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volkdent September 17th 2004 15:21

Questions about volkdents ride
 
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Vincent September 17th 2004 15:28

Looks like an interesting project. you want to put up some details of what you have planned?

volkdent September 20th 2004 02:01

I've owned this car since I was 15, I'm 32 now! From age 15-18 I completely disassembled the car(sans the motor and tranny), sandblasted, smoothed, filled and painted everything, and them it went back together. It stayed that way until 1999, when something started to make noises AGAIN, and I said forget it, I'm going nuts on this thing. I pulled the motor to make it official and it sat until 2004.

From about 2002 until now I've been planning what to do with it. I knew I was going water cooled, and my original thoughts for power was rotary. The trouble is that I want a car that handles too, and because this IS a lifetime project, I decided to go all the way.

I think the double wishbone front end popped into my mind by itself, and has been growing ever since. People I've learned, discussed, and shared things with include:

Bolts-On

Dobergoose

Ricola Racing

and without doubt the person who has contributed almost everthing that is really important

Rorty Racing

As far as powering this thing, I realized that everything hung out the back of a bug is just a pendulum. Porsche fought with it for years, and unless you want to plant a complete late Porsche suspension into your bug, the only way to get the weight forward is just to move it. Thus the midengine 1.8t.
I wanted something reliable, powerful, relatively lightweight, and VW.

Nobody has ever done this before that I'm aware of, but someone who has been working on it for awhile, but has recently stopped, are the Coopers at

Central VW Audi

Ask away with any questions you have. My email can be reached by going to my website and clicking "Email" at the bottom. Also on there at the top of the home page are the links to the bug stuff, the 1.8t conversion and double wishbone links.

The Ford-VW-Bimmer Page

It's going to be a long haul, so don't hold your breath, but I have a pretty fierce determination, so it will happen!

Jason

Vincent September 20th 2004 15:42

wow looks like a big project. I have toyed with the mid engin idea but i am going with the 13b turob rotary so the weight is not that much more than the vw motor and will be offset by the rads up front. Good luck with your project.

volkdent May 9th 2005 19:38

I took all the parts over to Walt's Custom Services today. He's doing up another amazing Rat Rod of his own. Anyway, the new project he's working on is my front suspension, so as I get pics, I'll post them.

Jason

volkdent November 27th 2005 00:14

Updates will be here:

1.8t Conversion

and here:

Double A-arm conversion

volkdent December 24th 2006 13:38

Haven't worked on my baby in earnest for months now, just been moved around and washed, but no progress. It's been a very busy year, mostly with real estate, very productive, but not much in the play catagory. I don't really do New Years resolutions, but I'm hoping to get back at it shortly. I have all the building materials for the brake system and hydrolic clutch, cooling system is almost complete, and one call to Javad at 034 Motorsport will get me a premade wiring harness for the 1.8t so I can hook the IIc ECU up. Throttle pedal is still not found/fabbed, but a piece of string will work-suicide throttle borrowed from Mikey of Orange County Choppers;)

Jason

volkdent March 23rd 2007 22:20

A link to the pics I've posted thus far on The Samba.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/alb...uthor=volkdent

I'll be getting some new pics up soon of the brake and clutch system.

Jason

The Pirate July 14th 2007 17:41

I have a few questions for you.

1- I see that you went with a double wishbone in the front. Why not in the back?
2- Have you considered dreaming up a double wishbone front end for supers?
3- Why is there what seems to be tie rods for a rack and pinion steering unit in the rear suspension of the car?
4- What spindles were used up front and what spindles in back?
5- How can I get as crazy as you? Are there lessons involved?

volkdent July 15th 2007 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Pirate (Post 60324)
I have a few questions for you.

1- I see that you went with a double wishbone in the front. Why not in the back?
2- Have you considered dreaming up a double wishbone front end for supers?
3- Why is there what seems to be tie rods for a rack and pinion steering unit in the rear suspension of the car?
4- What spindles were used up front and what spindles in back?
5- How can I get as crazy as you? Are there lessons involved?

