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Here’s what hope looks like, wrought from carbon fiber. The Bisimoto 935 K3V has no internal-combustion heartbeat, but it’ll still quicken the pulse of the most hidebound enthusiast. This car sports a shape from Porsche’s late-Seventies
By contrast, the 935 K3V, created by Bisimoto in Ontario, California, is a lightning bolt from the built-not-bought crowd. Beneath its body panels, pulled from original Kremer K3 molds, lurks the skeleton of a 1984 Porsche 911 Carrera, but almost everything inside has been gutted out and custom-made. The livery, designed by artist Andy Blackmore, is a tribute to racer Tetsu Ikuzawa, Porsche’s only Japanese factory driver.
As testament, Bisimoto once built the fastest front-wheel-drive car in the world. Ezerioha set or broke record after record with all-motor CRXs, then moved into turbocharging. He built a 1000-hp Honda Odyssey minivan. A decade ago, he bought a 1976 Porsche 930, stripped it bare, and built it up around a Mezger twin-turbo 3.4-liter flat-six good for a reliable 850 hp.
An old Porsche is an ideal candidate for the drivetrain of the future. In a battery-electric vehicle, putting the motor on the drive axle allows for better efficiency and direct power transfer, so an old-fashioned rear-engine layout is no longer an outdated concept. However, no 911 axle or hub will stand up to modern levels of electric torque, and after pretzeling several axles, Bisimoto fitted custom parts to support the drivetrain.
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