Fastest Car for under $15k

[christophv]

here in germany you can get 90's Mercedes-Benz E500 Engines (> 320HP) for 3000-6000€, swap it in an 80's W123 (1300kg, RWD, 2000€) and turbocharge it (4000€-5000€) and there you go with maybe 450hp, V8 and 1300kg RWD

hm otherwise, I'd go with the DSM.
F-Body is also nice in performance, but the looks suck imho.
If you go for an F-Body, take the extreme way and turbocharge it

[Hypsi87]

I hopw you guys realize that of all the cars mentiond the most, (LS1, 5.0, WS-6, DSM) T-type like z28 josh said, would eat all of them for dinner.

Slicks,
Alcohol kit
boot controller

mid 12's for under 800 bucks.

price of the car, roughly around 5k

If you wanted a GN. go spend about 10K and put the other five in it to make the ultimate 10 sec sleeper.

You could put the 5K into a t-type/turbo T and have the same kick ass setup,

[JohnC24]

can you find the E500 here in the states cheap???

[pitbullgst]

15 grand would make alot of cars fast as hell. really depends on if you can do some of the work.

fc or fb rx7 and deluxe v8 swap kit would cost under 3 grand. a 500 hp v8 for around 4500, built race tranny for another 2 grand and a bolt in rear end for 1 grand.

a little over ten grand and that is a ten second car if you use a fc.

also the dsm's only got crankwalk in the 7 bolt versions. 6 bolt motors had no problems of this. find a 1992 1/2 or earlier dsm and you don't have to worry about it. and i don't know why the one guy paid so much for his motor. you can buy the 2.3 stroker pro built for 3 grand a shep spec tranny for 2-3 grand, 1 grand on some race heads and the rest on mods. would kill most cars.

I myself always look for cars were the motor or tranny is shit so i don't have to pay for something i am going to replace with performance parts anyway.