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 69satellite
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 05:44 AM |
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my bugaru
Heres my poor little bug that I'm working on. Its a 72 std beetle. Here it is when I first got it home.
As you can tell it was a baja. And its goin back to normal. Picked up the 4 fenders, hood, engine cover, and front clip.
Car was $70. Parts were $150. Paper work to get a title (since it had no papers) about $30 if I remember right.
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 05:45 AM |
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After getting some fenders for it, ignore the year difference. I have all 4 matching years now. and 2 front wheels, $20
And heres a shot of my old one. It was lowered, 1641 and had a narrowed beam and minimal rust, hardly any.
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 05:46 AM |
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Then I picked up a 93 legacy that had been flipped on its roof. the smashed roof got old real quick. so i chopped it off to be able to get to work.
$400 for that
I don't have a pic of the motor but its the 2.2. and heres the wire harness outta it, 4.5hrs later.
That about put me up to date. I need an awd manual transmission so I can get a subaru gear reverse ring and pinion kit. And also need to tear the
motor down. It only had 103k on it but it ran upside down and shot the rings cuz she smokes bad, but made no noises thankfully.
That puts me at $370 so far. I will probaly regret keeping track of the cost, but i don't plan on selling this one. I had to sell my last one and I
kick myself everytime I think of it.
and heres the 2.2 outta. really need to clean the garage up. to many projects goin on
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 05:51 AM |
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So that was about a years worth of progress. lol. This will be a slow build, because I'm cheap and have to many projects. But I found a few different
guys on a subuaru forum that will strip down the harness and make it so theres only like 10ish wires to have to deal with and they only want bout $200
to do it. And while I am cheap I know how long it will take me to do it and it only takes them a few hours and they know what they are doin and I
can't get it back to me quickly. Hoping to find a trans soon, saw one on the same forum. My plans are to get the harness done, get a trans. mock it
all up. get it running ( I know that id only be able to put it in reverse to go forward) but that way i can make sure everythings working fine then
take it out. And fork out the big money for a subaru gear kit
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 10:37 AM |
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What do you mean? subaru gear kits are cheap !!!
Reversed gears for Subaru transmissions.
Fit a Subaru 5 speed to your rear engined car
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 12:15 PM |
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I see you got the Sawzall out, the key tool in any conversion 
How long did you run the engine for?
If it spent time on its lid the cylinders will be full of oil which will take some time to burn out, so it would smoke for a while.
I very much doubt it would have done damage to the rings running upside, theres plenty of other stuff that woulda gone wrong long before that
happened.
Unless it had a chockers full tank it wouldn't have run for long before the pump ran dry.
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| posted on April 20th, 2011 at 10:29 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by ttriebler
What do you mean? subaru gear kits are cheap !!!
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cheaper than a porsche trans thats for sure. But I am totally willing for you to be my sponsor.
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I see you got the Sawzall out, the key tool in any conversion
How long did you run the engine for?
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God I love my sawzall. But the poor thing has had a rough life from the start. Didn't have it 10 minutes before I had it cutting thru atleast a 1ft
thick of rolled roofing.
really prob not long enough. Thats why I'm going to do the conversion and see. It had a full tank of ancient gas and didn't really want to run that
thru it. and also didn't really feel like smoking up the neighborhood at the time. So i'm hoping everything is ok but only time will tell.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 01:57 AM |
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shame that legacy did not have the duel range gear box & 3.9 rear diff as you could of got 6 x your money back from those parts. Very hard to get
in the USA & the Brumby guys chase them.
PS was the legacy left hand drive ?? I think that the steering wheel over the glass.
your lucky not to hydraulic that motor if oil / fuel fill the piston chamber when the cars up side down. Always best to remove the spark plug before
start up and crank the motor over.
My mate down the road was turning is eJ on via the key then off then on , this went on for some time testing the electrics. When he hit the key to
start it clunk, the con rod came out the top of the block and hit the alternator. All I could do was LOL when I seen it
so were have you put the sss v8s ect ect ?
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 09:44 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by seagull
shame that legacy did not have the duel range gear box & 3.9 rear diff as you could of got 6 x your money back from those parts. Very hard to get
in the USA & the Brumby guys chase them.
PS was the legacy left hand drive ?? I think that the steering wheel over the glass.
your lucky not to hydraulic that motor if oil / fuel fill the piston chamber when the cars up side down. Always best to remove the spark plug before
start up and crank the motor over.
