A few months back I got an email from my editor over at Honda Tuning telling me he had an unusual car he wanted me to shoot for a magazine feature. My interest was peaked and I had to inquire what the project was, when he told me it was a Honda Insight with a J35 V6 VTEC engine from a Honda Odyssey swapped into the hatch area and converted to rear wheel drive my jaw almost crushed my desk. What neither one of us knew was while the car had already been approved for the feature that did not stop the owner from continuing to modify the car. By the time I contacted the guys over at Mini-Tec, the people responsible for this mad creation, they told me they had to get it retuned because they just added a 35R turbo to the swap! Within a few weeks the “Frank-Insight” was tuned and was now pushing 400whp to the rear wheels and ready for its feature shoot.

















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Want the money shots? Check my latest blog post to see the engine bay/rear hatch set up:

http://chadbeephotography.com/blog/2...uning-feature/

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now that's original!

 

That's exceptionally clever and all... but I fear that it may have an understeer problem.

 

It is far from a track day/HPDE car hahha

 

As a technical exercise, its amazing. Maybe its really just meant for straight-line performance.

 

Exactly

 

It looks like an endangered insect.

 

ROFL!!!!

 

this would freak me out if it's back end slid out while it passed me.

 

Amazing vehicle, honda should've made the rear fenders like that from the factory. I wonder what numbers it would put down on the track.

 

All that time and money and some shitty 90's cheap alloys?

 

did the owner run out of money and not paint the bumpers?-sorry not feeling this at all.

 

As it is pretty clear, the owner doesn't care about how the car looks.

 

lol not every one cares about wheels.

Pretty sick swap though and never would have expected that inside there.

 

I'd rather see a set of OEM 4 lug by that reasoning. It's actually worse looking with those on it.

 

No motor pics? They should be mandatory!

 

Look at the big red letters under the last photo

 

Stop hatin' BC he makes double your HP. Lol. I like the front/rear blk bumpers. Reminds me of the earlier OE DX Honda models that had their front/rear bumpers black from the factory. Prolly before most of y'all were born.

 

Pictures look great. Car not so much.