Klaus wrote:whats the specs on the 1835 ie 40's, 44's stock valve heads , cam? thanks oh and $$$
Hey buddy,
The specs..... Its been a long time since I had the motor built and I'm not home to look at the build sheet.
Only has about 12,000 miles
Built in 1996
1835cc with dual 40IDF Weber carbs
Stock heads, hydraulic lifters (I didnt want to have to adjust the valves all the time) Hydraulic cam, alternator, degreed pulley, all chrome engine tin, jet coated header and hide away exhaust. I am not sure what I want for the motor yet, if you are interested, please let me know.
Cars looking great Alden !!! I'm in Illinois and wanted to ask you a few questions about your swap. Can you email me at radmachergb@comcast.net ???
Thanks
Actuallly yes..... I finally had some time yesterday and got it running, and took it down the road. I must say, I am extremely impressed on how good it ran! It is going to eat up the stock tranny in no time!! Its pretty much rediculous!! One of the faster street cars I have been in! I'm super stoked!!
All - This engine is idling fast, I have backed out the idle screw, yet still idling around 2000rpm.... Does anyone have any ideas as to why? I looked for a vac. leak, but I dont know.... More pics and videos to come in the future...
Well, after one heck long of a day, I was able to drive the bad boy 2hrs south to our new home. I had a few hic cups along the way, but I will get into that later!
Here is a pic as we were getting ready to roll out..... It now has 225-65-15 rear tires which looks alot better than what I thought it was going to look like.. These were needed to gain additional clearance of the exhaust-pavement. The stance ended pretty decent. Second, I ran the full ride with the laptop next to me to monitor the vitals of the engine! More to come later!
I drove the car 2hrs north on Sat evening after work. About an hour on the interstate, I had to pull over as I noticed that the car was slowly getting hotter. This told me alot about what is needed in the future regarding the cooling. I pulled over at a rest area and started playing with the Stinger on the laptop. For some reason, the fans weren't triggered to come on, so I changed the values and we were up and going again. I think the ambient temp was pushing 100°F that day.... None the less, I had previously installed some tempory "scoops" to direct the air flow from beneath the car up to the radiator. Considering that I was needing the fans to run down the interstate tells me that I am in need of possibly better ducting, larger radiator, or something I haven't thought of yet.
I continued up the road in time to meet up the Jay H and a bunch of other guys at a resturant. After talking vw's, subi swaps, our two cars specifically, I continued an additional 20miles north to stay the night with my friend at his house. Well, during this little trip, I sprung a leak in the radiator,. Unfortunately, one of the radiator fans rubbed/vibrated a hole in the cooling passage of the radiator, and was leaking tremendusly by the time I got to his house. Pic below, antifreeze leaking onto the hot exhaust...
I called around to all the parts stores trying to find a radiator out of a 6cy Jeep Cherokee (this is the rad. I am using) and ended up finding one. I swapped them out and and made it all the way home that evening.
That very next day, the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour came thru my area, only 20mins away in DuQuoin Ill, they said there were over 3000 cars on display. I headed up there that afternoon in the VW, showed the car, noticed from the distance spectators pointing to the engine compartment in disbeleaf
The Highlight - On my way home from the show, I was sitting at a stoplight on the outskirts of town (immediately turns to 55mph and not another stoplight, entrance or exit for 2miles) and up next to me rolls a 69 Camaro. Now let me tell you, this was one badass car! Silky smooth paint, lowered with larger rims and low profile tires, and I dont know for sure, but possibly a big block! It sounded everybit as good as it looked! Now my heart is racing, my palms are a bit sweaty, and I look over and rev the VW waiting for the green light. He looked back with a smile - probably thinkin what a joke! The funny thing was the joke was on him!!!! The light turned green, I let the clutch out aggressively but not side stepping it ( I still have the factory orginal 1968 VW Tranny) he had a bit better reaction time was just a bit ahead. I then immediately put the pedal to the floor, shifted to second and all of a sudden I am looking at his headlights out the passenger rear window, threw it into third and I couldn't believe it, I am now seeing his headlights decending in the rear view mirror, into fourth for a bit and decided that was it!!!! I am now in disbelief but yet also have the biggest smile on my face... It wasn't even close, I must have been every bit of 50ft ahead of him, yet right off the line, he was 3ft or so ahead of me... As I slow down, now cruising at 60ish mph he pulls up beside me, shakes his no and gives me a thumbs up. He then pulled off at the next light and went to the hotel as I continued on. I couldn't help but think, did he just get back to the hotel (parking lot was full of old cars) and tell his buddys what had just happened, or not say a word? Either way, its pretty funny! Who would ever think while driving a old hopped up Camero, that an old VW Bug would spank them.
