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| posted on May 15th, 2007 at 08:20 PM |
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1974 Type 4 (412) with 1.8T subaru engine
Hy guys,
I read allot of info here,
so know it's time to show some of our work :-)
Straight from the start, but all the info is on our Blog
we started in februari with this project
and were working really hard to get ready for the first European buginn!!!
it started with a lot of welding to reconstruct the inner wheelwels
and installing the engine :-)
note that we had to mesure our adaptor plate ourself!!!
Because type4 tranny's are different then bustranny's
we designed new lowered shocks
they can be set from -13 to -25 cm
mouted the radiator
made a completely bolton support for the engine
bolts on the original Subaru bolts and the original TYPE4 supportmounts
mounted oilcooler and airfilter
offcourse lost of other work was done
mounting the gasolinepump
return line for the gasoline
did the intire wiring harnass
Implemented it into the 412
overhaul of the mechanixs of the 412
and finally testrun :-)
movies on our blog (and ofcourse lots of details...)
sincerely
Sancho
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| posted on May 15th, 2007 at 08:22 PM |
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more info of the First European Bugin
[ Edited on 15-5-2007 by Sancho ] |
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| posted on May 15th, 2007 at 08:41 PM |
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That is great!
Pay your debts, CxxT
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pete wood
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| posted on May 16th, 2007 at 04:48 PM |
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very cool. welcome to the wet side of the force :vader
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| posted on May 16th, 2007 at 08:43 PM |
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Very nice, neat work.
Well done.
A POSSE AD ESSE.
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| posted on May 17th, 2007 at 03:17 AM |
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thxs alot!
We did put alot of effort in making this conversion as clean as possible!
Engineerd the enginebrace the front suspension, radiator setup airfilter and oilcooler setup...
First think second think again and harder ;-)
3 mesure
4 construct
But at the end it's all worth it :-)
When you look at it in person it's almost like a factory setup
Only thing that has to be tested yet is cooling at long distance and high speeds :-)
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| posted on May 17th, 2007 at 09:11 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Sancho
Only thing that has to be tested yet is cooling at long distance and high speeds :-)
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and big burnouts of course. :P
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| posted on May 18th, 2007 at 12:36 AM |
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Wow, what a lot of work.
Looks like you guys have done some nice work. Good to see a 412 getting some "improvements"
Can't wait to see some more pictures of it in action.
You have one nice looking notch also!
Richard
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| posted on May 25th, 2007 at 08:40 PM |
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now i'm feeling inadequate just finished fitting a window winder on my own well a little help from murray scott glen phil pod dave boris mike alison
and barb
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| posted on May 31st, 2007 at 04:55 PM |
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thxs for the kind words!
we love the appreciation for this conversion,
and like it very much because it isn't a hack job it's almost like this engine is meant to be in this car!
My notch was my first conversion (1600 twincarb)
and if you want to see a little movie 0-160 km (0-100mph)
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=4771425479632492329
Yesterday we passed our kind of MOT so soon you'll see some drivingmovies :-)
During the drive to the MOT we noticed that in citydriving with max speed 95km our fansetup did the work great...
So testing it at higher speeds will be next :-)
Offcourse we can still improve with a better cooler and EVANS cooling liquid
or with a little extra cooler placed in the airflow
We finally got our "track who visits you-map" on our blog working,
so it would be nice if you guys give ous a little visit, that would get some marks from Australia on our map
Sincerely
Sancho
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| posted on June 1st, 2007 at 12:49 AM |
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Now you should put a Impreza WRX EJ20ET motor on you list of 'swaps to do' :thumb
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on June 8th, 2007 at 09:26 PM |
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we worked on the handling yesterday :-)
so up with the DOWNFORCE
just kidding,
We wanted some more fresh airflow into to enginecompartment at higher speeds!!!
Tested it with the "wires" you see hanging at the rearwindow
from 40 to 100km/u they really are sucked under the engine lid,
and with normal driving it cooled a lot better then before!
We coudn't test a full speeds because we had a little radiatorleak before 
So steady on the throtlle
Sincerely
Sancho
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| posted on June 13th, 2007 at 09:29 PM |
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worked very hard on the car
"Found and solved some problems:#1 our water cooler had a leak - replaced it#2 the engine didn't idlle - forgot to close the vacuum port for the
servo pump #3 couldn't get over 5000 RPM - air filter full of dust !#4 vacuum switch was death - replaced itRead out the ECU - everything ok nowWhile
test driving we had a problem every time the turbo got under boostThe car tended to "hold in" under boostWe installed a mechanical inline fuel
pressure gauge and a vacuum/boost gaugeEverytime the turbo "got in" the fuel pressure dropped to 0.8Bar instead of the consistant under no boast
2BarOur suspision would be that the fuel pump can't deliver enough pressure or flow to cope with extra needed fuel injectation under boost of
0.5BarTomorrow we will get a NEW fuel pump - fingers crossed"
and yesterday cleaned de fuelpump again and tested
we did got 4bar fuelpumppressure on full boost (notice our testsetup)
and today we order a new pump, afterthat we change rims and tires,
test some more, order a new radiator
and we are ready for EBI
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| posted on August 16th, 2007 at 05:59 PM |
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at EBI I chrashed the gearbox
Also we had 1 leaking cylinderhead...
So what to do....
we stripped our parts 411
changed the box of our racecar in 2 hours
And put our spare engine together!
Everything is now ready to reinstall!
We hope we have better luck with this tranny,
so we can finally get some roadmovies to you guys...
Sincerely
Tanguy
VW 412 with 1.8 Turbo and homemade suspension
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| posted on August 16th, 2007 at 07:42 PM |
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Hope it all goes well from now on!! Have you got any 411 parts left??? What rims did you fit??? Great read...makes me wanna dump a 2.5 turbo in
mine....:vader
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| posted on August 19th, 2007 at 04:43 AM |
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Hy all...
The Duck is Back
Driving back :-)
The Duck together with some friends ;-)
Watch our blog for more pics,
movies will follow soon...
not much 411 parts left... just ask :-)
Can't find the name of the rims right now...
Sincerely
Sancho
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| posted on August 20th, 2007 at 02:59 AM |
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the wheels are KPZ's
VW 412 with 1.8 Turbo and homemade suspension
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