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 wibble
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| posted on August 3rd, 2005 at 09:01 PM |
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And its great to have my house mate back thanx Reub, Mate the pics look awsome and I cant shut Ian up! 
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| posted on August 3rd, 2005 at 10:46 PM |
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And its great to have my house mate back thanx Reub, Mate the pics look awsome and I cant shut Ian up!
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I bet....man, two vw nut heads in the same house.....
So, special heads on your project?.....hint hint 
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| posted on August 4th, 2005 at 09:42 AM |
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God, what did you do to him? He came back posessed! we have 8 vw engines under the roof at the mo so one is going to be donated to the cause for
research and development and if that one works the stroker is gonna cop it! Going to be very interesting.........
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| posted on August 4th, 2005 at 10:31 AM |
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looks cool
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| posted on August 4th, 2005 at 05:24 PM |
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wou'ldn't be twin cam heads would they, say, watercooled twin cam heads? 
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| posted on August 4th, 2005 at 06:01 PM |
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oooo I hope so, I'd love to see this done in Australia......
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| posted on August 5th, 2005 at 11:40 PM |
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Yep thats it! The protoype that will be built will be an 1835cc, wrx heads, 44idf's. Work starts on the engine in 2 weeks. I want to have it running
in about 3 months. Longer term if the design works out to be stable we'll be making a 2180cc, 12:1 cr, 9000RPM screamer for Wibble's manx.
I'm still thinking through some of the design concepts, but if this works it opens up all kinds of alternatives for us engine builders. Who know? I
might even be able to develop a marketable "conversion" kit.
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| posted on August 6th, 2005 at 12:05 AM |
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I mentioned this a year and a half ago and everyone said it was too hard.
How are you figuring out the cooling and the oil galleries? I spose you'll also have to find some way to attach the heads without blowing a head
gasket all the time. I know it can be done, but seems like a lot of hard work.
And 9000rpm and 12.1 comp, what sort of bottom end/case is gonna stand up to that long term? Subarus are all redlined at low, Non-turbo 6000rpm, turbo
7500rpm.
Are you using porsche cooling fans or VW?
A part of me says, Why don't you just put a subie in it?
Seems like you're reinventing the wheel with an inferior crank case...
Gonna be exy too.
But then I'd still like to see you do it, it'd be different.
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| posted on August 6th, 2005 at 09:18 AM |
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Time will tell, wait and see. So far parts and designs are still being collected and reinventing the wheel? The wheel is square at the moment :alien
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 12:46 PM |
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The wheel is square at the moment :alien
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It is cheaper to buy a low km import round wheel than it is to put a round wheel onto a square hub.
The only reason that guy would've originally done it is to compete in motorsport and there must have been a loop hole restricting him to a crappy VW
block but able to use whatever heads he wants.
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 03:50 PM |
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I spoke to the guys that did that conversion via email, they werent too chatty and didnt even want to send some more photos of the car..... though
they were happy enough to tell me they now do 4 cylinder 911 engines (cut 2 cylinders off the front.....)
I did a little research into the suby head conversion and I reckon it would be a real neat one if you could get the details right. You would need some
sort of sandwich plate between the head and the VW barrels, the bore is 92mm from memory and the cylinder spacing was only about 1mm different....
Where I got stuck was what to do with bolting the whole arrangement down. I guess you could restud the VW case with the suby stud pattern or run some
sort of intermediate plate to change the stud pattern.....
Oil return is easy, you would run it down one of the pushrod holes, block the others up. You could take an oil feed from one of the oile relief
positions maybe ? or from an external cooler line, then hose it to the heads. The sandwich plate would seal all the coolant holes, so you would have
to add an in and out for that..... Custom crank pulley to drive the cam belt / s. Its definetely doable (the one in the photo was a type 4 base, and
made about 450hp with T4 turbo for Autocross / Rallycross duties).
The image below is scaled off of photos... would be interested to see how close I got the dimensions.....
