Factory Five Racing's 818 Kit Car is a rear-wheel-drive, Subaru powered beast. I stopped by Go Green Automotive to check out two that are currently being built.
im a student i have done a kit car for my college project with a 38 hp engine . the car weights mere 400kg and i know what can power to weight ratio can really do . so yea this car will pump your adrenaline
Looks like a lot of fun to drive. With the turbo engine installed you're talking Rally car performance. Keeping that in mind, I'm wondering how this car would perform in a 4wd configuration (like a Rally car).... My '93 Mustang drag car has a power to weight ratio of 4.8:1 NA (647hp @ 3,100lbs.)and would run 10's all day. (It's on my channel for all the naysayers) So to have this kind of power/weight ratio in a street car that can turn corners is awesome.
so they haven't sorted out the suspension? "optimised" cars don't "oversteer...then understeer...then oversteer." Did you do an alignment and corner weights?
With a boxer engine, that looks like its almost right above the rear wheels, what makes it mid-engine and not rear engine? Seems to me like it should be classified as rear engine instead of mid, no?
The axle is behind the motor, thus it is mid-engine. If you look at a rear-engine car (Volks 311, Porsche 911, Corvair) the engine is behind the rear axle with the driveshaft crossing forward to the transaxle. Rear engine is really back there. Mid is best for handling, though Porsche seems to figure it out regardless.
I would love to build one of these but for one problem. ZERO LUGGAGE SPACE. For me, my "fun" car has to have daily driver capability and without luggage space this just will not do. I'm a driver. I don't want a trailer queen and I'm not doing any racing, don't have the space for it. Its a shame cuz ffr makes a GTM and that car shares the same problem, no luggage space.
This kit is only made for the impreza/wrx model years mentioned. Anything outside of that will require added fabrication and modifications to the chassis and electronics
Putting one together is easy! Getting into it to drive it, well..... LOL I know what your saying though. Same problem here. Not fun trying to operate 3 tiny pedals with a size 15 1/2 either. Jamming the brake in every time you push the clutch in. Fun times!!! LOL
SVX engine (a touch heavier).... slap a blower on it. Eat everything else? Even keep in N/A and bore it out with cams etc, huge potential with this platform.
Few things to consider, its not 10K .. You will want to add a powder coated frame, Wipers & a hand full of other things.. I would call it 11K.. The new 818C is so bad ass !!
I guess it’s just peculiar to me, but I don’t want the convertible version as my track car, I would want the full enclosed coupe with full cage. Not crazy about open cockpit cars.
SelectCircle 14.4 lbs per hp! thats pretty good considering a subaru 2.5 rs has 24.128lbs per hp! so with the wrx turbo engine this car has making 300 hp that would be 6lbs per hp vs 10lbs per hp! understand that raw horsepower doesnt mean everything! weight has a huge part to do with it!
im a student i have done a kit car for my college project with a 38 hp engine . the car weights mere 400kg and i know what can power to weight ratio can really do . so yea this car will pump your adrenaline
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The industry has come a long way from slapping F-40 body panels onto a Fiero...
im a student i have done a kit car for my college project with a 38 hp engine . the car weights mere 400kg and i know what can power to weight ratio can really do . so yea this car will pump your adrenaline
My 2011 Subaru Legacy 2.5L has 170 hp and it moves a 4400 lb. car well enough. Drop that engine into a 2-seat kit car, WOW!
Looks like a lot of fun to drive. With the turbo engine installed you're talking Rally car performance.
Keeping that in mind, I'm wondering how this car would perform in a 4wd configuration (like a Rally car)....
My '93 Mustang drag car has a power to weight ratio of 4.8:1 NA (647hp @ 3,100lbs.)and would run 10's all day. (It's on my channel for all the naysayers)
So to have this kind of power/weight ratio in a street car that can turn corners is awesome.
Thats Awesome!!
Ill be at APEX/ SEMA this year and I look forward to seeing this!
Come find us. I'll be the guy with the beard.
I'll be the guy looking like eurojax.
I like how the guy says you can't touch 11-12s quarter miles for 45k... This isn't 1992 anymore dude...
you can do it for 5k
I have a 2013 STI. Do have a version of this kit that I can use with these parts?
My GC8 2.5rs weighed 2960 with me in it and full interior. Still a good 1000lbs heavier but it is for sure not over 3k
What if yo put a 800HP 07 STI engine in it with the standard gearbox
Awesome!!!!
I have two questions can you use automatic and can you use any motor/transmission?
Can they take the parts from '18 sti?
So many people who don't understand power to weight ratio commenting...
+Spam Can Along those lines, i think the greatest thing i ever saw was a mazda miata with a 5.0L ford engine.
+Spam Can 125hp wouldn't make it extremely fast, it'll be quick. The 200+hp, yea that will be extremely fast =D
Sigma Projects yea like imagine a sti motor in one it would be a rocket.
so they haven't sorted out the suspension? "optimised" cars don't "oversteer...then understeer...then oversteer." Did you do an alignment and corner weights?
Chris Stavro it was first time the car was driven im sure that once they do alignments and suspension valving it will do just fine!
Some clueless children on here with no concept of power to weight ratio.
nice nice nice!
neat!
