Just wondering how many people on this forum have owned or planning to own a modified VW...namely a H20 conversion...?

Simply post what you have or had...

The only H20 modification I have is made is that I converted my windscreen washers from air pressure to electric, using an electric pump off a '76 Golf. It's nice to keep one's VW as VW as possible.

Since I take my buggy off road I want it as reliable and as simple as possiable = keep it as much VW as possiable.

i own a 94 golf vr6, the factory package is pretty good and doesn't need much improving - apart from the suspension, which is upset too easily by bumps mid-corner, plus it's pretty easy to provoke some entertaining oversteer!

Mods?

looks nice! me personally though I dont classify mags and a body kit as a mod even if insurance companies do.

Neither do we, thats why it had 180kw, carbon fibre airbox, adjustable big swaybars, adjustable coil over suspension, big brake upgrade etc etc....

Shannons insurance covered the lot!

thats better!

Shannons is great. they employ enthusiests so they actually know what they are on about too

S'funny you should mention that. When we were organising the first nationals back in '88, we thought about having a 'smash a Jap'. We were going to get a junked Corolla or something from a wrecker, and charge people $1 for three blows with a sledgehammer.

I doubt we could get public liability for such a thing nowadays...but I still like the idea.

I like watercooled VWs...they are stil VWs. One of the saddest engine blow years was the time they blew up a Passat engine; there are so few of them around that it seemed criminal somehow to blow it up deliberately.

any one else want to post

Where do I start ? I have owned a lot from datsun powered kombis to rotary powered eurekas . At the moment I have a Manx with a golf engine , a Manx with a subaru a Eureka with a subaru and building a Sharpbuilt with a subaru .

h20 subi bay for me!

I reckon if you want to convert your aircooled masterpiece into some ordinary waterboiler then go for it. It is just like all those resto jobs done on older houses in the 60s and 70s. Compare their resale value and the ambience of them now. No comparo.......
Maybe a better idea is get some waterboiler and put an aircooled donk in the back and see what happens

depends on what you want out of your car though doesnt it. :P my superbug was for sale for $500 for about 6 months, here and a number of other mediums with absolutely no interest in it. so therefore a stock battered aircooled superbug is worth less than $500.

I am keeping with the VW theme more or less but when done it will be a sub 55 sec oran park south car, will be fun to drive, wont overheat due to over-revving or the turbos and will handle a billion times better than a stock superbug.

I want a car I can drive, not a coffee table or garden shed thanks you go back to polishing your wiper arms and rest assured that a 40's car with 40's technology made right up to the 70's is so much better than one packed with current technology and engineering.

im currently putting a golf motor into my beetle.
i will be using a mark 2 GTI injected engine

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Originally posted by Secoh depends on what you want out of your car though doesnt it. :P my superbug was for sale for $500 for about 6 months, here and a number of other mediums with absolutely no interest in it. so therefore a stock battered aircooled superbug is worth less than $500. I am keeping with the VW theme more or less but when done it will be a sub 55 sec oran park south car, will be fun to drive, wont overheat due to over-revving or the turbos and will handle a billion times better than a stock superbug. I want a car I can drive, not a coffee table or garden shed thanks you go back to polishing your wiper arms and rest assured that a 40's car with 40's technology made right up to the 70's is so much better than one packed with current technology and engineering.

That's why an original daily driven stock older car is worth umpteen times more than all the backyard cobbled together mismatched cars combined. If you want to drive a modern car go and buy one!
There a re billions of $$$ invested in product development and safety. Cars designed and built in the 40's 50's and 60's are just that. I drive my kombi regularly and I still get where I need to go and whats more I have always made it home as well. You guys should try and put your egos in the glove box and settle down a bit. If you can make such good cars open up a yard on Nepean Highway or Parramatta road and see how many you can sell. As for an old beetle being worth only $500 well maybe that is what it is worth. About 3K new in 197? and now still going I would say that is good value for money. It works out at about $2 per week depreciation....ha what do you want?

[Edited on 12-5-2003 by MelbourneCairnsCruiser]

There already are...too name a couple...

Custom Bugs & Buses...Penrith

Indian Automotive...Kingswood

these PPL have made a living & rep modifying and converting VW...and would be the first to say !

convert...modify...:bounce:bounce:bounce

Anyway each to his own....

[Edited on 12-5-2003 by DakDat]

Sure a concours car will always be worth more than a daily driven example that has had minor modification in order to make it safer and more realistic to own.

but unless your Amish, then you have to accept that at the very least for safety they need such modifications as seat belts, radial tyres, flashing indicators and a demister.

Each to their own, and if you are happy with your museum piece that cant be used much more than the average ice sculpture, then more power to you!

But accept that an unrestored bug that has been used every day is a pretty worthless animal until it has either been brought up to restoration or modification standard.

I can only assume that you think of modifications as being such things as heater ducts blocked off with coke cans and carbys replaced with ones from kingswoods and other such bodgification.

You need to accept that there is such a thing as an improvement! I have been in the motor trade and around cars for long enough to know that I can improve on the manufacturer's product because my priorities do not include AM radio, cross ply tyres and mass appeal for minimal outlay. My priorities are very different to that of most manufacturers in that I like my car to stop exceptioonally well, go well and be fun to drive.

easy to park should not be something you have in mind when you restore or modify a car, but it is for a manufacturer.


I will own a concours car one day. When I am retired and have slowed down too much to cope with all those high speed hyundais