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"Pay no attention to that refrigerator, that is, not illegal, that is a personal, personally owned refrigerator" Haha, random. it made me laugh.

damn that was awesome

Hey braap, earlier you had posted an image of the flat plane you described may have an issue similar to the tire imbalance, but were you talking about the imbalance pictured at the left or the right? if it was the one on the right, the large counter weights on each end look as though they would counter act that sort of imbalance, so I was just curious as to what you ment by that.

That reminds me of the camshaft+connecting rod rope barrier my dad had made for his car. he welded a con rod to the end of a camshaft and strung rope through the small end.

how about using different colored candies and chocolates when you make the mold, to color in the windows, and possibly add white chocolate stripes on a dark chocolate Z

that's a pretty impressive looking car there. lol look at the first registration date.

those are some BIG tires. I've got 225/70/14 and those are a bit over 26in in diameter

Aluminum wouldn't make a very good heat shield. it absorbs and transfers heat far too easily. from what I read (I think tony d said this) Stainless steel works best

I've seen that tib too! pretty sweet little thing. the hard part is mounting the engine, though, if you had a 2+2 that can be easily solved. all you need to do is find the right setup (twin SR20DET's anyone?) and then you'd have one killer AWD setup. even if it DOES weigh a bit more, the fact that you've doubled your power output means each engine does indeed do less work. as long as you have the traction!

you don't need all that in a Z though. you'd have to be crazy to try and swap in the entire drivetrain lol.

for a stock car, and even a mild performance car, the stock nissan clutch is VERY GOOD. you should use the search function, it's been talked about a lot.

when I had trouble with my exhaust pipe being rusted shut, I ran the car till it was burning hot, then sprayed PB blaster on the pipe. the heat of the pipe, combined with the cooling of the PB blaster, caused it to get pulled into the threads. let it sit for a bit, and it came off without any work at all.

pfffff screw the stock electronics, just megasquirt the engine!

how big of an alternator do you have in your car? I like how those little speakers are mounted near the factory location.

so how much longer till enough have been sent to the junkyard for us to do a swap

so, are you going to put on some sort of bumper detail once you get the hood fitted on? it looks pretty damn nice

the rear only smoke is probably because of the way the GT-R drivetrain works. it's rearwheel drive all the time, until the tires start to slip. they probably have a way to turn attesa off and run it full time rearwheel drive. and those front tires aren't really THAT skinny. if they were wider don't you think the car would look funny?

Hmm that is true. if the body is straight without rust, despite missing parts it would be a MUCH better base than a rusty complete car.

yeah, definitely pickle that thing otherwise it won't be a fun job to clean up the damage.

haha that sounds fun. I remember when my dad first got his slicks, he decided to do one pass with the street tires. he said he got into 3rd gear at the track before it started to even MOVE! I didn't get a chance to drive it without the caster shims, but WITH them it was really nice. I suppose without them, it changes the suspension geometry quite a bit and will make it really twitchy feeling right? I remember for the weekend I had my dad's 68 ghia, with a 1776 (the engine/trans I was supposed to get as a graduation present, then he CHANGED HIS MIND) my friends neighborhood was currently being expanded, so lots of freshly paved road. that little ghia could light up the tires going around a turn VERY well. I got it pretty sideways and it was really stable. even got it to spin a 180 in a cul de sac. I don't remember what size tires exactly were on it, but it was a 135 up front (actually, ALL of our vw's had 135's up front haha!)

imo that's a bit too much unless it comes with EVERYTHING to put it back together. I got my Z for 900 bucks, it needs zero body work, but needed some engine work that I've just about all got sorted out.

oh, I know all about adding power to bugs, but I was trying to figure out what sort of trans configuration would be able to mount up to the engine and have it sit in the right spot. a bus tranny would probably fit the bill, but you'd have to get it flipped to run mid engine, not too much of a problem though, it's been done thousands of times. and yep, VW's twist not just the frame horns, but the entire body. my dad's bug up till we finally hooked the cage into the frame horns would run I think a 1.6 60' time after we tied it in, the 60' time's started to drop, and it was reacting MUCH faster (first time out he redlit REALLY REALLY bad because of how much harder it was able to put traction down) caster shims haha, yeah, I love those things, but I love camber compensators even more. especially with some KYB Gas adjusts. I had that setup i my 62. we were going to put in dropped spindles, but swapped in an adjustable beam with a set of caster shims. put kyb gas adjusts in and a camber compensators. it had the original hydraulic shocks in before. first time I drove it on the street I shat bricks because of how much roll that thing had in the rear end. after the part swap that car would handle like a gokart. even if it got sideways there was almost no body roll. imo a superbeetle would be a bad base to use for the swap an older bug is much simpler and lighter imo. my dad's 66 btw weighed 1800 in stock trim. then we added 100lb by adding in a roll bar, then took out 100lb in tar mat, glass, and extra metal that it didn't need. put a fiberglass front end, fiberglass doors, and all lexan windows and you can get it down to under 1200 real fast. the only big problem I can forsee is that when you flip the trans to work midship duty, the bellhousing sits to far forwards for the engine, but you'd have to take a lot of measurements and see where everything would sit. well...there was that Flat-8 3200cc bug built, with the entire back half of the shell being fiberglass, built by mating 2 1600cc engines together, and running it through a porsche transaxle. I found the site once and should've saved it, because I can't find it anymore. apparently it was one beast of a track car.

yeah, after I posted that a while later I thought of how big my bug was from the back seat to the firewall. In my head I had mis-judged the wheel well placement, so it threw off my mental calculations it would be a LOT of work, and imo you'd probably have to build a tube chassis to get everything in right, and drop the body on top, but it would be pretty neat. I'm trying to think what sort of trans you'd have to hook it up to though.

yeah, what he said. I've seen that head pop up on here time and time again, and i've only been here for a YEAR!

I would say it's somewhat touchy because whenever it get's brought up, people start asking where to buy it, if someone's going to make more, etc. imo it's the holy grail of Z parts. next to 1fastz's head that is