With a boxer engine, that looks like its almost right above the rear wheels, what makes it mid-engine and not rear engine? Seems to me like it should be classified as rear engine instead of mid, no?
The axle is behind the motor, thus it is mid-engine. If you look at a rear-engine car (Volks 311, Porsche 911, Corvair) the engine is behind the rear axle with the driveshaft crossing forward to the transaxle. Rear engine is really back there. Mid is best for handling, though Porsche seems to figure it out regardless.
I would love to build one of these but for one problem. ZERO LUGGAGE SPACE. For me, my "fun" car has to have daily driver capability and without luggage space this just will not do. I'm a driver. I don't want a trailer queen and I'm not doing any racing, don't have the space for it. Its a shame cuz ffr makes a GTM and that car shares the same problem, no luggage space.
+rpols22
what you're talking about is a GT--grand touring car. This is a low cost high performance car, ever heard of
the Ariel Atom?
Would it be possible to do a turbo hyabusa motor instead of the Subaru motor in this kit ?
This kit is only made for the impreza/wrx model years mentioned. Anything outside of that will require added fabrication and modifications to the chassis and electronics
Why can't you use a 2018 Subaru Impreza and is there a model with a roof on or no
Yea Factory 5 kit cars. They have a hard top for $24,000 plus donor.
the sky and your wallet
doesn't the 2.5RS have more than 125hp? Or does he mean at the wheels?
+Minoltalphafan To the wheels for sure. My 2001 RS 2.5 is at 97 horsepower now. :S
One problem! Not everybody is five feet two and ways only 110 lbs. Be nice of someone would build a car we big guys could put together.
5'9" and 200. No issues. I have heard of some folk over 6' having to use the newer fuel tank and move the seat back.
I'm 6 ft 5 and 290 but I love little and want something like this
Putting one together is easy! Getting into it to drive it, well.....
LOL
I know what your saying though. Same problem here. Not fun trying to operate 3 tiny pedals with a size 15 1/2 either. Jamming the brake in every time you push the clutch in. Fun times!!! LOL
SVX engine (a touch heavier).... slap a blower on it. Eat everything else? Even keep in N/A and bore it out with cams etc, huge potential with this platform.
The EG33 doesn't fit, mate... I had that exact idea too, but it's a nope.
Few things to consider, its not 10K .. You will want to add a powder coated frame, Wipers & a hand full of other things.. I would call it 11K.. The new 818C is so bad ass !!
I guess it’s just peculiar to me, but I don’t want the convertible version as my track car, I would want the full enclosed coupe with full cage. Not crazy about open cockpit cars.
Price in INR please?
Any plans for an h6 build?
It's been done, it's a tight fit. Check out Wayne's H6 818S.
wait it goes from awd to rwd? is they're anyaway to keep it awd
Nope
Not Boston, Wareham
there out of wareham mass not boston
Anyone does this build as a job?
Go kart on steroids haha. Haven't heard of 250cc twin cylinder super karts have you?
1min in sold buying :)
No air conditioning... No thanks. I'll get that awesome Mazda MX5
um i want to drop my 450hp ej25 in this....
It's too bad they don't have a V8 option because the Subaru Boxer engine sounds horrible to me! It sound like the engine has a miss.
Its the unequal length headers. If you put equal lengths on you gain better scavenging, better sound, and more torque
ha! subaru engines easy to modify??? compared to what? a w16?, clearly not compared to a honda i4
For $45k I'll buy a 996 turbo, thanks.
this is 15k built
Put a WRX motor in a porsche Boxster and save yourself 15K.
haha have fun taking this over a hill at 100mph
All that work for only 125 hp? ... Futility.
Final specs were ~300 hp. Wat.
SelectCircle 14.4 lbs per hp! thats pretty good considering a subaru 2.5 rs has 24.128lbs per hp! so with the wrx turbo engine this car has making 300 hp that would be 6lbs per hp vs 10lbs per hp! understand that raw horsepower doesnt mean everything! weight has a huge part to do with it!
Nelly Nelson This car might send a thrill up the leg of a math geek - but real men want horses. : )
SelectCircle Having ridden in the thing, you're so off base it's not even funny.
TJ Kleven Climb inside your clothes dryer and take a fun ride too. And still we want raw power.
It’s just out there , not realistic at all
For $45.000 I can make a better and faster car
+Alex T Good for you. Luckily you could build a car like this for probably $15k, not 45.
The factory five kit itself is around $12,000. Y'all need to come back to reality.
45k is for them to build you the car but its under 20k if you do all the labor yourself
WTF non turbo ? Subaru spent millions on engineering the Impreza + ugly
I'd rather build an Exocet
Cool but just buy the 50k c8
Or buy the model 3
Yeah but this is under 25k if you build it yourself and building it yourself is half the fun
@@brett9382 ever look at average time to build ? It’s like 800 hours
More fucking pollution in the air and noise !!!!
+Luis Guillermo Diaz Orellana since you hate cars why are you watching a video about cars?
^great, more pollution on youtube and noise!
im a student i have done a kit car for my college project with a 38 hp engine . the car weights mere 400kg and i know what can power to weight ratio can really do . so yea this car will pump your adrenaline