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    This is kind funny, Iwas just lookin around on the web and found the gang from volkrods hitting this site as well.Great minds...
    The open minded responces from you guys here is nice to hear.I love all kinds of cars it normally the owners I have the problems with. I'll be checking things out here, now that I know of at least 2 sites that aren't full of dorks. Take care, Michael

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    hey to bug pickup

     



    couldnt believe the pic of the primered bug pickup coz my cousin just built one. he had a steel tonneau bed cover made and a convertible top on his. way cool. I gotta get a pic of his posted here 4 u.

    AnYwAy have you SEEN the latest hod rod magaziNe? It has a pic of a bugs badass fenderless rear eng with 17" (?) wide tires. The caption says it has a 440 hemi overstuffed inside the cab?

    In ~1970 there was a pic of a toronado drivetrain in a bug and also in the back of a 911. guess that's what got my latest project started years ago.

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    For all of you VW fans check this site out, especially anything concerning Dean Lowry.
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    Originally posted by Don Shillady
    Hey, no offense intended here, VWs are nostalgic for me and it might be fun to build a really big engine with the latest available parts, but I wonder if anybody out there has a VW with a Corvair engine? My younger brother had a '60 Porsche coupe with the smaller 110 H.P. Corvair engine and the engine cover would just barely close over it. It had the bad property of suddenly throwing the contents of the glove compartment into the back seat upon acceleration in low gear! Now that was a sleeper and perhaps a precursor to the Porsche flat-six models. Of course the engine rotation is reversed and the "right" way is to buy expensive rear gears, but the easy way was to merely flip the ring gear over and it worked pretty well. Another way is to buy a reverse-camshaft and run the engine backwards but I do not recall if the there were piston pin offsets that had to be changed, so it was easiest to flip the ring gear in the transaxle and let the engine run as it was designed. I guess Corvair engines are scarce today, but If I were building a VW today I would look hard for a Corvair engine. It was an interesting play on words in the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the first one with Steve McQueen) because in that movie there was a dune buggy based on a VW pan with a Corvair engine and no doubt using a "Crown Adapter". What this thread needs is a picture of a VW with a Corvair engine! Maybe someone on this Forum has a picture of the Thomas Crown Dune Buggy (some folks on this Forum have some amazing pictures!)? Still no offense intended, at one time or another I rebuilt or replaced every part on a pre-SuperBug ('60-'66) except to rebuild the magical wunderbox transaxle so I have about 20 years of VW memories. Just reminiscing.

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    Will this work for you Don? This was a Corvair /Bug I built a while back. It got me started dragracing Corvairs . As a Volksrodder, I'm now building a 302 F@#d nitrous 1950 Split window Bug. I've still got lots of Corvair parts and you're right that they are a powerful engine for a bug.
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    Looks like a good diverse group ya have here, decided I'd have a poke around & see what y'all have to offer. But cant see anything w/o bein a member, amkes lurking difficult for someone who likes to see. So, if I'm gonna be a member, may as well post.
    I lurk around on the HAMB, occasionaly browse the VRods board, & am active on the Rod&Costom.com board as well as the ShopTalkForums.com board.

    I went for the Volksrod thing for the simple reason that most everything else has been overdone. I love the 32 Ford, but if I see another tricked out highboy, I'm gonna barf.
    I am building everything by hand, I do all of my own work & am having a blast with it. Most of my parts come from Speedway Motors, but I've taken parts from all kinds of cars. Mazda seats, Nissan steering column, Mustang steering box, Porsche M/C, GM brakes, it's a well rounded mutt, kinda like me!
    I get tons of good comments & the reactions are always amusing, car shows are always fun too, thankfuly the ones around here welcome ALL cars, so i haven't run into the problems my fellow rodders in CA have.

    The engine I have now isn't anything special, trying to get the body done first, but if you think you cant get the pure surge of power you can get in a V8, you might wanna start lookin around. I cant count how many street legal VW's I have seen at the drags BEAT on V8's all day long. Imagine 250+ HP in a car that weighs in under 2Klbs, the technology is there, & more people are getting more of it.
    May not top out at over 180 MPH, but when you get to your top speed in just a few seconds, you get pushed into your seat, HARD.

    ANYway,... Need that soap box for parts storage!
    It's a growing trend, & the applications are endless. The attraction isn't so much the inexpensive aspect as much as the rarity.
    It will be some years before someone pulls into the local drive in with a car JUST like mine, & I kinda like that.

    For those interested in how it got where it is, I have a thread in the "picture gallery" section on www.shoptalkforums.com, title is 70 Beetle VolksRod
    I dig ALL cars, old & new, whether they were hammered out of american iron, German steel, or Japanese tin cans. Being unable to appreciate them all is missing out on a world of great things.

    But thats just my opinion.

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    Been playing with VeeDubs for a couple of decades now, and a Corvair engine is the "old school" way to get a lotta HP but in a pain in the butt way! Put together a full circle crank, H-rods, big valve Street Eliminator heads, big Weber dual carbs, and a T-3 turbo stuffing 13 psi down thier throats, and you've got a 250 hp VW engine without the overwieght factor! Mine sounds like a pissed off small block Chevy, and on a 1200 lb. trike, runs like one too!


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    I dig this VolksRod deal, never saw one until someone started this thread, and I keep an eye on it for new posts. My question is, has anyone built a VW with a frontend that isn't the original trunklid (hood?)? Like a 30's car grille or something? Those bodies look cool with a straight axle, but I'd like to see one with a Deuce grille or something like that. I seem to remember people putting '40 Ford grilles on them back in the day. I'd like to see what that looks like if anyone's doing it.
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    Originally posted by DaffysTrike
    Been playing with VeeDubs for a couple of decades now, and a Corvair engine is the "old school" way to get a lotta HP but in a pain in the butt way! Put together a full circle crank, H-rods, big valve Street Eliminator heads, big Weber dual carbs, and a T-3 turbo stuffing 13 psi down thier throats, and you've got a 250 hp VW engine without the overwieght factor! Mine sounds like a pissed off small block Chevy, and on a 1200 lb. trike, runs like one too!
    VERY NICE! I agree that the Corvair is "old school", but this was in the early '70's and VW technology was in the early years. Corvairs were cheap and plentiful... with turbos!!
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    awesome!

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    you don't even need the hairdryer to make your VW scream... I have a pump gas, N/A 2.3L VW lump in my car and its P:I ratio is 10.2:1 that is more than enough to put you back in your seat!
    VW power... More expensive than ever!
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    just figured i would chime in here.i am in the process of building a v8 bug and am a member on volksrods as well.it is nice to see other hot rodders accepting us for what we have done to our cars.my car will be sporting a 350 chevy with a 2 speed powerglide.and my hopes are to have 350 to 400 hosepower to the rear wheels when i am done. again just chiming in.now i will go and read more on this forum.
    go like hell till the wheels fall off.

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    Lightbulb Hmmmm.....

     



    The wife will be pissed as I JUST GOT the El Camino about three weeks ago, but I think I see one of these in the VERY NEAR future
    Besides, the ElCo doesn't get the gas mileage to be a daily driver......
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    Not sure, but it takes 4 guys to lift the front end and set it on a saw horse in the parking lot at the high school. At least that's how many it took when we did it to Mrs. Robinson's VDub when I was in high school!!!!!!~!
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