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 VWFREAK
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| posted on April 15th, 2008 at 06:52 PM |
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The madness continues. When will you learn Ian and stop doing things by halves. lol
Great stuff, your a man possessed.
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| posted on April 15th, 2008 at 09:09 PM |
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posted by kroozzn63
man that is so cool , you must have time on your hands good luck to you ,cant wait to see its shell on ist it gunna be a sleeper or a show pony?
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No show pony. I'll be racing the car at 1/4 and 1/8th mile events as well as motorkarna. This build is about taking it as far as I can, and then
driving it on the street.
Actually I rarely have any time on my hands. Self employed, on call, and I frequently work stupidly long hours and all weekend. I work on the car when
I can though and when am still awake enough to not accidently amputate fingers. Ive had quite a couple of good injuries while working on this project
though... Its been fun.
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Whats so special about the brackets that you need to send them to Whiteline to make?.... I have had loads of things laser or water jet cut locally and
its a very quick turn around....
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The brackets arent special at all and are all of a 1/2 hrs work. The delay is getting the swabars made. Ive cut up some old sway bars and welded
them back together so they fit the porsche suspension and clear the gearbox etc. Then they get sent away to whiteline to be used as templates to be
re-made from a single piece of spring steel. I cant finish the final mounts that weld to the rear torsion housing, and to the fron A-arm supports till
i have the finished bars back here to mount on the car.
So I got stuck into the car again this afternoon.
Brake lines done - check
3/8th supply and return fuel lines done - check
Gearbox reverse selection problem fixed - check
(it was something to do with the detent spring that locks out reverse. Once i took it apart and put it back together it started working again... go
figure?)
Im finishing the hydraulic clutch lines tomorrow. I'll post more pics then.
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| posted on April 16th, 2008 at 10:46 AM |
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3 weeks wait for custom stuff from witeline isn't that bad. I have waited 5 weeks for strut braces for current model corolla's and about the same
time for sway bars as well. they don't keep much stock on the shelf. they make it as the order comes in.
Great work Ian. I always appreciate someone who is doing something different from the norm. We found this doing my brother's Type 3 as there isn't
anyone out there putting a 2332 EFI turbo in a type 3 so a lot of stuff is custom made by us or made by fabricators we know. Not to mention the trial
and error factor!!! something we have done have been remade a few times cause we weren't happy with the first and even 2nd outcomes of things like
brackets and mounts etc.
This will be a very nice car when it's finished with power to boot!!!!
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| posted on April 19th, 2008 at 09:28 PM |
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I think Alex Holtz told me about that type 3 with the 2332 turbo a few years ago, is that the same one?
So today I finished the seat mounts and bolted the eats in place. All in all im pretty happy with how the car is looking now.
I also put the gearbox and shifter back in to make sure I could get reverse gear since having investigated why i couldnt select reverse last time. I
dont know why i didnt think of it before, but i think 1/2 the problem is the reduce ratio of the shifter I am using. Less throw means more force at
the gear stick is needed to select reverse gear, as the spring tension on the reverse lock out is amplified by the reduces ratio of the short shifter.
I think i'll be shortening the reverse lock-out spring in the gearbox a little to make it easier to select reverse.
Anyway, here's the pics. Latest updates really are only the seats, brake lines etc. But its nice to see it all together again. Im going to finish
the rear lower shock mounts tomorrow and then all that really remains is the hydraulic clutch lines and the anti sway bar mounts.
Cheers,
Ian
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| posted on April 19th, 2008 at 11:16 PM |
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if I didn't know better, I'd swear someone snuck up and hit you with a bat that had the letters "german-look" engraved on it. 
BTW, love the strut front, something I dreamt of at one time. 
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| posted on April 19th, 2008 at 11:19 PM |
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Yeah had the bright red cal-look bug with the 15" fuch's for a few years. Then the sillver body, but the tyres were really never wide enouugh to
call it a real german looker, and the king+link + swing axel just cant cut it for a real GL car.
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| posted on April 20th, 2008 at 06:37 AM |
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Awesome work Ian!
Back onto the engine soon I gather?
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That's mad Alan.
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| posted on April 20th, 2008 at 07:27 AM |
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That should be a fun car to drive!!
Looks so purposeful.
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| posted on April 20th, 2008 at 10:47 AM |
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looks great ian keep up the good work! are you going to trim the rear top shok mounts down or leave them for bump stops?
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| posted on April 20th, 2008 at 06:09 PM |
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Hey Ian yep same car. Been a long and expensive trip to get it to be driveable as you would know. Did have the engine together but influenced by
others breakages and new products onto the market and all of a sudden we're back at square one. total rebuild and design but getting close. Cranked
it over yesterday to check oil system and pressurize fuel system with new pumps etc. Found a couple of small leaks but apart from that all good.
So next step off to the dyno for the install of ECU and get it running!!
Progress is looking good on your front. Almost ready for the engine to take it's place!!
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| posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by LIFE IN THE LOW LANE
Progress is looking good on your front. Almost ready for the engine to take it's place!!
