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Yes, the creative minds at Charnal House machined a fitting between the bike’s output sprocket and the input shaft of the Metro transmission, which was left over from the MetSHO build. If you’re wondering how one transmits power to two wheels from a motorcycle transmission, this is the biggest hint: An A-6 Intruder throttle quadrant houses the motorcycle transmission’s sequential shifter while on the floor, the blue-knobbed shifter rows the gears in a Geo Metro five-speed transaxle. Because of the car’s minuscule nature, the suicide doors also carry part of the modified Fiat 500 fender flares that were necessary after adding wheels that, unlike the original ones, weren’t lifted directly from a lawncare implement. Getting in and out of the car, now a one-seater, is a bit of chore. They also replaced the sheet metal on the floor, which had at some point been kludged with aluminum siding.

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It’s likely the most expensive thing on the car.ĭespite not using it for racing duties, Charnal House built a full cage for the car, not in the least to add some much-needed structural integrity to the wafer-thin Japanese metal. If you know where to look, you’ll find junkyard parts from donors as varied as the Pontiac Fiero, Daewoo Leganza, Ford Taurus, Ford Contour, Volkswagen Golf, Honda Prelude, Volkswagen Jetta, and more.Īs they approached completion, the Charnal House perpetrators coined the build the “Firebug” and splurged on a fittingly 1990s No Fear-style graphic for the air intake. The build thread details the complexity of constructing on a threadbare budget using primarily creativity. The build got bogged down a few times, but it never went away and as early as 2013, the 360-which Crab Spirits coined a “ Rolex watch made from garbage”-ran a bit. They ditched the original 22-horsepower two-stroke engine for the 150-horsepower engine from a low-sided and salvaged Honda CBR954RR Fireblade. Undeterred, they pressed on to re-engineer the 360 as a completely insane street car. However, the series’ Fun Police added a minimum 82-inch wheelbase to the rules in 2012 that rendered the Subaru illegal for racing. Inspired by the insane Geo Metro Gnome, Charnal House originally intended to race the unholy amalgamation in LeMons. It’s no huge secret that Charnal House builder “Crab Spirits” (You should know his junkyard tirades on The Truth About Cars) has spearheaded the work on the bike-powered Subaru for nearly five years with his Charnal House compatriots, but he brought the recently completed 360 to October’s 24 Hours of LeMons race at Autobahn Country Club near Chicago. LeMons regulars probably know of Charnal House’s “ Geo MetSHO,” a mid-engined Geo Metro that features the high-revving-Notice a pattern?- Yamaha V6 from an early Ford Taurus SHO and a remarkable cocktail of junkyard engineering. A 150-horsepower microcar that revs to 12,000 RPM? Why yes, you would like to learn more. Naturally, we did indeed find exactly that in the LeMons paddock in Charnal House Racing’s ferociously tiny Honda CBR954RR-powered Subaru 360. Seldom does one find a car both cute and incredibly terrifying, but if ever one were to find such a vehicle, the 24 Hours of LeMons’ paddock would be the place to find it.