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Jul 13, 2016 18:03:01 GMT
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The small diameter slicks will help acceleration but will require the engine rev harder over the finish line. Taller tyres are better on top end but at the expense of acceleration. That's ignoring the fact that a taller tyre can have a softer sidewall so bite harder at lower pressures... I wouldn't go for the welded diff if you want to use it on the road. I've pushed a friends car that was fitted with a spool and that was an ar5e to park - the outside wheel kept on skipping. Also if you snap an axle it'll put you in the wall. As for leaf spring stuff, I'd bin the lot and go for a four-bar, but in the interim, look at some of the American drag stuff and see the types of snubber bars that they use. Google Cal-Trac bars for starters!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Cool car! I read the first page and the last one, quite a transformation!
Now, to decipher the timing tickets... Low 14's are decent, and a 13 isn't hanging about either. Where you are losing time is off the line. Look at your 60ft times - on your 13 you ran a 2.20, but all the 14's were 2.3's and slower. Work on getting it off the line quicker and more consistently and you'll have no problem dropping your times. The turbo really helps to build up speed from just before half track onwards. Slicks might help, they did for me. My beetle with an 80bhp 1600 twin carb motor ran low 16's with 60ft times between 2.1 and 2.3 seconds. Bolted 6" wide 26" tall slicks on and hit high 2.1's pretty much every run. Close ratio gearbox got me down to 15.7, 60fts into the low 2.1/high 2.0 sec area. 185bhp 2276cc motor got down to 12.0 @ 109mph, 60ft times were down to high 1.5's, still on the same close ratio gearbox and slicks.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jun 19, 2016 16:30:29 GMT
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Johnny, was your Beetle a peachy colour? I remember one in that colour around '95ish, it's the only one I can think of with a rotary.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Nearly 2 years ago I got a bit of laser cutting done by mystery machine as a result of this thread. I asked for twenty triangles in 2 different colours. Only today have I finished it. The only reason it took so long was due to gluing acrylic. Turns out it is like kryptonite to silicone which I intended to use to bond the triangles together. Other glues were useless. It just simply doesn't allow anything to stick to it. Which I believe is due to the oil content. Anyway, yesterday I stumbled on a glue that actually did work. So I ended up doing this until 2.30am last night. Still not the best glue but a whole lot better than everything else It's a lamp shade, incase you're wondering. And it's fairly large. Got there in the end. I know, thread from the dead! Just had a read through from the start and it's a typical MM fest of suspense and outside the box thinking. Awoo's problems with acrylic have prompted me though. I've had a play with laser cutters at my last three schools (a Mercury, a Denford and an HPC, if anyone is interested) and we tend to cut a lot of acrylic, often with The sole purpose of gluing it together. The glue we use is an acrylic cement with the trade name of Tensol. There are a couple of different formulations that I've used - one very much like the glue you used to use with old Airfix kits that will fill small gaps if you are careful and the other a much thinner one that tends to work best applied with a dropper directly onto a join as it sucks in by capillary action. Not sure where to get it from as the technician at school always did the ordering!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 18, 2016 22:41:28 GMT
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I would get the chrome as bright as I could, cut and wax the paint to keep it as is, and paint the steelies to match the roof. Done. I'd be quite tempted to T-cut it a bit more and try to remove as much of the red as possible - the blue peeking through is beautiful!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 13, 2016 21:23:32 GMT
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Just read the last few pages and a few things cropped up. First, you say you aren't going to race in a series but drag cages tend to have a bar across the b-post hoop at shoulder height, so worth adding that in now. Second, if you can cross the finish line at over 150mph you need a chute, so again, worth building mounts in now. A junior dragster one will probably be plenty. Wheels-wise, CMS (Custom Metal Spinning) in California do really light spun aluminium drag wheels, as do Bogart. Finally, in the Pure Racing section of www.cal-look.no/lounge there a weight saving thread which is well worth a read. The Lotus looks amazing and I can't believe I missed the updates!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 13, 2016 19:45:14 GMT
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As for what to do this time, how about using more of the MX5, as in steering, front and rear suspension, seats and dash as well as the engine and gearbox?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 13, 2016 19:41:37 GMT
