Put your car on a diet.

[Racelook]

Maybe I'm blind.. but i can't find the fiberglass doors on there site.

Can anybody give me the direct-link or can show me the way where i can find them on there site.

Grt Wiebrand

[boygenius]

Originally posted by Racelook
Maybe I'm blind.. but i can't find the fiberglass doors on there site.

Can anybody give me the direct-link or can show me the way where i can find them on there site.

Grt Wiebrand

SORRY. www.markvfiberglass.com has the doors for $197.50 each. They weigh 10.5 lbs. Just type in the keyword DOOR in the space provided and it will bring you to them.

[boygenius]

I weighed my chassis tonight. 150 lbs. (68.1 kg) That is completely bare, not even paint. (1969 IRS)

[hybrid_john]

Not bad, there has to be a way to lighten it up a bit more without sacrificing saftey and quality. If your not gonna use a rear seat maybe you could cut the pan halves out and replace them with fiberglass ones, and even the rear luggage compartment ( fire wall, etc.). VW Innovations (Glass Action) sells them. I dont really know how well that would work but its an idea. They said the pans bolt in, you could just use fiberglass resin or bondo to seal and smooth them out.......

Check em out: www.vwinnovations.com


John

[boygenius]

My pans are brand new and I am modifing my fire wall for a hideaway turbo.

[Wally]

On the matter of weight: Last weekend I just saw a 2,0 type 1 with Oettinger Nikasils (90 x 78,4) that weighted (are you sitting?) 85 kg and produced 211 hp at the dyno at 7000rpm with Porsche cooling, custom exhaust with motorbike silencer and fan belt on.
Engine has a compression ratio of 10,8 :1 , DTA efi and will be used in 'dirt racing' (space frames).
Mag case and alu cylinders save a lot as well...

One other thing to think about: the ligther your car, the smaller your brakes can be. Try a avoid heavy porsche vented rotors if weigth is your goal.

Light weight stuff is about as costly tho as more hp

Greetings,
Walter

[samcat]

Originally posted by zen
so how did you choose to mount it? pics?

Cya,
Sam C

[njv]

hi
sam tip for you if you take a hose from your eberspacher inlet and run that to your car as well you will efectively have re-circulation cutting down on the heaters cycle and ensuring faster warm up to boot . i will take a picture of how my battery is fitted to the front of my typ3 and try and post it .

[samcat]

Originally posted by njv
hi
sam tip for you if you take a hose from your eberspacher inlet and run that to your car as well you will efectively have re-circulation cutting down on the heaters cycle and ensuring faster warm up to boot .

Yeah, its on the cards... Just a case of finding somewhere suitable to take the pipe to to get nice air from the cabin....

Cya,
Sam C

[zen]

you super guys have it made for the front battery placement.

[boygenius]

Anybody know how much weight a one piece front end saves.

I was thinking about one since I need so much bodywork up in front it would be easier to cut it off and use a one piece front end.

Does anybody make a widened one piece front end.


If I get a quote to make a widened one piece front end would anybody be interested.

[vujade]

Dont do a one piece front end! It will make your car too light in the front (which is bad for handling, good for drag racing) and it will make your car less rigid too.

You could always use a fiberglass hood & fenders but stilll leave your car intact & uncut.

[boygenius]

Good point.

I kinda figured that but wasn't sure.

Thanx.

[njv]

hey
where would you put the shopping with a one peice front end to

[DORIGTT]

C'mon njv!

What the heck are you thinking! Who carries groceries in their V-Dubs anymore?

These vehicles aren't pack animals! They are prime specimens of what a car can be (if it were 30 years old and they didn't have acid rain when it was built):silly:

I strap the bags in the baby seat!!!