Topic: Red Mini team Future
OK, now I have a problem
Do I run a fabulously themed almost-cheater mini, or do I thrash to bring an OMG I Scored SOOO f'n good VW bug to B-willow?
- the Red Mini 997 was in fact the ground work for an upcoming Vintage car or NASA car - it had all the used crap from off the shelves on it and it had not been made pretty
- but now... Damn, the sandblaster finally got to it (it's been at the blast-and-paint shop since Feb) and swears he's going to have it all pretty in less than a week.
~it looks like I have a bonafide race car~
1. I can put the same junkyard crap back in it, paint it with water-removable paint to look like it did (over a spendy pretty paint job) rip the front end off (it's removable) and put on a skanky but well-developed hollywood set I've had in the works for two weeks now
(Team USSR, 4-man bobsled, Lake Placid. We're not on steroids and we don't have a Russian space-agency developed bobsled, really, honest, swear to Lenin and embrace glasnost, really... but please ignore hood won't open and just drink fine vodka)
...but it's still going to be a dent-free nice looking mini under the paint and set-pieces. And NO, I'm not scorching a race engine that's developed specifically for 25minute run times in a 15/16 hour race - it will get a std austin america motor , the one from T-hill, but rebuilt and (possibly) a bit more reliable...
or
2. I have just got the ultimate Lemons deal - I got an ex-drag bug for $400, and a type 3 engine that looks almost new with a turbo hanging off of it for an additional $200. The bug has about 2/3 usable (*needs doorbars, diagonal and rear brace redone) cage.
- after looking at all the cool stuff was thrown in, there are plenty of spendy bits I shouldn't have got. But hey, it's Lemons and this is the kinda scoop we live for!
My previous bug experience is only i changing clutches for profit, so here we go...
- the engine, really, honestly, truthfully came from a Sanford-and-son sort of "we haul trash" guys ("Git'er done hauling", no kidding) that were emptying a foreclosure-moving sort of house - they live across the street and asked how much they could get in scrap for "an air-cooled volvo motor". I looked, it was a nice looking pancake dual port EFI with a pontiac sunfire computer attached, and a turbo hanging off the back, so naturally I told them "about $125, but I'll give ya 2 bills for it and you won't have to go to the recycle place" It was in my garage in 15 minutes.
- it has a nice Oberg style oil filter, an Empi extended sump and a new flywheel. The case is almost clean enough to eat off of - I think it was never run... stock exhaust manifold into an odd bus style but header wrapped mess of spaghetti. No output pipe from the turbo. A rats nest of oil lines.
- the bug is a '64, wide-5's, slammed in front with a weedy little itty bitty sway bar. Stock-looking shocks. gutted mostly (pep boys instead of Boge's), it only has a little keg 3 gal gas tank.
the rear has some sort of IRS hermaphrodite thing going on - still wide 5's. Am told it's a spool (pushes like it is, so yeah) geared for "107mph at 7k r's" (this is obviously not a T-hill car) and with a 2300 it ran 13's.
I would spend for a brake upgrade to discs, allowed in Lemons rules.
Multiple themes available for bugs I think of a new one about every 1/2-hour...
SO here's the question:
Run:
a Cheater mini in a theme of the ultimate cheaters
~The USSR athletes were pumped on steroids and used F-1 technology sleds in 1988
or
An honest OMG I can't believe I got this righteous deal - and neither will the judges even with documentation - Air-Cooled bug - that everyone says won't last, even the guys at BugFormance
???
Thoughts? Anyone?