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What is it about Heralds being left in odd places? I know of a couple just sat on drives slowly being reclaimed by nature within 10 miles of me.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Ooh, a twin hot spot! Not common at all, so if you're changing the exhaust you'll also need to change the inlet manifold too. I had a group of year 10 and 11 lads strip a couple of Beetle engines - they loved it! If only they hadn't been knackered inside they would have rebuilt them too!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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That is a rare beast! Looks to be in very good condition too. I think I've got a set of MG Metro seats in my parents loft - any good to you?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I had a GP LDV many years ago, like Kustomkriss's white camo one on page one. Swapped it for a Karmann Ghia project, which was swapped itself years later for a '51 Beetle. I've been collecting parts for another one tho - got a new Manx body in bright red, a tax exempt IRS cabrio floorpan, and enough engine parts for a 180bhp 2276cc engine... think of a 4 wheeled superbike! I might be tempted to let that project go though, another idea has taken hold! Lets see if i can find some photos!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I went to have a look at this one a fortnight or so ago. The seller, Stuart, had taken a deposit on it but as I'm less than 10mins up the road I asked for first refusal if it fell through. Typically we've now got a new project and this has come up again! It's not as nice a base as Matt's but still lots of potential, and lots of good parts with it. I hadn't realised how wide they are - I've only ever really been around narrow body 911s. It needs some fibreglass work on the roof where a sunroof has been badly filled, in the spare wheel well and bulkheads, as it was cut for a front engined chassis, but it's now back on a beetle floorpan. It's got a roll cage fitted, and with a ball joint front and IRS rear, it's the best handling Beetle basis. The 002 bay window bus gearbox is there but not fitted, it's got a part built 2.0 litre type 4 motor, 4-wheel disc brakes, steel Porsche doors and bonnet, Porsche glass and seals and its rammed to the roof with parts. It's known to the Covin club and Stuart has lots of info about it so it should be fairly straightforward to register. I love Matt's car, and to be honest it's the reason I went and looked at this! I'd do this one differently though! It needs a 930 front bumper, dropping low over wide Fuchs alloys, that type 4 motor really wants a turbo bolted to it and keep it ratty - you've heard of the R Gruppe - this could be the start of the C Gruppe!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 29, 2016 18:50:13 GMT
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I've got the big brother A6 Avant with the 2.5tdi 5-pot, great car although mine is looking tatty now. High 40s to the gallon is quite do-able, and it just sits on the motorway and munches the miles. Put 16" wheels on mine from a later A6 and it feels lovely. Might drop the tyre profile on the front tho - it does sit a litle nose up.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Mar 28, 2016 17:48:49 GMT
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Nice, a little different to the Marina blue that most late models are painted. I had a Bahama blue '66 many years ago and that looked different colours depending on accessories - minty green with white Empi 5s and Opel Recaros as bought but by changing the wheels to polished 5s and putting stock black seats in made it look much more blue. What wheels are you going for?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Mar 27, 2016 20:40:04 GMT
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Nice one Matt, well deserved. Now go drive it!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Mar 10, 2016 18:38:33 GMT
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Awesome! I drove myself to my wedding in a car I finished two nights before!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Superb. Now for the tube frame and big flat four!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Nice thing about the lead is that you are far less likely to get cracking across a panel join too. Look at most cheap beetles with an older restoration and you'll see an angled line across the rear quarter panel - I always lead load this bit and then give it a tiny skim of bondo for finishing and it's stopped any cracking at all.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Feb 25, 2016 10:31:57 GMT
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My uncle had one of these many years ago - I seem to remember him saying that there are quite a lot of VW parts in them, the gearbox being one. No idea how true it is, but a mk2 Golf 4+e box might be a decent swap?
Also worth trying to shift into 5th anyway -Paintbox had a Caddy pickup with what they thought was a 4-speed box. Turned out to be a 5-speed with a 4-speed knob on it...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Feb 24, 2016 21:33:26 GMT
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I know that once you have a sad car that you are already committed to, a better one seems to turn up that also needs saving.. but this certainly looks extreme. Hope the next parts car is REALLY terrible Great work so far. Been there done that! Most of the bodywork was completed on my Beetle (heater channels, both front quarters, bulkhead, spare wheel well, rear inner wings, valances etc) when a '67 donor turned up that needed much less work. Can't keep them all though, so chopped up the donor. Wish I hadn't tho!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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