Two friends gave the weirdest Porsche ever made a V8 and then drowned it in a river adventure

This might be the weirdest Porsche ever made – and it was built in a garage with Harbor Freight tools.

What started as a tired 1986 Porsche 944 is now an off-road V8 rally monster.

There’s a bash bar, a roof bucket named Phil, and a gas can where the rear window should be.

And to prove how tough it was, the owners drove it into a river until the engine drowned.

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How the weirdest Porsche ever made came to be

This is a Porsche 944 that’s been reborn as a DIY Safari rally rig.

Under the hood is a 5.7-liter LS1 V8 from a Chevy Camaro, tuned for power and bulletproof reliability. 

It’s got truck heads, Sierra coil packs, and a junkyard alternator, and it runs like a beast. So much so, it actually broke an axle during a burnout test in the woods.

And the suspension setup? Total garage wizardry. 

The front uses stock 1986 struts with two-inch spacers and zip-tied spring rubbers. The rear is lifted by re-indexing the Porsche’s torsion bars – just good old-fashioned brute force engineering.

Then there’s the look. 

Off-road tires, a custom bash bar and skid plate made of 1/4-inch aluminum, a roof rack loaded with a spare tire, traction boards, and ‘Phil’ – a plastic bucket with a face. Not to mention lights, lights, and more lights.

The interior’s got a Bluetooth head unit, racing wheel, and even a custom coolant gauge disguised as a clock.

Everything about this car screams personality. It’s funny, functional, and fearless. 

So, let’s just say it probably didn’t deserve what it got.

They drove the Porsche 944 into a river – and then things went sideways

To properly test the Safari 944, the team came up with four wild tests: power, articulation, submersibility, and flight.

Power? It passed with tire-shredding donuts. Articulation? It crawled a steep trail like a champ. Then came the river.

At first, the car handled the shallow part fine. But peer pressure – and open exhaust cutouts – led to full throttle. And that’s when water shot up the tailpipe. 

The engine hydrolocked mid-stream, filling with water. Cue chaos, comedy, and eventual rescue.

They drained it, fixed it, and somehow the car lived to jump a gravel mound in the final flight test. Miraculously, it survived that, too.

This wasn’t about building the world’s best off-roader. It was about pushing the weirdest Porsche ever made to the limit – and filming every glorious failure along the way.

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