rest of us wouldn’t resort to putting two VR6 204 hp engines on opposite ends of the car and then adding 100-hp nitrous shots - to both engines.
After gutting and then test fitting the engines to the car, Petar set about strengthening the body by adding a rollcage. The rear engine is mounted on a modified Golf subframe and a combination of VW parts are utilized to make a successful conversion. For example, the left front driveshaft is from a Polo Tdi and the right is a shortened Golf Mk4 driveshaft. Golf Mk2 control arms and Golf Mk3 hubs are then used for the OZ Racing wheels to mount onto.
Solid front engine mounts are used, the front engine’s alternator has been removed to create space and twin front radiators are used to cool one engine each. The quality of the fabrication and homebrew engineering is amazing and there are too many other fabrication details to list. Brakes are from a Porsche Cayenne, and KW was quick to provide sponsorship for a set of custom coilovers after seeing this incredible build. Horsepower calculations reveal that this car’s power-to-weight ratio surpasses even those of the most exotic supercars.
It’s very inspiring to see home brew builds like these because it shows that inspiration and creativity go a long way towards having a car no one else in the world has. It helps of course if you have some fabrication and engineering skills, which this builder obviously has in spades.
Build thread can be found here.
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