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It's time for another installment in the Mental Metros engine-swap series. Have you ever driven a Geo Metro and wished that the passenger seat was replaced with a screaming Honda CBR sportbike motor? Most people do, but Team MetroGnome actually made it a reality. Is it fast? Is it noisy? Is a chain-drive Lemons car a good idea? Maybe!
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[@Levibetz]

My favorite Geo MetroGnome fact is that it lapped Laguna Seca faster than Jeremy Clarkson in a Honda NSX.

[@CasualGearheads]

Clarkson on Playstation or Clarkson in real life? :D

[@TheRedbeardpirate]

Next they should put the 900 back in the front for dual engine all wheel drive dominance!

[@trevorthomas6043]

Where would they mount the gas tank

[@Johnathan.David.Trewhitt.]

pull another metro behind?

[@szymonchlebicki4606]

@@Johnathan.David.Trewhitt. on the roof, its fu**ing obvious

[@Buck_Plankchest]

@@trevorthomas6043 Use it as the bottom of the driver seat! Duh.

[@samiraperi467]

@@trevorthomas6043 Behind the driver?

[@bump_draft]

The engineering creativity that went into that thing was just off the charts. Vendler and crew made something truly special and it made me smile every time it buzzed past at 10,000rpm.

[@JoeKerman]

I love these videos that zoom in on little parts of lemon culture! Its hard to keep up with what everyone else is doing, even if you are at the race!

[@lorinmueller4102]

You guys nailed the entertainment factor on this one.

[@CrabSpirits]

This car was the inspiration for the stillborn Charnal House Firebug. After street driving that car, I can't even imagine driving it a full stint on track while suited. These things are loud, HOT, laboring to drive, and the vibration is tuned to a brain wavelength akin to experiencing a battlefield next to a heavy machine gun.

[@ghomerhust]

i love motorcycle swapped tiny cars. theres always the GSX-R swapped Smart, that thing runs like 10s in the quarter and sounds amazing! does some pretty sweet donuts too

[@wolfsworkshop9095]

I would love to make a busa swap fiat 500/126, just because of the engine sound alone

[@quillmaurer6563]

4:37 When they include that bouncing lawn mower clip First time: That's pretty funny Fourth time: Meh 48485828th time: ROFLOL!!! Something else I'd like to see would be more weird Prius conversions, just because that is so against all that the Prius stands for (I say this as a former owner of one). I recall someone once Harley V-Twin swapped a Prius for Lemons, that was pretty good.

[@SamCyanide]

What's the original called

[@quillmaurer6563]

@@SamCyanide The bouncing lawnmower clip? No idea.

[@pyrofytr1]

I loved driving that car! Wish I would have purchased it from Alex.

[@ZerotheWanderer]

Has anyone done a widebody Metro with some sort of V6 in the back (Renault Clio V6/Shogun)?

[@aleksanderpopov5060]

These videos just make my day every time!!!

[@gielamonster]

got another overall win at Thunderhill in 2011 - "Geo Players Special"

[@GR1MRACER]

Needs to be in Forza.

[@ghomerhust]

someone needs to do a Gran Turismo or Forza style game but its nothing but hoopties, and you can stick stuff like "park bench" rear spoilers on, and swap harley v-twins into priuses... id totally buy that game, and play for years

[@kasuraga]

This is why I LOVE motorcycle swapped cars haha. They just sound sooooo damn good.

[@fredygump5578]

I think there should be a value deduction based on weld quality...measured in porosity per square inch. Did y'all see those welds on the suspension mount???? (Also, 1,459,253th. Because that number isn't taken yet...suckers!)

[@carpetsomething]

Love how the subtitles at 1:31 where its just engine noise say "music"

[@willjunkin732]

That thang is awesome

[@beezball]

I adore this.

[@TediI47]

it sounds fucking rad

[@cliftonsheldon9134]

From someone who has built many superbike powered race cars like forumla 1000 and sport racers I can attest small bike powered cars are insanely fast and bike motors are f-n sweet

[@mtnman1984]

The layout reminds me of a shifter cart

[@drdremd]

Awesome

[@AmaroqStarwind]

Does the $500 cost cap reset when you're upgrading an existing LeMons car, as long as the upgrades are incremental?

