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November 25, 2009
Factory 5 Does Diesel TDi-Style
Atomicalex
Mark Smith of Factory 5 (yes, that Mark Smith) popped up on the Car Lounge asking about fitments for turbo kits on the Volkswagen VR6. Turns out, he’s plotting a mid-engined kit based on the VW MkIV (Golf, Jetta, GTI, and presumably New Beetle) platform. He didn’t start with the VR6 - he started with the TDi, VW’s turbodiesel lump. There’s a more serious build thread going on over at tdiclub.com. This has the fixin’s to be the new cool VW kit, reminiscent of days when you could slap a kit over a Type 1 (Beetle) chassis and have yourself a new car. I might just have to hold on to my Diesel MkIV for a bit longer, as I’d love to have all that torque behind me, rather than in front, especially for the sub-$20K pricetag Mark is talking about.
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BEVANS702
Nov 26, 2009 at 7:35 am
One thing I do know about FFR it will not be based off your assumptions. It will be a solid based machine built from the principles the company is founded on. Bet ya this project if not a new design will be to compliment their current line of do-it-yourself builds. Oh by the way shrinking the GTM 200 (http://www.factoryfive.com/gtmhome.html) to resemble a VW is just wrong!
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I_luv_dusty
Nov 25, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Holy crap, if the kit ends up looking like that picture, I might actually have to turn into a VW guy!