vw 1303 wbx turbo

I'll be curious how the cooling system holds up with some more use/testing/abuse. I learned a hell of a lot about cooling systems attempting and failing to make my watercooled bug cool water once upon a time. I'm just about ready to try tackling it again. Keep us posted!

Bryce

In reply to Nashco:

Very cool build love the color

The cooling system hold up just fine. Never gets hot and runs just like it should. I had the same setup in my white bug, and I drove it hard up mtn passes and never over heated. Only time it's ever gotten hot was when I took it to Vegas and I just had gotten the car done and didn't have the cooling system even filed yet. So I could drive it to the show I fill the whole system with water. Only reason it got hot was cause I thought I had hooked The fan up to a power and it proved not to be. Lol. I also use all the proper g-12 coolant since my motor is very prone to corrosion on the heads cause it's an all aluminum case and motor.

Awesome build, but Viper Green was a stock color for the 77's too

this thread deserves a bump. especially after its first real long distance road test and a couple track days under its belt. also now microsquirt powered.

Awesome build!

This makes me wanna build my beetle this way.

thanks Jay for the bump. im sorry to all, i dont post nearly enough in this great community/ forum. ill admit im bad about updating threads. i spend more time doing then i guess i do about posting. the car now runs on microsquirt v3, ls2 coils mounted direct on plug, crank fire. im super happy with the car thus far espically after my long haul to denver and back and all i had go wrong was a fuel pump failure. all in all im happy and im continuing to further improve upon what ive set out to do, build the best damn german look super and actually use it. GRM magazine hit me up around Dec. of last yr about doing a hot readers ride on the car. i provided pictures, but they where either watermarked, or the quality was too poor to use in a mag. right now im in the process of moving up to Utah as i got a job for a small Porsche shop out at Miller motor sports park called Air Power Racing. Im really looking fwd to the new job and experience. but with the moving and all the work ive been doing to the car, ive totally forgotten about getting proper pictures taken to send to GRM. but when i get settled in up in UT, i plan to get that taken care of. any questions about the car ill be more then happy to answer and ill get some more updated pictures posted up. thanks everyone.

ugh i dream of beetles like this, you my friend have an awesome bug

Said it before, this thing is cool as hell! Would love to see more on the microsquirt conversion. THIS thread has (has had) me looking for a beetle to play with after the upcoming move. We had one when I was a kid, but I was 7 maybe 8 and had no clue on how cool they were. I thought it was cool then just because dad had wired in a set of aircraft toggles that had to be in the right order and a push button starter when the ignition broke.

so im stopping by to give a little update to my thread. before i went on the long road trip with jay avid GRM poster/ best friend(2K4Kcsq) i updated the car from MS1 to a microsquirt unit, gm external 3bar map sensor, and mounted LS2 coils on the plugs. i also bought most of the crank trigger kit, and ls2 coil boots from mario that owns and runs thedubshop.net. if you ever wanna megasquirt a AC vw or even a watercooled one...he is your goto guy that makes all sorts of kits, sensors made just for the older vws.

also i never liked how is did my coilovers in the back. the shock length was too long with them fully compressed. so i found some new shocks that would work, and also made some new lower coil shock brackets, and made big pockets in the IRS arms to allow more room for the 2in. diameter springs.

As of right now my car has been in storage for close to 6 months, and im just dying to get back to work on it. well heres some older pics of the progress.

You forgot the pics! Lol

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That's more like it. Still doesn't quite capture the amount of modification that has been done to this car but at least we are getting somewhere

Wow, just wow! This is one awesome bug! Really making me miss my old 67.

@de80q thanks. its getting more and more parts at it here very soon. furutre plans include air/water intercooler setup, flax fuel sensor, e85, and im currently waiting on parts to make my own dual stage boost controller. summer should be fun. before the summer ends i like to find the time to build my spare motor.

so i sold my 17" wheels and have gone to a 15" for now and i added some R compound tires for the track season ahead. i also moved into a new garage with a friend thats a big BMW guy as you'll see. just for the future questions regurding the E21...its a replica Alphina. but its soon to be running megasquirt and will be turbo'd by summer. [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160110_162553_zpsngukzdsx.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s27.photobucket.com/user/cookvwgli/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160110_194016_zpsun0wriir.jpg.html][/URL]

The new rim/tire setup looks awesome. You need to get some on track photos!

Awesome build!

Are you still with APR? Are they going to be able to stay at Miller with the new ownership of the track? I used to do a lot of track days at Miller when I lived in SLC. I am now in Southern Utah.

@2002maniac im no longer with APR, and as far as my knowledge all present business will stay, but thats before that judge decided to over rule the purchase that Mitime (chinese company). ive moved back to colorado. i went and worked for Furniture Row nascar team, then realized that denver its just crazy expensive to live there so i've moved back to the grand junction area. im now working as a fabricator for a friends camper/rv place.

@accordionfolder ill get some up of the track day i did last yr with it.

just wanted to congratulate weston on not only his first feature article but also the cover photo of a new magazine called volksamerica