That following week, My Father came to visit, and was anxious to go for a ride as I had told him this story and how well the car was running. We go for a small little ride, to get the engine up to temp, I pull out of my subdivision and romp on it, shift from 1st to 2nd and BANG!! there went the trans! It now has no forward or reverse gears. Due to how busy I have been, I pushed it into the garage where it has sat ever since. I am planning on getting a Rancho Trans this winter and replacing the tranny.. Its a never ending project!
Pics:
First i'm at a rest area trying to figure out why the cooling fans arent' kicking on
Second, Pulling into my buddies house, antifreeze leaking onto the exhaust.
Third, at the Hot Rod Power Tour 2010
Lastly, my father and I pullng out, a few minutes later, the trans blew.. 🙁
It took me an interstate run with mine to find out my rad opening wasnt big enough either, had been fine with just around town running.
Good thing you have such good roads in the US, around here your header hanging down like that would last about as long as a AU falcon parked in South Lismore with the keys in it
Well, I have had the car running for a while now. The gearing of the new tranny is so much more streetable! Now that I have a tranny that withstand the hp, I couldn't resist the temptation to up the boost and get some real power out of the new JDM V7 STI, so I took it from 9psi to 19psi!! It sure does run well now - not that it didnt before. From what I have read, they say that 1psi is equal to 10hp. If this is true, that means its putting out another 100hp, and it feels as if it just might be!
So, I took it to the dragstrip a couple weeks ago.... On a last minute of "what do you want to do tonight" my wife asked, I said lets take the VW to the races.. She said, lets go! I had to go and install the seatbelts in the back seat so that I could get our 3yr olds car seat in, and after that we were off. On the way, I romped on it a couple times, and I look back and my son has a smile from ear to ear while the wife was white knuckled!! Ha!
I get to the track, everyone was looking like who's the idiot bringing a VW to the dragraces! I only made two passes, the first was against an early 90's 5.0 Mustang. It sounded good (what 5.0 mustang doesn't) and had some aftermarket wheels, tires, and big cowl duct hood. Im thinking there was some performance parts under the hood. We get into the staging lane, he's doing a big old smoking burnout, while I just drove around the water and went up to the line and waited. I hadn't had an adreneline rush like this in a long time! He pull up and the lights go green, I bogged it off the line and passed him right up. When the boost came on in 1st, it spun the tires all the way to 8000rpm, shifted to second and it continued to spin all the way thru 2nd, into 3rd with a chirp and crossed the line. I look back, and it looks like the Mustang is between 1/2 and 3/4 track. He just got smoked by what he thought was a VW!!! HA!
The second run was against an 03ish Mustang Cobra! It thinking, now we are going to have some competition! We get up to the line, still no burn out for me, and I went a bit faster, but he went the same et and mph as the previous mustang. That means the 1st mustang had a bunch of work done to it!!
Below is a pic of the time slips and a poor quality video of the 2nd race against the Cobra.
Is most had said early on, to put the radiator up front, I have now made the decision to do so. I am very confident that I could make it work in the back, but I would be alot of trial and error until I felt 100% confident in the set up. I just dont have the time or patients! I have ordered a radiator which will be installed in the spare tire location with some ducting from below.
The 207 is good for a safe 300hp. There is a few guys getting 350 but there going pop around this.
It has forged pistons & a modified crank with 4 holes in it not like the common 205 or early wrx motors. This was done to stop the con rod failures due to lack of oil.
Looking for that special lady : PM me for coffee & cake
