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WPVW ben's green supercharged drag beetle 9.90 @ 134 mph

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847566
In 2009 just 6 weeks before warwick vw drags team WPVW decided to build me a race car so we pulled a 1966 beetle from the yard and started. The beetle started out as just put a engine and gearbox into it and go race. Untill Wayne Penrose found a old supercharger and decided to put that on. Here are some pics from the start

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847575
After we found the supercharger we decided to chop the front off to make it a little lighter and also add spindle mount wheels.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847578
with the size of the rear slicks we have to make the rear areo guards stand off the body cause we had to do this we decided to dzues fasten the rear guards on. Pics of the battery tray and fuel tank mounted.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847582
me and wayne fitting frontend. rear end choped off car

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847746
pics of the rear wing fitted and dzues fastner tabs for the windows. Also a dummy engine fitted with the supercharger on to set the height of the rear suspension and me cleaning the pan take off any brackets we dont need.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847749
after cleaning the pan i found out i need to replace the pan halves. final trial fitment of the rear guards

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

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#847753
pan is all most finished. i had to get in fills made to prevent rocks from flicking up into the carby.

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matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#847755
Thanks for sharing the build Ben....6 weeks before Warwick.....crikey, sometimes we make it tough for ourselves. 👍👍
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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847761
the engine that went in was a type 1 92x84 with old superflow heads 42x40 valves C45 cam, H beam rods ,pauter 1.4:1 ratio rockers, 10.8:1 comp.Gearbox was a 1800 kombi box with berg housing welded diff kombi cv joints.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847763
yeah a lot of late nights to get it done we also had to do customer work so we could afford to finish it

2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847765
finally together the day before we leave for warwick so we had no time to tune the car.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847772
well warwick 2009 did not turn out so good. we finished the car the day before we had to leave so we had no time to dyno it. When i was doing a burnout the flywheel come off the crank and destroyed the engine

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847774
after the engine blow i had to start from scratch with the engine. so after saving enough money and warwick 2010 coming up i brought some new parts. Cb bubble top alloy case bug pack flanged 88mm crank pauter x-beam conrods tcs30 engle cam. AA 94mm forged pistons.

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Gracey Wolfsburg Wizard

511 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#847783
Hey, good stuff, keep em coming!!!😎

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#847802
Awesome stuff Ben!
Great read.
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#847832
Hi Ben,

It's amazing how one can have a pan to build a car and then when you start, the plan totally changes 😂 😂😂😂

Love the story, photos and your car 👍👍👍👍

Thanks, Kevin
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

Uncle Craig Commited Dubber

66 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#847840
Gday Ben,
its all about the passion, which it shows you have stacks off. Congrats and thanks for the inspiration!!!
Craig
I am sick of ABS, SRS, AFM, SIDI, ECU, PIM, BCM, Electronic sensors & actuators, scan tools, fault codes, programing, flashing, syncing, Drive by wire, tract🤪ion & stability control, AARRHHH!!! Just give me Air cooled, VW's.. Simple.

2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847941
i cc the head to work out compression ratio and what length barrels i need. I got the case machined to fit the flanged crank flywheel seal.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847944
bottom end is together now it ready for heads.Pushrods made to length and rockers put on.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847955
car is now ready for dyno. I was alittle dissapointed about the dyno figure. I expected about 20psi from the supercharger but it would only make 5psi. But it still made 195 hp at wheels at 7000rpm. Here are two vids of first engine start and dyno



2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#847970
well warwick was not so good for in 2010. After getting new engine ready i done a nice burnout staged the car got it off the line it had a bit of axle tramp changed to second and the car turned right into the wall. The impact bent front beam both right hand wheels. After looking at the car back at the workshop we found that the cv joints could not handle it and broke the cage which caused me to turn right.

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2442supercharged Seriously Crusin Dubber

137 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#849317
after getting the car back to the workshop to insepect damage we found the front beam badley bent RH stub axle bent RHR trailing arm bent front frame head bent two broken RH cv joints. I have updated cv joints to 930 porsche fitted new alloy beam. I also fitted MSD 6al-2 programable. I will post more photos later of the new parts i fitted and the ones i am going to fit for warwick this year.😁