1) The front was a large enough project for awhile!!! I actually have plans for rear suspension redesigns too, I'm not sure if it will be double-wishbone though.

2) By just changing the mounting system, my front end would fit just fine, actually it might be easier due to the Super having a rack and pinion system already.

3) The rear end is actually the front end of a Golf MkII, so the rack is still there. It is welded in place, so it doesn't steer, but it was the easiest way to make things work for now.

4) Stock Karmann Ghia spindles up front, MkII Golf spindles in rear.

5) When I built the bug around age 17 I painted the pan and all the parts with very poor ventilation and no respirator, I think that was a good start!!!

Jason

The Pirate July 16th 2007 15:59

2) By just changing the mounting system, my front end would fit just fine, actually it might be easier due to the Super having a rack and pinion system already.


Hmm. Walk walk me through this. I am very interested.

volkdent July 17th 2007 11:58

My suspension bolts to the front of the frame head, so a bracket could fabricated and welded to suspension to bolt it to the stock front SB mounting points, and the rear mounts already attach to the standard body mounting bolts.

Jason

The Pirate July 18th 2007 22:58

Last one.... for now. LOL. So would the the front trunk of the super have to cut or altered to make it fit? If yes would there be a way to alter the unit to minmize or eliminate any trunk intrusion.

volkdent July 19th 2007 13:12

No, no cutting on the body, but I realized that the super doesn't have the space between the pan and the body to slip the suspension into like the standard, so there would have to be an additional plate built like on the rear of mine that made it split. I really think for a super I would just redesign the whole mounting system, I think it would be easier and probably end up being better than the standard one.

Jason

volkdent August 9th 2008 17:07

Ya think maybe it's bent? It finally would not self-heal and just kept draining coolant, so a new one is now ordered up that is about an inch shorter top/bottom and about 3 inches wider to maintain the same surface area.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/467644.jpg

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/467643.jpg

The right hand fan is totally crushed, so I've got a new one to replace that one. I'm kinda sad that the new radiator won't fit the fans so nicely, they're going to hang over the top and bottom slightly.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/467642.jpg

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/467641.jpg

Luismj September 1st 2008 15:30

GTI turbo beetle
 
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Dear volksdent, I see your project and congratulation to this!

i have one 1976 brazilian beetle GTI 2.0 16v turbo and use front radiator. The front is different but the some problem...
Different country's, languages but the some passion!
Look the pictures.

volkdent September 2nd 2008 19:35

That's a pretty sweet ride!!! How many HP do you think you make with that motor?

Jason

Luismj September 9th 2008 00:56

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My car at this time have only 270hp(ethanol powered), but in Brazil if you have "hard" money its go to 900hp up :eek: Dyno record 950hp!

http://www.fueltech.com.br/ler/1/3/3...de_de_potencia!

My little engine broken four original gearbox. Don't have many Porsche gearbox here and very expensive to import it. I think the original GTI gearbox its good solution but the project its very complicated. I'm use the box come to VW BUS KOMBI DIESEL. VW Gol BX inside 31x8 ring pinion.

volkdent September 9th 2008 03:17

Apparently Bus trannys are good for much more HP than stock trannys, so you may be just fine there!

Jason

volkdent September 30th 2008 18:21

Just a little update:

I've recieved the new radiator, it turned out OK, but a few things weren't the way I ordered it. For example I had calculated adding width equal to the removal volume of 2 rows off of the bottom to maintain the same total volume. Well, when I mentioned it would be about 7" tall, that number stuck and the 2 row removal number did not, so he actually removed 3 as compared to the original one I had to make sure he didn't go over 7", apparently not realizing that 7" was just an appox. height. The other thing that wasn't too smooth was the outlet had to have a couple of angles in it that were really messed up and I had those repaired here.

The big picture of the volume loss is still up in the air. I need to spend more time getting the ducting set up correctly. The old rad hung down into the airflow an inch more that the new one, so I might be expecting too much from just putting it in there without any ducting, but it won't run as cool as I want it, about 195 deg right now, which isn't too bad, but I'm only running 190hp, and I want to go 250-300. Ducting may make all the difference, but I really would have preferred the additional volume. So, may be OK, but I suspect I'll have to get another one made, a little taller and maybe even wider than what I have now.

