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Drift Beetle, well sort of
1303Steve - August 8th, 2014 at 04:06 PM

Hi

A friend my sons and I has a fabrication shop in Moorebank, he builds some insane cars.

He's been working on a drift Beetle for a while, well its a Beetle on a KE70 Corolla chassis, 1UZ motor etc, should do good skids.

Steve

1303Steve - August 8th, 2014 at 04:07 PM

one more photo

OZ Towdster - August 8th, 2014 at 04:59 PM

Tell me again why the hell he didn't just build a decent large displacement VW motor and go drifting like wayne in his ghia , oh and save about 3 years of his life reinventing the wheel

1303Steve - August 8th, 2014 at 06:04 PM

Hi

Wayne wasn't drifting he was power sliding but it was cool to watch, different thing altogether, its hard to drift a rear engine car with a big lump out the back, plus he likes to fabricate things, he's already built a AE86 drift car with a 4 litre Aurion engine for his friend and his other other car is a real early 1UZ Cressida with compound turbos.

What would Waynes motor and trans combo be worth? $20,000 to $30,000, I think you can buy a lot of grinding wheels and welding wire for that.

Steve

vlad01 - August 9th, 2014 at 09:48 PM

very exciting! keep the updates coming.

Doug Sweetman - August 10th, 2014 at 01:07 AM

Nice indeedy. 1uz with compound turbos sounds interesting too

matara - August 10th, 2014 at 05:11 PM

Sounds interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4t8YO0dqw

1303Steve - August 10th, 2014 at 07:07 PM

Hi

Still not drifting, my sons Skyline at Wakefield Park, its about setting the car up coming into the corner, he usually does about 180kph coming into the corner from a standing start 1/2 way down the where the pit garages are.

Steve

Doug Sweetman - August 10th, 2014 at 11:32 PM

Good angle there !

tidlibitz - September 9th, 2014 at 04:51 PM

This is awesome, there a great motor, quad cam good geometry 4ltr V8 can rev to the moon and its in a VW.

now you've got me thinking about my square..

please keep the pics coming!!

vlad01 - September 9th, 2014 at 09:49 PM

might be a bit heavy for your square, oh wait this thing is going in a beetle :lol:

Alex VW Heritage - September 9th, 2014 at 11:28 PM

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Bastouil, a mad french man with a 2276cc bug, which is set up for drifting. He is competeing next year in Gymkana events across europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLcmXKxgZE 

modnrod - September 10th, 2014 at 11:56 AM

He needs at least another 500HP.
As much as I love the little things, VW's don't cut it.
This isn't Comp Drift either, but it's a shitload closer (plus I just love Supra's too!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7v1jRvWQKA 

This looks good........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWtaVdi-iI 

Thestrouds - October 12th, 2014 at 02:35 PM

Any more pics of this build. Awesome.

vlad01 - October 12th, 2014 at 02:55 PM

there is something about jap cars and drifting thats just yuk to me for some reason, maybe its the awful sound they make or the looks of them?

however bmw doing hillclimb on the other hand looks quite exciting.