My mate down the road was turning is eJ on via the key then off then on , this went on for some time testing the electrics. When he hit the key to
start it clunk, the con rod came out the top of the block and hit the alternator. All I could do was LOL when I seen it
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Yeah I pulled the plugs and turned it over first. before I tried to run it. and yeah its a lhd. and i wish it was an awd but it was just a fwd. hard
to find subbies over here that don't have 300k miles on them.
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the sss v8s ect ect ?
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huh?
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 10:06 AM |
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you should be collecting SSS v8 sedans ( mussel cars )
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 10:25 AM |
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I would put the subi gearbox conversion in the long term project basket, you still have to cut the back portion of the housing off and plate it off as
well as fit the locking collar thing before it even fits in a bug let alone drives.
Your not going to break a VW box with a non turbo motor unless your doing burnouts and dropping the clutch at every set of lights.
Even a turbo motor will work with a stock vw box if your not abusive to it, Ians has run for a couple of years with several drag strip days, so did
Jaks before he had it modified with WRX engines.
Even mine hasnt had any problems, and it had VW engines with the same power in it for years before that.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 10:55 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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you should be collecting SSS v8 sedans ( mussel cars )
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I got a few other projects too.
73 duster with a smallblock v8
69 Satellite with a 383
and a 63 jeep fc170 that will be on a dodge 1500 frame with a 5.9L efi
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I would put the subi gearbox conversion in the long term project basket, you still have to cut the back portion of the housing off and plate it off as
well as fit the locking collar thing before it even fits in a bug let alone drives.
Your not going to break a VW box with a non turbo motor unless your doing burnouts and dropping the clutch at every set of lights.
Even a turbo motor will work with a stock vw box if your not abusive to it, Ians has run for a couple of years with several drag strip days, so did
Jaks before he had it modified with WRX engines.
Even mine hasnt had any problems, and it had VW engines with the same power in it for years before that.
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Only reason I was goin that route is I don't have a vw trans. So I'd have to buy a trans and buy the adapter. When for alittle more I could just
have a 5 sp and be done with it. Still tossing it around. but i was looking and saw a guy with a vw trans for $120 so might get that. what do the
adapater kits run?
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 01:36 PM |
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Much easier to fabricate gearbox mounts and get it all in the right position when doing the initial build rather than getting it going with a VW box
and then doing it all again. Adaptor kit will cost $1000 at least, and then if you convert to the Subi box you will have to sell it at a loss. IMHO
you would be much better spending your time, money and effort on setting up the subi box.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 02:48 PM |
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imho, if the subaru ring and pinion had been around when I did my last gearbox, I would have done it without thinking twice. the subaru trans are so
much better.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 11:34 PM |
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I can pick up a kennedy adapter kit for $410. and a vw trans for $100 with axles. Clutch kits less than 200. So for what it would cost me to buy just
the Subaru trans I can have what I need get it up and running. and then do the subi as time permits. Cuz I can blow up alot of vw trans before I have
the $ that I would into the subi swap. I do want to do it one day but I just cant justify the cost right now.
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 10:49 AM |
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Sell your fwd subie box or swap it for an awd one. The reversed ring and piniononly works on the 4wd gearset.
Reversed gears for Subaru transmissions.
Fit a Subaru 5 speed to your rear engined car
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 11:45 PM |
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Sell your fwd subie box or swap it for an awd one. The reversed ring and piniononly works on the 4wd gearset.
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yeah. i left it in the car when i scaped it. not a huge market for a unknown condition fwd auto box here. I will be getting your gear kit, one day. Or
I may end up picking up the whole done trans but that will be a few years off. I can get pretty much every other part I need, for what i would cost me
to use a subi trans. I do want it but I'd also love a t56 transmission for my other cars and I jsut can't justify that kinda money right now
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well have been doing some work on it. Slowly. Got it back to my house (was at my parents). Got the interior gutted and the windows out.
started sanding but gave up on that. Theres like 5 layers of paint. It took me over an hour with a DA to get this done. I wil use stripper on it once
i pull the body off the pan.
I also am cutting of the factory headliner clips and will be using just a center section headliner. I got the passenger b pilar cut clean and welded
up. just need to grind it clean. I finaly got a tank and got rid of flux welding. I kept burning thru when I was trying weld up stuff on the bug.
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| posted on March 30th, 2012 at 01:24 PM |
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Well its got a nose now.
And I'm goin to be sending out my harness to get cut down soon.
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| posted on April 14th, 2012 at 09:48 AM |
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some sanding done
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