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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mcglsr2" data-source="post: 1213743" data-attributes="member: 15705">Also an excellent sleeper: <a href="http://www.turbovan.net/van.html" target="_blank">89 Dodge Caravan</a>.  Came from the factory with a turbo-charged 2.5L 4 cyl.  These are stout engines and can make pretty hefty hp numbers for stupid cheap - enough to push a van into the 12's.  I kid you not.  I came across them on another forum I was on way back.  They called them flying bricks.  Imagine with me if you will: cruising along in your hideous 1989 of a POS van with fake wood paneling jamming to your Whitesnake cassette, when you pull up next to <insert just about any sports car here> at a stop light.  You look over, I mean down (you are in a minivan) at the hipster/redneck/pop-collar/college kid/rich dude/whatevs in the previously stated sports car, and you goose the throttle a little, and give him a head nod - "sup."  He's thinking, haha, very funny.  You goose it again.  He's like alright, imma show this douche in a EFFING MINI VAN WTF what's up.  Light turns green, you roast the front tires, find traction, and are gone.  Just flat gone.  Hipster/redneck/pop-collar/college kid/rich dude/whatevs is left staring at your tails, mouth open wide enough to drive a train through, as the reality of what just happened sets in.  Pownzer'd by a mini van.  Yup.  This was a bad day.</blockquote>