[@lesklower7281]

In Australia these are the Suzuki Cino and we got them with a 1.3litre four cylinder motor and there was the GTI which was a faster one and there was somebody in Australia who built a all wheel drive Suzuki GTI

[@fearlessshadow5856]

Could we get a documentary on the guys and gal behind LeMons

[@notenoughram3312]

nice car

[@bastholio]

Oh damn, i want one to daily ...

[@richieb7692]

With a bit of work, the Suzuki Hyabusa engine can either have a turbo or nitrous added. That would make the straights a bit more fun.

[@puttitat2851]

Third wasn't taken!

[@petergriffin4629]

I wonder why there aren't more motorcycle swaps. Like a Yamaha vmax smart Roadster! That would be an absolute weapon

[@be4tnl]

so.. why didn't they use the rear wheel parts from a subaru justy? it's the same car but with awd

[@CasualGearheads]

I don't think Justy's rear diff can take the power and abuse. Besides, even Justy parts would have to be heavily modified to work with the motorcycle engine. Plus, we have many more Justies in Europe, it's not as common in the 'states.

[@RayleighCriterion]

They should make a Metro with dual stock engines, one in the front and one in the rear.

[@bruhzzleprojects5279]

4$ steel? Can't believe it

[@harshithsadhana7475]

can you run a car with no doors, hood,trunk like the top gear Botswana style.

[@dinobigliazzi8329]

Nope. Body panels are required.

[@eduardojud56]

put some special prize for those who put a Reliant Robin on the track

[@quillmaurer6563]

Though I know they aren't as roll-prone as Clarkson would have us think, it would still be hilarious if it had wheels on the top, or if they just made a running joke the whole day about it flipping over. Good luck finding one in the US though.

[@CasualGearheads]

@@quillmaurer6563 I dunno, if you stiffened up the suspension, threw on sticky rubber and played with weight distribution a bit like Deltawing - obviously the engine needs to go in the back - you could potentially maybe get something fairly stable. Probably not. :D

[@K4rt80y]

I can build my car with no handlebars. No handlebars. No handlebars. I can race my Geo with no Metro-Gnome. No Metro-Gnome. No Metro-Gnome.

[@Prelude610]

If they really wanted to win something, not sure what, they'd put the front motor back in, keep the mid-engine, and race that. I guess they could put the fuel cell on the roof.

[@SamCyanide]

Hahaha motorcycle engine go brrrr

[@plektosgaming]

A smart car is even lighter.

[@Thevwmethod]

We? Race lots of cars like the CBR swap in class 7 AutoGrass cars some are twin engine . . If there was a English! Lemons I use a metro with a mgf 1.8 turbo and it would be shit..

[@st1220]

142

[@Detailverliebt]

I am wondering since you don't value work time at all why are people not building tube frame cars in a Radical SR fashion. The tubes cost nothing, some fibreglass costs nothing and most importantly you can build a very simple car without complicated electronics and stuff. I guess a 100horses motor is pretty fast in a 600pounds car. Isn't that a loophole? I mean all these Metros with engine swaps in the rear, it is basically the concept of the Class-B rally cars but cheap, isn't it?

[@emenesu]

THAT IS A SUZUKI SWIFT! NOT A METRO! WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

[@TheRealMercDave]

Second?

[@emanon138]

Who ever this guy is from santa Cruz, he is way too animated. I feel like he's talking to a 5 year old trying to get them hyped. Creepy

[@RecordSeeker]

K bye.

[@kbbrown8154]

Gawds I am tired of that lawnmower gif. And the Flip Wilson one. And.

[@bpinsf]

Flip Wilson? Do you mean the one with Bernard "Pretty" Purdie saying, "Well...yes"?

[@ooklamoc4411]

Ha! Now I come here for them and have sadz when they don’t appear.