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Awesome work Ian!
Back onto the engine soon I gather?
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Yes true the engine wont be far away. Im still waiiting on the Rocky Jennings WBX case, though he has sent me some progress pics for it. Im hoping
for an update again from him soon. I believe he is custom making the bearings at the moment to allow the T4 center main T1 flanged crank to fit the
WBX case.
For the moment i am having to just imagine what it will be like sitting in the drivers seat with 2.5 lt of heavily cam'd turbo'd fury waiting to
shred tyres.
Cheers,
Ian
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| posted on May 20th, 2008 at 09:41 PM |
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Surely there has been an update in the last month
Come on where are the pics lol
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| posted on May 20th, 2008 at 10:29 PM |
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Sadly not much im afraid... I did call Fulcrum yesterday and was told that they sometimes take 4 weeks to manufacture custom sway bars (its been 4
weeks now...), and that they will be here when they are here.... in otherwords we are too busy to go chasing part for you at the moment.
On another note i do have some engine pics to share though. These are the first of many to come when the parts arrive from the US. This is the
machining of my Rocky Jennings Oxyboxer case. The case is a 2.1 waterboxer converted to air cooled, sleaved lifter bores, and re-located cylinder
head stud mount points. Rocky is modifying the case so it will support the flanged 88mm crankshaft, and has made a custom set of bearing to suit. All
the main studs are being replaced with raceware studs for extra strength. I will reveal more about the engine build when it starts in about another
month or so, safe to say all the parts are 100% VW porn.
The pics...
Engine case should arrive in 2-3 weeks.
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| posted on May 21st, 2008 at 05:14 PM |
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Very nice, this engine is going to be mad, always been a fan of the oxy boxer, the best of both type 1 and type 4. Big fan of Rocky Jennings work
too.
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| posted on May 28th, 2008 at 11:55 AM |
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just little of topic! wat happen with the motor you done subie heads on vw block?JVL
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| posted on May 28th, 2008 at 12:02 PM |
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Its in storage. Im finishing my own car first before i get stuck back into working on Warren's engine. It will happen next year probably.
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| posted on May 28th, 2008 at 01:57 PM |
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ok! thanks....it got potential!
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| posted on May 31st, 2008 at 10:27 PM |
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Well the sway bars still havent arrived yet. I suspect they must be still designing the machine thats going to bend them for me... so ive given up
waiting and moved on.
Today the body met the new chassis for the first time. The fit was reasonable... but there is going to be a fair amount of modifications to the rear
parcel shelf area to accomodate the 930 gearboxs fat nose cone and gear set. As you can see it will definatly be needing some custom guards.
More to come... Tomorrow im going to get a full days work in on it for a change.
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| posted on May 31st, 2008 at 10:51 PM |
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coming along ian! an extre 3" on each gaurd is going to look phat as!
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| posted on June 1st, 2008 at 12:48 AM |
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Eeeekkkk!
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| posted on June 1st, 2008 at 11:18 AM |
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Hi
Looking good. How did the front suspension improvements fit around the stock body? What ET are your wheels?
Steve
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| posted on June 1st, 2008 at 11:31 AM |
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Ill take a better pic of the body clearance to the suspension today. There is about 8mm clearence each side, so i guess i measured it just right.
Wheelbase is 2400mm and wheel track is 1735mm, the same as a 1988 1944 porsche. I cant remember the wheel offsets off hand... they are 996 twin turbo
rims if that helps.
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| posted on June 1st, 2008 at 06:36 PM |
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They gonna be some very phat guards there Ian!!
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 PM |
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lol.. I reckon you should slice the body down the centre...!
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 07:01 PM |
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Looking wicked, dude! Makes a nice change from a narrowed front end on a 6 volt-er 
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 08:59 PM |
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Tomorrow im going to get a full days work in on it for a change.
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Any interesting pics? 
Simon
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 09:26 PM |
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yeh i agree,cut her down the middle.
i love to cut.i 'll give ya hand .cut cut cut.
lol
keep up the good work.
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 PM |
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Sorry nothing new to report... Hardly got any work done on sunday despite my plans to spend the whole day on the car. Good news is that im taking 1/2
of tomorrow off so i can finish the trial fit.
At the moment its still sitting about 4cm high in the back as the later model style rear chassis-body mounts sit higher than the earlier model
chassis's. The rear shock mount cross bar is fouling on the parcel shelf a little too which is no big deal.
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yeh i agree,cut her down the middle.
i love to cut.i 'll give ya hand .cut cut cut.
lol
keep up the good work.
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Hmmm... I think that between what ive done with this car now, and what youve done to yours Westi, I am sure there isnt a purist on the forum that we
havent pissed off!
I think i prefer the wide fender look though... This is how wide it should look when done. 4" widened all round.
Cheers,
Ian
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 PM |
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nice one.
if you think we have pissed off a few purists.what till i star my 21 window.you will hear shreeck's of discust the whole world over.i can wait.
down sharon.
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| posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 PM |
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What would a purist be doing on the drag racing forum?
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