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Originally Posted by bluecivichybrid
wow, that's an awesome biodiesel car. french fry smell? that's not a downside!  wonder how much it would sell for.
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The kit costs about $24,000 ish (if you can find one). A brand new TDI engine is $3 K. I don't know how much the AC electric engine cost (more info is here:
http://www.penn-partners.org/evteam/attack.htm). I've been thinking about putting it together with the TDI engine, running biodiesel, and forgoing the electric component. The problem is I live in Dallas and there's a lot of hot cars around, so I wouldn't mind being able to "smoke 'em" in short bursts and let them smell my french fry exhaust. But I like the style, and biodiesel potential, more than the 300 hp part.
I'm actively looking for a K-1 Attack kit to do this with. I'm not sure K-1 is still selling kits anymore, though. Their website just has turnkey cars on it now.
For the about price of a decked out Prius (and 2000 hours of labor) or a Honda Accord Hybrid, you could have a supercar.