A Camaro That Leaves A Wake

Artana Niveus Corvum writes "I came across this entirely at random, but it seems like someone with too much time on his hands has taken an old idea and improved on it... and come up with something truly unique and cool: a car based on a 2002 Camaro body with a Subaru WRX Turbo engine (300 horsepower) capable of going over 125MPH that doubles as a boat capable of going over 40MPH."

Comments

Re:But what is the price?

[saiha]

Just to let you know, he actually is building more of them to sell, no price was listed that I could see. Although maybe its probably if you have to ask, its too much.

carboats are stupid

[GoClick]

Car Boat crosses are neither original or good. They fail as cars and as boats.

They generally have VERY poor on water performance especially considering for the price of building one of these monstrosities you could have a sports car and a sport boat. Considering the engine on that thing, the boat performance aspect of it is awful it's not even close to being fast for a water craft and it's not even the worlds fastest car boat cross either, not even close, try 80mph but I digress he gave it a good shot.

Car boat crosses then to be very unsafe on land at higher speeds because the hull shape forces air down and builds a bow wave of air making the front end unstable causing at least poor searing response and at worst roll overs and swerving.

This is just a waste of a good car and some boat parts and a whole lot of time. Considering no one's time is free even the cheapest moron with a car could buy a crappy boat working at McDonald's in less time and then he'll have a boat and a car and people won't laugh at him on and off water.

Just FYI my Sea-Doo does over 40mph on water and seats 3 instead of two.

Re:carboats are stupid

[j-turkey]

You seem to be somewhat less intelligent than the carboat... Camaros have 4 seats, not 2, and this carboat, which is a custom design and not a converted camaro, also has 4 seats...If you won't even look at the website before posting your trash talk, try some STFU instead.

He doesn't need to read the site to understand that a carboat is a technically lame idea. It is unable to perform as well as either a car or a boat. What's wrong with that assessment? If I put together a website about a cluster of 10 Commodore 64's running Apache -- you could say (without even reading the website) that the Pentium II 400 in your basement will run circles around that POS. Get over yourself buddy -- and maybe before posting your trash talk, try some common courtesy instead.

Re:But what is the price?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they want it to last for more than 10,000 miles? Just guessing.

Re:125 .... we need to set a theshhold.

[PoderOmega]

I love it when people do 1xx MPH in their stock focus/caviliar/civic... come on people just cause the stock engine can do it doesn't mean the stock TIRES can. That's right people, nobody ever thinks of the TIRES. Would someone please think OF THE TIRES!!?

Packaging and weight...

[Fallen Kell]

Seriously. The Subaru 2.5 liter STi engine has the most horsepower for its size/weight ratio in its size class. You are talking about 120 HP per liter, in a 4 cylinder engine, which it freaking MONSTROUS! There are many V8's out there that do not put out that much horsepower!

Only wonder why they wouldn't remove the standard twinscroll turbo and setup a twin turbo setup and gain another 70-150 HP. Its not like there isn't the room in the Camaro engine bay to fit that type of setup. It is one of the only reasons why the Impreza STi doesn't have a TT, because it takes up so much space that other parts would need to be completely redesigned (i.e. no room for the top mount intercooler, so it would need to be front mounted, the water enjection cooling on the intercooler would need to be removed, as well as the windshield wiper pump/resevoir, etc., which on a street/road car, you will need the windshield wiper fluid). I also believe that they have an issue with the 6 spd transmission which runs the STi being able to handle that much extra HP/torque (especially considering people are blowing the transmission with the stock 300HP setup if they drive it hard), let alone the tranny being able to handle the extra 150HP a good twin turbo setup would give you.

I am surprised they wouldn't do alcohol injection or NOS injection to thin the fuel mix and gain 30-50HP. Alcohol would be the easiest and cheapest. The stock engine has already been hardened for alcohol, all that would be needed is the resivoir, pump, hoses and you are good to go.

It is an interesting idea...

Not quite ready...?

[bobmatnyc]

Odd that none of the videos on the site show transitions. The shot of the car driving into the water fades into a full speed shot, and the video of the car driving out never shows it with panels down...

YES!

[Hagakure]

Hopefully the Dead Milkmen will get workin' on

FISHIN' CAMARO!

this comment dedicated to Dave Blood, RIP

Re:Now with better non breaking transmission?

[All Names Have Been]

I test drive a lot of cars just for the hell of it. Dealers let you get away with anything if you pull up in a nice enough car..

Anyhoo .. My first drive of an STi (WRX on meth) led to a tow truck after the turbo self-destructed while under heavy acceleration. Oil starvation was the post mortem analysis (duh). Metal shavings (!!) clogged one of the oil passages was the claim. Ouch. That being said, however, it was a fun car to drive if you can deal with the lag. And expensive metallic sounds.

And don't even get me started on my long walk when the S2000 I was test driving several years ago broke a strut mount while doing some (admittedly!) serious cornering. The salemen said I could autocross it. Yeah.