Well My Dragon has come out of its cave and seen the light of day .

I have landed a 1960 beetle from the Tompson boys .
The beetle was saved from the crusher a few years back and placed in a shed to keep it dry .

The run down >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

some of the parts are missing ( see wanted in the for sale section here )

The in side of the bug has been striped out , head lining , door cards , floor mats >rat shit > dead snake > used condoms & there packets

The floor has the the orginal paint on it & is mostly rust free .Some rust in the heater chanels but I get to this when I left the body off the pan .Paint is shitty but over all the car is solid & doors shut as they did when the car came off the assembly line .

What I am doing to it

Fist throw the 1300 cc Vw motor & swing axle away its too slow


The new Motor will be a Suabru EJ20 quad cam turbo 16 valve unit coming in from Japan from a wrx or STI wrx .
I am making a full 316 ss headers for it to drop some weight from the rear & make it look realy smart under there

I have yet been able to work out the gear box I am going with & have a few to select here from .

I going to fit air bags to this machine so I can get it low on the road , then push the butten to lift it to bring in down my drive way to put it to bed .

I have collected the following to make this machine stop
Front Nissan r32 ? 4 pot calipers
rear ford ea /eb with cross drilled rotors

Wheels I have not had a chance to look whats out there .

The inside of the bug will be back to stock , seats will be stock , but I will make the drives seat be able to tale me race seat for drag meets

seagull


To date we have about 9 guys & girls in Perth doing conversions to Subaru so keep your eyes out .There is going to be some very fast vws out there soon

keep us posted seagull. going to be one quick machine.

mmmmm sounds very tasty!

Good to see nice work:thumbJVL

in the cave

"PUFF" the magic dragon??????????????

:P

Up date

I have 5 wrx front cuts coming in for the lads 95> wrx

Paul , simon & my self removed the vw motor from my bug & simon going to give it to some who thinks vw motors are good .

I have been trying to get on top of my * other projects *
car trailer
Rs liberty

I have also just built a rs turbo motor from a jap import n/a motor I have here .Not sure of the compression ratio but for what I payed for it its not worth pulling the heads off to check .I start it if it blows up I throw it away and fit another what do want for $216.66 cents !

I have the Dragon insides stripped out & in three weeks I bring it home
pull the swinger out throw it away body off , irs the rear , drop spindles

seagull

when all these vw converted cars are on the road we all have to meet up and go for a cruze!
ill definately be keen!

and for once its perth not somewhere over east!!!

good stuff neil

Cruse ! no way Draging is what it will be made for !

blowing away v8s

Hell Yeah!

Can i be the token girl of the group? :kiss

Ash x

as long as you

just sit there

keep quiet

smile

cook

and bring the beer !

I let you in

O may be do the washing

Careful Neil-thems fightin' words.

:cussing

got to have some fun !

You in the shed yet Neil.... Maybe Ill come over to give you a hard time!.... My 2276 is so gonna eat you!!!!!! :kiss

[ Edited on 7-7-2006 by humpty ]

Just had a shower & loged on

The dam Toyota will not start ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR dam that thing .

The Dragons coming home Sunday !!!! so stay away SPARKS are going to fly as I got a 9" grinder now .

I about to start a new project and its going to be one thats going to give you the shits
Get you shit together cos air cooled suck

This Dragon will fly

Need a G50 as I have an order in Japan for one or 2

what about getting the rear alloy suspension arms,944 turbo alloy arms will give same track as irs beetle .G50 4spd good for turbos as well my wife is going to buy me a plasma cutter or a tig welder :birthdaynext month.

When you widen the track you will have problems with tyre clearnace in the rear.... Please don't stick crappy f/g guards on the 60, Neil.... It just looks so crappy.... Stick with the stock guards and make the stuff fit.... You know I can get 225/50-17's under a stock rear guard with IRS.... That's plenty of tyre for most.... And more than enough for a light weight VW!....

Simon it will be stock

The Dragons home !

& The chop has started

Rear

the Trim as it was in 1960

got stuck in to it today , locked the door and smashed the door bell

Yeeeehaaaaaaa!

Air tools a sweet .

Removed the pannels to see what I had .
The out the front to cut up more of the 1966 .I cut the car in half with the 9" as to get the rust repair sections .

Seagulls chop shop .

Rear will be marked out monday , then out the front with the pressure cleaner to get rid of the grease on the box & beam .

Making the jig for the front beam & rear jig for the IRS .
Roll bar steel under way .Adapter plate & fly wheel on the shelf .ECU in a box for shipment

Hows it looking under there now the guards are off?

There is a bit of rust mate .I cut the heater ( whole driver side side out of the 66 )

I can cut & weld some plates in .

I also just went for a walk down the road ( bin ) as there was a 316 ss pressure tank , it said SPERM TEST TANK LCVRTY 1 .

LOL its now the tank for the air bags ! just washed it out no one will know :party

grind,grind,grind love the smell of burnt metal
are you going to brace the pan for the 500% increase in torque:thumb

if you are throwing away the 1300 i am in perth could do with another motor for my vw dont want to sound like a seagull but anything that is free saves me money
Cheers Derek