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posted on August 8th, 2014 at 04:06 PM
Drift Beetle, well sort of
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A friend my sons and I has a fabrication shop in Moorebank, he builds some insane cars.
He's been working on a drift Beetle for a while, well its a Beetle on a KE70 Corolla chassis, 1UZ motor etc, should do good skids.
Steve
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posted on August 8th, 2014 at 04:07 PM
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posted on August 8th, 2014 at 04:59 PM
Tell me again why the hell he didn't just build a decent large displacement VW motor and go drifting like wayne in his ghia , oh and save about 3
years of his life reinventing the wheel
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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posted on August 8th, 2014 at 06:04 PM
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Wayne wasn't drifting he was power sliding but it was cool to watch, different thing altogether, its hard to drift a rear engine car with a big lump
out the back, plus he likes to fabricate things, he's already built a AE86 drift car with a 4 litre Aurion engine for his friend and his other other
car is a real early 1UZ Cressida with compound turbos.
What would Waynes motor and trans combo be worth? $20,000 to $30,000, I think you can buy a lot of grinding wheels and welding wire for that.
Steve
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posted on August 9th, 2014 at 09:48 PM
very exciting! keep the updates coming.
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posted on August 10th, 2014 at 01:07 AM
Nice indeedy. 1uz with compound turbos sounds interesting too
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posted on August 10th, 2014 at 07:07 PM
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Still not drifting, my sons Skyline at Wakefield Park, its about setting the car up coming into the corner, he usually does about 180kph coming into
the corner from a standing start 1/2 way down the where the pit garages are.
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posted on August 10th, 2014 at 11:32 PM
Good angle there !
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posted on September 9th, 2014 at 04:51 PM
This is awesome, there a great motor, quad cam good geometry 4ltr V8 can rev to the moon and its in a VW.
now you've got me thinking about my square..
please keep the pics coming!!
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posted on September 9th, 2014 at 09:49 PM
might be a bit heavy for your square, oh wait this thing is going in a beetle
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posted on September 10th, 2014 at 11:56 AM
He needs at least another 500HP.
As much as I love the little things, VW's don't cut it.
This isn't Comp Drift either, but it's a shitload closer (plus I just love Supra's too!)
