My german look 1302's

wrxJim · #1 November 27th 2006, 15:53

Hi everyone been sitting in the back ground for a few months and thought it was about time i put my 1302's on here. Ive decided that after about 3 years of owning the car it was time i pulled my finger out and put all the parts ive been collecting to good use. So resolution for the new year is to get on with it.
Spec so far:
Welded 1970 1302's shell (got that bit out the way)
944 S2 4pot brakes front and rear
boxter s 17" rims
911 915 transmisson
1997 subaru wrx turbo motor (lots of internal work to do to that)

IHI uprated turbo
megan racing tubular exhaust manifold
charge cooler
and so on.......
Im plannig on keeping body mods to a minimum as i like the thought of blowing the doors off a scooby or a porker in what looks like a standard bug.
Gonna update as i go so will keep you up to date on whats going on. Ive put some pics on of where im at (so much to do).

ricola · #2 November 28th 2006, 04:58

Welcome on board

There isn't going to be much left of that nice new firewall soon!
Rich

wrxJim · #3 November 28th 2006, 19:33

Thanks rich like the web site by the way. Tell me about it dont think there's going to be much left at all as im planning on raising engine and box and moving forward to gain some ground clearance, shame really but never mind deffo gonna be worth it.

ricola · #4 November 30th 2006, 04:59

What engine management do you plan to use with all those mods?

Will you be cutting through the torsion bars?

The megan headers are quite low, are you modding them for more ground clearance?

Rich

wrxJim · #5 December 2nd 2006, 14:45

Not sure about engine management yet hadn't thought that far ahead yet are subaru ecu's interchangeable between models? could possibly use a later model type or an sti.

Yeah gonna cut tosion bars out strenghten the chassis in the center and use a uniball set up from MBT which will do away with torsion bars.

Ive offered the header up to the engine and it doesnt seem to hang much lower than the sump so think ile see how it goes on the trial build.

ricola · #6 December 4th 2006, 06:10

ECUs seem to be interchangable but only if same year or very close... ie 93-96, 97-98 etc etc If you have a 97 this is probably one of the worst to go for as there isn't that much aftermarket support or tuning options, I think you will have to go aftermarket...

Rich

ricola · #7 September 19th 2007, 04:11

depending on where you are in the world, all supers have the trailing arm 'IRS', in europe semi-auto standards have it, in the US I think all post '69 bugs came with it as standard. You can convert early cars with some weld on brackets..

wrxJim · #8 December 21st 2007, 15:29

Think its time for my yearly update LoL progress has been a little slow seem to be doing more to my daily drivers than my big projects but heres a few new pics i have made some progress abit slower than i would like tho. My new 17mm ball joints came today early crimbo present for myself.

Fabricated the front mount for the 915.

And the rear this picks up on the subaru engine mountings so the engine and box are mounted as one unit rather than the engine hanging off the gearbox.

Dropped the body back on more cutting.

New ball joints. until next time keep it real guys.

wrxJim · #9 February 2nd 2008, 05:46

Just a quick update i now have the car on 4 wheels steering and front suspension is how i want it to be going to turn my attention to the rear now.

mccarthy500 · #10 February 29th 2008, 04:34

what axles are you using?

ricola · #11 December 22nd 2007, 12:41

Looks like you are making progress. Got any more pics of the front of the trans area? I'm going to be using a shortnose G50 so up until I cut I want to see as many different ways of doing it as possible!
Rich

mccarthy500 · #12 December 23rd 2007, 05:11

i second that notion

wrxJim · #13 December 23rd 2007, 08:15

Heres some from before i made the front mount ive removed the centre of the torsion bar so i could raise the whole lot up still very much a work in progress though. Naturally i will be fully bracing the area around the torsion bar.

Hope these are some help i will take some more later today. Have you done anymore to your cab yet ricola?

ricola · #14 December 23rd 2007, 08:49

Unfortunately I have rust repair to get into before the fun reconstruction stuff, I've been mostly collecting parts recently rather than making real progress. I may even end up making new framehorns as looking at Steve C's car there isn't much left after clearancing for a G50!

Look forward to more of your pics..
Do you know how much you have raised it up/moved it forwards? Does it still clear the bodywork?

Rich

mccarthy500 · #15 December 24th 2007, 06:13

Again I second that notion

I just bought a 915 and am planning to install it into my 1302 im going to mate it to a jdm 98 sti engine im also currently researching rear-coilovers so my car will be very similar to what your doing. so any pictures would be much appreciated. -John

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