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| posted on January 17th, 2014 at 05:49 PM |
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My New Project (about time)
Hey guys
After talking about it for god knows how long
I've finally started my new project
Basically here's the plan, it is:
Street Beetle
1965 pan (converted to IRS & ball joint front end)
1960 body
Big wheels , big brakes , 2lt kombi auto , and 12A bridgeport rotary
something like this kind of
well this gives you a kind of idea of where I'm headed
I'm hoping to finish this build in a year
(which we all know means 2 , but gotta have a goal I spose)
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| posted on January 17th, 2014 at 06:25 PM |
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old floors removed to make way for new ones
centre of chassis stripped back to bare metal
old nose peice (k&l pin , this will be removed and replaced with ball joint)
More chassis stripping back
IRS Pivot boxes installed
(Thanks to Mike/Borris Vintage VW for lending me the Jig)
(Thanks heaps to Beau for the help cutting and welding them in)
New (Ball joint) frame head grafted in
Running hard stainless lines through the tunell for radiator feed and return lines
Lines will come out holes in the side of the tunell at front and rear
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| posted on January 17th, 2014 at 06:45 PM |
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I have an adapter plate and fly wheel for a 12a to beetle in the shed if you need one.
Shane 0410639269
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| posted on January 17th, 2014 at 08:08 PM |
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Shotgun!hell yeah stock thats the way rotors with boost!If you are crazy enough ivegot a 996 body shell doors etc could do you an amazingly cheap deal
on itBeetle pan turbo rotor porsc,he body!.And by cheap i mean cheap,hell if you get my heads and manifolds off westies shelf and send them to me its
yours for $500?
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| posted on January 17th, 2014 at 10:34 PM |
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Thanks Shane
I'll give you a buz I haven't sorted it out yet
But I do need to sort out an adaptor plate and a flex plate for the auto
Need to check with Aaron as to what's needed as he's doing the box for me
Col
You are a crazy man you crack me up
I will be down starting on the trailing arms etc tomorrow
I'll check on those heads for ya mate
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| posted on January 18th, 2014 at 07:14 AM |
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Sweet Stocko
Look forward to the progress. Off to a very nice start
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| posted on January 18th, 2014 at 12:59 PM |
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lookin good
I am not a big fan of running very hot water pipes inside any where as they may be difficult to get to in the future and inside the tunnel is going to
hold a lot of heat.
But its not my car 
be good to see another cool looking fast bug
cheers ian
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| posted on January 18th, 2014 at 08:47 PM |
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Stocko....what can I say? Looking good mate, spose. Loose the stoopid H2O and it might turn out ok.....still, guess I'll check back now and then to
see progress. 
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 09:51 AM |
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Awesome mate very cool project, What is the go with rotors in bugs now I thought they were no longer allowed?
It will all be OK in the end, if it's not OK it's not the end!
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 04:48 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by matberry
Stocko....what can I say? Looking good mate, spose. Loose the stoopid H2O and it might turn out ok.....still, guess I'll check back now and then to
see progress.
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Thanks matt
Mate I'm as much of a die hard (NO H20 ) man as the rest
of us but.....
I'm finding the cheap horsepower to much to resist
plus they sound cool LOL
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 04:53 PM |
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Sweet dude.
Look forward to seeing this one progress.
My radiator pipes run through the car (each side of the tunnel), I just wrapped twice in heat wrap to minimise temp transmittance.
Bridge port rotaries are nuts. And talk with Aaron (20B kombi) about a T3 auto... He builds them to handle reasonable power for a good price 
Reub
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by ian.mezz
lookin good
I am not a big fan of running very hot water pipes inside any where as they may be difficult to get to in the future and inside the tunnel is going to
hold a lot of heat.
But its not my car
be good to see another cool looking fast bug
cheers ian
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Cheers Ian
The pipes will be easily removable through the front of the tunnel if need be (hope that's never needed)
The only other option was running them under the floor
which considering I want the thing nice and low i'm not a fan of that option
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 04:57 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by reub
Sweet dude.
Look forward to seeing this one progress.
My radiator pipes run through the car (each side of the tunnel), I just wrapped twice in heat wrap to minimise temp transmittance.
Bridge port rotaries are nuts. And talk with Aaron (20B kombi) about a T3 auto... He builds them to handle reasonable power for a good price
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Cheers Reubs
Mate Already spoke to Aaron a bit about this
I have a 2lt kombi auto which once I do my gearbox mounts I'm sending to Aaron he's gunna build it all up ready to go for me
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 05:07 PM |
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Awesome mate very cool project, What is the go with rotors in bugs now I thought they were no longer allowed?
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As far as I'm aware
(going by the engine conversion rules, I got off the rta website)
you take the tare weight of the vehicle
(in this case 1965 beetle, which was 860kg)
you multiply that by 3 and that's the largest capacity you can run N/A
(which in this case is 2580)
A 12A =2400 so that's ok
A 13B = 2600 so that's no go
I'm sure aaron will weigh in at some point and confirm
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 06:12 PM |
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I would try and run water pipes down the side under the running boards
one each side for added cooling and to be able to use a smaller radiator.
also keeping the heat away from fuel pipes etc
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 06:21 PM |
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Best thing to do to a old beetle, add a bit of water technology. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMIiHY7JYw
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| posted on January 19th, 2014 at 06:28 PM |
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I will be keeping a very close eye on this build- want to see how you get the auto in and working. Reckon it's a great idea for another outside the
square build.
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| posted on January 20th, 2014 at 12:02 AM |
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I'll be watching too,rotor in a bug,hell yeah!!
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| posted on January 21st, 2014 at 08:37 PM |
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hey guys
not alot of progress
at the pain in the ass stage of modifying everything
and dummy fitting (got to do it though)
bump stops removed (who needs those stupid things)
trailing arms cleaned up (ready to modify)
bearing carriers cut out to move in further
bearing carriers relocated
test fit (damn won't go very low)
will cut shock mount arms and rotate foward tomorrow for more clearance
to lower
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 07:22 PM |
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Gonna be an interesting build, keep it up and nice work so far!
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| posted on September 28th, 2015 at 04:18 PM |
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Just found this... How did it go?
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