The rear end is a live axle with the engine/transmission mounted directly to it, meaning this thing has more unsprung mass than a bra-less Dolly Parton. Just in case you took a look at the engine and thought - that’s cool, but will it handle? - let’s take a closer look. It pumps out something in the realm of 162 horsepower and should be awesome mated to the belt driven CVT in a 1000 lb Yugo. The Thundercat engine dates from the era of insanity in snowmobiles - it is a 2-stroke fuel belching monster from the black tar lagoon. What has happened here is a 900 cc snowmobile inline-3 from an Artic Cat Thundercat has been shoved into the back of the Yugo. When the game isn’t on, you’ve got dudes with nothing to do and access to welding equipment. This is what happens in the frozen northern states during the winter months. As your leave Mr Fancy Pants in your wildly resonating rear view mirror the engine note does not change with RPM like a regular car but it drones on like a chain saw stuck in a prosthetic leg. Your right foot hammers the throttle pedal and the racket of 10,000 marbles being poured into a wood chipper emanates from the exhaust exit. It’s just a Yugo, you tell the guy with the new sports coupe in the lane next to yours. Find this 1987 Yugo GV with 900cc Snowmobile Power currently bidding for $1,350 on eBay, located in Fremont, OH with 2 days to go. Rip out that 50ish horsepower 4-banger and replace it with a 160 hp two-stroke mated to a CVT from an Artic Cat snowmobile. The only way you are going to pull a Yugo from the depths of shame is by going full Renée Zellweger on it. Its cool…but I’d rather have an F-body Camaro… No. The Serbian built Yugo GV was such an miserably disgraceful excuse for an automobile that even swapping in a LS1 would leave you with a feeling of meh.
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