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Quick quiz, what car is 2.1L, twin turbo, rear engined, watercooled and pushrodded?

Secoh · 2003-04-09T10:35:04+00:00

Answer: The one I am building of course! 😀 I was trying to keep this a bit of a secret but what the hell...too many people have been asking so I'll spill teh beans *frrrp!* It started with the Pub Bug, a POS '72 superbug with more cancer than Yul Brenner. It was cheap transport after selling the Fridge of Fury, and once I got the Statesman I couldnt sell it, so it got left outside pubs and at traistations during drinking sessions. It got left at Epping station once for over a week because I had forgotten where I had left it after a drinking sesion in the city 🙄 It got dynoed at the PF dyno day with a staggering 25rwkW. I broke a handbrake cable doing U turns that day too heheh So it sat around, I decided to have a bit of a muck around with it, I recon it'd make a classic sleeper seeing as it definately looks slow. Then I discovered just how bad the rust really was :eek: Repaired most of it, had to cut massive sections out. the other side was nearly as bad! I removed the spare wheel area n preparation of the radiator as I'm going water cooled here. Here is the radiator, I found an N13 rad fits almost perfectly, even with the angled filler neck and stock thermo fans! There will be plenty of airflow once the front apron has been "trimmed" and ducted hehe The engine build parts. the motor is from a Caravelle van, and should hold together ok, according to what the mental yanks get up to. Not shown is the pair of turbos I will be running, and the two RB20 intercoolers just as soon as I can figure out where the %^$% I can fit them! Space is definately at a premium. Just got the flywheel back today! woohoo! work of art! the stock one weighs around 6kg, this one weighs around 3! Dont worry, I have a plan for the ring gear before someone has a go about how I'm gonna start it hehe. Ok, more on the project as it happens! [Edited on 16-8-2003 by Secoh] [Edited on 16-8-2003 by Secoh]

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reub VWRX is gone...

2,054 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 17 Aug 2003, 8:26 pm

#74870

I plan to make it down with my 'finished' or should I say registered car to Valla in 2005 (are they ever really finished). Gives you a goal...and me. Do they have a 1/4 mile set-up there???

Reub

11CAB If ya got it....Baja it

4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 17 Aug 2003, 8:50 pm

#74927

Secoh, good to hear...
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