Thread: VW rat rods? whats up?

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John,
How long did it take you to learn to shift left handed?
I had rented a space for our tool shop from "The Trike Shop", You can only watch them test drive a trike or two everyday! before I had to have one, and then came a deal I couldn't pass up. I have been driving mine 6 yrs now. I have different motors, that I can switch it in 1 hour, I had 2332 but a rod went, I have 2 Brazil blocks, I have everything to but together my turbo motor, I don't know which cc I'm going to use, I have 4 sets of P&J's new in box's, but everything I have, cars, garage, house, shed, are all are packed, to move to Tn as soon as my house sells!!!

Pat

Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

John,
How long did it take you to learn to shift left handed?
I had rented a space for our tool shop from "The Trike Shop", You can only watch them test drive a trike or two everyday! before I had to have one, and then came a deal I couldn't pass up. I have been driving mine 6 yrs now. I have different motors, that I can switch it in 1 hour, I had 2332 but a rod went, I have 2 Brazil blocks, I have everything to but together my turbo motor, I don't know which cc I'm going to use, I have 4 sets of P&J's new in box's, but everything I have, cars, garage, house, shed, are all are packed, to move to Tn as soon as my house sells!!!

Pat

Wow now that you said something about It. I never even realized I was shifting left handed Geese!!
and I not even blonde My biggest problem was staying on the dang thing I'm use to riding bikes and leaning into my corners not counter leaning the frist time I road it I was so anxious to ride it I jump on fired it up and and down the road I went until it came to the first turn I went one way and the bike went the other I quickly got up and made sure nobody was looking If they were they were probably rolling on the ground laughing thank God I was only going 5 or 6 mph

hey hemi I joined a club after I got my trike called the Btw really a great bunch check out the web site and other trikes http://btw-trikers.org/uploads/home.php until next time ride safe

your right, once you have owned a souped up bug it is hard to get away from. Which brings me to my next comment. See what you think. A front engined air cooled 31 Ford Five Window Coupe, using a 3444cc air cooled vw engine mated to a chevy tranny. The car would run on E85 or Methanol so I dont have to run cooling tin, also it would be turbo charged. This is a project I've been kicking around in my head for some time now, funds aren't there to start on car yet. Tell me what you think, good or bad, I can take it. By the way this engine will be capable of well over 500hp, and street driven!

This is what I built back in the eighties down here in Florida. It was a fun car and hopefully somebody has seen her. Locating her is more difficult than I thought.

Originally posted by Bob Parmenter
Not really hard at all David. His name was Dr. Ferdinand Porsche.

Oh Duh! thats right! we'll he's one of them, who are the rest? Still, impressive

heres mine...4" chopped carson top, 37 ford tail lights, 32 ford dash, louvres in the lid, raked, no side glass, ivory tuck n roll, molded handles & moldings, 2165 stroker fuel injected banger..

'nuther

Originally posted by drg84
Oh Duh! thats right! we'll he's one of them, who are the rest? Still, impressive

Let's see...

Engine:

Karl Rabe and Xavier Reimspiess

Streamlined design:

Porsche was inspired by previous models by Benz and Rumpler

These three engineers were working for Dr. Porsche when the project was brought to him:

Younf Bela Berenyi, Rabe, and Kales

Source: Bill Fisher, How to Hot Rod VW Engines, pp. 1-6

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Happy Hot-rodding!

John

Originally posted by NVRRDUNN
heres mine...4" chopped carson top, 37 ford tail lights, 32 ford dash, louvres in the lid, raked, no side glass, ivory tuck n roll, molded handles & moldings, 2165 stroker fuel injected banger..

Hey is your dad Tom Pogano ?

Hey Streets, would ya strap yourself in this thing for a quick ride down the quarter mile!!? Its got a Mustang 2 IFS and a 406ci huffed Chubby under the trunk er, hood...

Real nice job on your VW NVRRDUNN!!

Larry M.

And another probably inline with the topic at hand.
Larry M.

Originally posted by Streets
Nope!! NOT even if "Techie" said it passed inspection... I would rather be SAFE than sorry... Yanno what I mean jellybean??

Yup, me think I does.
Larry M

Hey everyone! I just joined this forum mainly because of this thread. I am a "Volksrodder", and I am a member of Volksrods

I love Hot Rods, and I love VW's so finding the Volksrods forums was a dream come true. Check out the May 2004 issue of VWTrends magazine for a cover story on Volksrods.

They guys over on the forum are all gear heads, and a lot of excellent information on VW's in general. They also have a love of american hot rods, but really have a taste for something different, ala... Volksrods.

Go there and check it out if you really care, otherwise, let it go. We all have something in common, we love cars, and making the cars we love to drive our own.


Here is a link to one of the badest Volksrods around. This was a 6 week thrash that turned out one of the coolest Bugs around. Walt and the crew can be found on the volksrods forum as well.
Make sure you check out how they did the chop top, it is a one of a kind "Letherman Chop".

Rat Patrol

Hi Andy and welcome to Club HotRod.
Nice site over at http://volksrods.com and what a cool job they did on The Rat Patrol VDub.
Larry M.