hellow all. this is my first and offical post. jay (2k4kcqs) has been at me to start a thread on here for my car.
so to get started im a huge vw guy and i love autocrossing. when i was young i fell in love with the "germanlook" style vw super beetles. germanlook style in a super is bacially building a better handling, better breaking beetle. so in short, building a porsche with a vw body. big wheels, big breakes, and big power are all good things. ever since then ive been slowly building one in my head to one day build. so all this started about 4 yrs ago. i bought a 74 super with intentions of a full build up with a type 4 motor, as soon as i got the car i fixed the rust and stripped the car down to a shell. well i moved and the project sat cause of me not really having the time nor the place to really work on it. so i then bought a second super. this time it was a 73 super. this time i wanted to keep it a driving project. i feel other then the 8 months it was down for 2 different motor swaps, i did keep it a driver. i took what i needed off the 74 and scrapped it. so fast fwd 3 yrs, i had a 73 beetle that decited to put in a vw vanagon motor. the only watercooled flat 4 vw ever built. its a really cool powerplant i think. i decited on this as it does share a lot of parts with the original type1 aircooled motor. i did try a type4 motor and it was just a huge disappointment. so after ive now done the wasserboxer swap into my car...i could not be happier. im running megasquirt 1 3.57board running both fuel and spark.
so one night on my way home i was actually tuning my afr's on the car and i had them just about dialed. well i got rear ended on my way home one night and it totalled the car out cause it did damage to the motor and bent both rear quarters heres how it looked before the wreck... . [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/B1531746-6C0A-4A57-ABE1-87F77CE15B4D-1471-000001B4ABA905D8.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/F871CA47-E567-40A3-A9CA-DCAC804DBA65-1471-000001B4A54C43CD.jpg.html][/URL]
and after the wreck... [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/IMG_20121129_224119.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/20121129_184652.jpg.html][/URL]
so after all that i started looking for the best super vw built. 75 was the best yr cause they came factory with fuel injected (suites my megasquirt as i dont have to run a return line, and baffled fuel tank) and also came factory with rack & pinion steering. so after 2 weeks of looking i was lucky to have found one in the Denver area. the dude claimed it was a rust free car that had just been painted. well as we all know, this was not to be so true. but lucky for me i know how to do all that. and the car was also the wrong color. see in 1975 vw ended the hardtop superbeetle. so all 1975 supers are a special edition called the "LaGrande" edition....i guess it means "the end". they only came in 3 colors, and all 3 where metallic colors. they came in a matallic blue, a gold/ tanish color, and lastly the color of mine, viper metallic green. and the green was the least sold of all 3 colors combined. so i have kinda a cool super beetle i guess...lol. so i have a build thread over on germanlook.net with all the pics leading up to this point now. so instead of me posting all the pics here from the past, ill just leave you with a link to my build thread and ill continue to update this one as well with new pics and content.
heres the link to my current build thread: http://germanlook.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11579
since jay and i went to wuste, ill post up the pics i have of my car from WUSTE 2013 lucky #7. heres the car as of the wednesday morning. i left for junction to meet up with jay that night. yes this car was a mad dash to get it some what done for the show...lol. i think im still catching up on sleep from this build bash i did. [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/IMG_20130527_225620_zpsa595b903.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/IMG_20130526_225856_zps398849f8.jpg.html][/URL]
wednesday night all loaded up and heading to junction. [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/20130529_235626_zpscc7e5558.jpg.html][/URL]
and from the show [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/IMG_0177_zps4a769895.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/IMG_8567_zps7233abac.jpg.html][/URL]