Still no progress on the rear suspension re-design, that'll be a winter project, but I've got a little boy now so he takes a little more time away from the bug!

Jason

Panelfantastic October 2nd 2008 14:32

You might as well drag that cradle out to the garage and get him used to the sound of bangin' and wrenchin'! :D
Good luck on the cooling re-do, you're already in fairly good shape, a little tweak is all it needs.


Jeff-

volkdent October 2nd 2008 17:45

What's the latest with your Ecotec conversion.

Jason

Panelfantastic October 2nd 2008 17:59

I'll shoot you an email...


Jeff-

volkdent June 14th 2009 02:21

A real intercooler in finally. Mike at 034 did a great job of the install, I do think I need a retune though, having trouble with a low idle and I've even had it stall dropping too low after throttle off. At least I've got something to work with now...

Jason

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F-22A January 17th 2010 14:57

Jason
Can you tell me which type of Momo steering wheel you have there? How much smaller is it over a 60's Bug item, was it an easy fit to the coloum and do you know the dia of the centre cap - just wondering if a Porsche badge would fit in there.

Tks

F-22A January 17th 2010 14:59

Double post

volkdent January 17th 2010 16:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by F-22A (Post 73516)
Jason
Can you tell me which type of Momo steering wheel you have there? How much smaller is it over a 60's Bug item, was it an easy fit to the coloum and do you know the dia of the centre cap - just wondering if a Porsche badge would fit in there.

Tks

It's called a Race, kinda ricer but I like the looks of it. I think it's at least an inch smaller in diameter, but I havn't measured both of them and the car is at bodywork now. The column is the stock '60 column, I bought an adapter from California Imports up in Canada, then I built an adapter to make the MOMO work with that. The center cap is standard MOMO too, so I think someone will make a Porsche center cap that will fit, I'm sure many Porsche's have MOMO wheels while keeping the Porsche center cap. If you hit me up in a couple of weeks I'll be able to measure both for you.

Jason

F-22A January 23rd 2010 05:57

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Originally Posted by volkdent (Post 73519)
It's called a Race, kinda ricer but I like the looks of it. I think it's at least an inch smaller in diameter, but I havn't measured both of them and the car is at bodywork now. The column is the stock '60 column, I bought an adapter from California Imports up in Canada, then I built an adapter to make the MOMO work with that. The center cap is standard MOMO too, so I think someone will make a Porsche center cap that will fit, I'm sure many Porsche's have MOMO wheels while keeping the Porsche center cap. If you hit me up in a couple of weeks I'll be able to measure both for you.

Jason

Tks Jason. It may look a little Ricer but I like it and am looking for something like this for the 62. May have to look out for one of these on ebay.

volkdent May 19th 2010 01:08

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/681623.jpg

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/681624.jpg

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/681625.jpg

She went to the paint shop tonight! Still needs to be blocked, sealed, painted, color sanded, and polished. Seems like a lot but it's been moving along pretty well. The wheels however are done, Jazz Blue VW paint, it looks different in different light, but the camera does not do it justice!

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/681626.jpg

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/681627.jpg

Jason

ricola May 19th 2010 05:44

Big progress!

Bug@5speed(US) May 19th 2010 12:56

Nice,

Keep up the good work.. been following from the being.. Awesome.
Alex

Xellex May 19th 2010 18:11

love the colour on the rims, can't wait to see the full picture :D

JK Fab May 20th 2010 00:06

WOW Looks awesome Jason. Cant wait to see it painted !

NO_H2O May 20th 2010 07:53

Looking good man.

F-22A May 24th 2010 04:45

Yep, love the wheel colour.

Really coming along now Jason, what colour you going for?

JK Fab May 31st 2010 22:23

The paint has to be dry by now. Post up some pics man !!!

volkdent June 3rd 2010 11:17

Checked it out last night. Looking very nice, just a couple of spots I wasn't happy with so they'll have that fixed up in the next couple of days. Supposed to pick it up on Sat!

Jason


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