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 03:51 PM |
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PS Sorry for the thread hijack Reub !!!!
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 04:31 PM |
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no probs....how's this grab you....the photo of the wrx head being ported is actually one of the ported heads I have in my shed for the 'one day'
engine build....the photo is actually from an article on autospeed.
Reub
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 06:10 PM |
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Yah, I pinched it from the Autospeed web site from memory. Fark, small world......
And if I havent said it already, congrats on getting your car to where it is, and I bet you cant wait until you have plates on it !!
Have you had any approaches from magazines yet ? I can see it being a Zoom feature car for sure....... probably Fast Fours would want you too......
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| posted on August 8th, 2005 at 06:23 PM |
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Yah, I pinched it from the Autospeed web site from memory. Fark, small world......
And if I havent said it already, congrats on getting your car to where it is, and I bet you cant wait until you have plates on it !!
Have you had any approaches from magazines yet ? I can see it being a Zoom feature car for sure....... probably Fast Fours would want you too......
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Zoom mag would love Reubs car without doubt.When they done my car they where fantastic.....they made the hole day fun.Reubs if you
want the phone number ill arrange it for you.JVLRacing:thumb
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 12:55 PM |
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Actually I've seen several potential feature cars on this forum.... like Alan's (Dasdubber) for sure, and Golde60's when thats finished, and I'm
sure CheCastro's Black Betty would get a look in...... some quality dubs around nowdays.
I just wanna see someone in Australia do the Frankenstein Vw/Ej heads combo... would be well wicked.
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 01:51 PM |
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Keep watching then. anyway we should give reub his post back! More pics please Reub :thumb
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 11:19 PM |
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Reub
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 11:25 PM |
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Reubs,F...ing balistic photos:thumb:rudolf:beer...the darkside deffently looks great!!!!JVLRacing
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 11:40 PM |
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Hi
Looking good.
I reckon Zoom is best car magazine, I have every issue from day 1, they are not into stereos, led washer nozzles etc.
Steve
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 11:45 PM |
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Shame I'm not overly interested in making a magazine appearance....guess it would be kinda cool.
Just wanted a car that was a little extreme to drive and have fun in.
Reub
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 03:14 AM |
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Reub that car deserves to be in magizine. It just gets better each time you post. I like the looks of the interior. I have been doing a little
design on a console running from fron to rear. Mine will have 4 bucket seats. What do you think?
Ernie
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 09:35 AM |
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4 bucket seats??
thats quite interesting for a bug..how will you go about fitting 4 in there with the battery .etc normally under the rear bench? and the transmisson
tunnel ??
Anthony
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 10:31 AM |
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Your call Reub, but trust me its WELL worth a position in Zoom or any other car Mag I can think of. I'm surprised that VWMA arent bashing your door
down.
Actually, It'd be real interesting to see how well your car did at Summernats, I reckon even the neanderthal V8 people would love it.
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 10:31 AM |
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oh yeah and I reckon the interior is looking s%*t hot too !
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 11:21 AM |
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Looking awesome Reub!! :bounce:bounce:bounce
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 12:48 PM |
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I'm surprised that VWMA arent bashing your door down.
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I'm not :o
seems to be that wrx motor + bug = bad for most VW mags.
I used to be into Zoom, but I'm tired of all the Skylines. Has anyone seen Retro Magazine from the UK?
Awesome, vintage power and engine tranplants.
I agree though, this car needs to be in a Mag, and Zoom is the best of a bad bunch. I'd even buy to see the feature. :thumb
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 12:55 PM |
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Yeh! you are on the right path with that Pete about the Vw mag.JVLRacing:o
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| posted on August 10th, 2005 at 02:07 PM |
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Hi
Zoom lost it for a while with mga $ Skylines etc, the last issue was the best ever.
Steve
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Hi
Zoom lost it for a while with mga $ Skylines etc, the last issue was the best ever.
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Thanks Steve ,i thought my car in zoom was the best issue:P:P...........Back to you Reubs:thumbJVLRacing
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