Just what is possible and not possible when it comes to building cars? The sky is the limit my friend it's within the realm of possibility to do pretty much anything you damn well please. Examples have been given to us over and over again that you can put what ever engine in whatever car you want. Like the "Civ-Vette" video below. A Honda Civic with a Chevrolet Corvette engine. Ignore the blasphemy first and just think about the pure awesome that thing is.
A few years ago, before all this Fast and Furious stuff, mentioning carbon fiber to a regular person might have been met with an eyebrow that seemed to say, "Quoi (what in French)." Now everybody knows what that magical black/grey/red/blue/etc. sheet is. Its strength and versatility is unquestionable, but how much of a car can be made from it. If supercars and race cars are any evidence of this, everything can be made form it. I do mean everything. Doors, hoods, seats. This excludes all the other things that are made from carbon fiber like boats, planes and toilets. That's right. Toilets. Aston Martin is just another example of, "I may have seen it before, but that sure is sexy." Aston Martin has entered the Hyper-car market with its One-77 car. Guess what? It's going to use carbon fiber, a lot. Check out the link and see if you can find an inch that doesn't have the wonderful thread on it.
One-77 - http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/06/aston-martin-one-77-uncovered-in-depth-on-whats-under-the-skin/
Racing products make it onto the street all the time. We've got splitters, FUNCTIONAL body kits, performance upgrades that would make Micheal Andretti blush and all kinds of other dress up items to make heads turn more than Heidi Klum dressed in a thread of yarn. Sorry, no picture of that.
The performance insanity doesn't stop at cramming engines into cars that don't belong there. There are actually engines that come in cars that can be modded themselves and then are able to defeat much more powerful cars. Unbeleivable, I know. The guys from RiceKiller.com have a video posted on StreetFire.net that evokes feelings of disbelief among people like, well, me. The evidence is there none-the-less. A itty bitty Acura Integra beats a Cadillac CTS-V. Allow me to remind you that the CTS-V is the Cadillac with the Corvette engine. Now that that's sunk in watch the video below and have your brain scrambled.
Integra v. CTS-V - http://videos.streetfire.net/video/RICEKILLERCOM-Budget-VS_638166.htm
You may have already seen somthing like that. Whether you've seen giant killers before doesn't make it any less amazing, to me anyway. The accelereation (pun intended) of the car world has been staggering. When I discuss future mods to my own car with my buddy on many an occasion he seems to be of the ilk of impossibility. Usually, I convince him that it is possible and we continue to be friends. I cannot join the band of nay sayers on countless car forums that have the standard response to any remotely outlandish idea of, "Not possible." I say, "No" to them. I refuse to live in a closed box world where I can't cram an oversized engine into a $200 Civic and can't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a car that is made of carbon fiber. The answer to the question is always, "Yes."
No matter how crazy an idea, no matter how impractical, it it's for a car and it's cool then it's possible. Do it.
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