Topic: B-willow Team -ing w/bad ideas build-out... Beetle Bomb
'kay, you've been waiting... I shouldn't let the cat outta the bag, BUT... the "racecar"mini that only ran 19 laps might never get out of the sandblast shop, and then THIS showed up:
64 beetle - ex drag bug. Beat, but it's a bug, it looks too good - for a bug. will need to attack it with a hammer or something. or strip the paint that's covering the rust/bondo.
Wide fives, 5-1/2" wide - fake centerlines
drum brakes
IRS conversion
welded/spooled diff.
~cheap enough not to be cheating more or less than $100 after adding the engine and subtracting some sales items (MSD, extra headlamps and a few Drag parts I don't have a use for)
...and now the pudding:
an engine came to me off a garbage-hauling service "Git-R-Done", ya' know, the p/u truck with plywood sides and some guys w/prison tats...
They live across the street and asked if I knew anything 'bout "Volvo aircooled motors"
I had to look.
$200 later it's in my garage.
1600DP, NEW hardware on everything.
FI, but it has a pontiac sunfire/chevy cavalier system grafted on.
Turbo hanging off the collector T3/04 it looks like. Used.
almost proper plumbing - the outflow from said turbo was pretty low into the oil pan, dunno , if it would'a backed up, bad for turbo...
to inspect - took (stock) exhaust off and inspected - no soot in ports! New Brazilian engine?
Empi extended sump.
Screen-type external oil filter, cobble plumbed in a round-about way.
So...
The most common comment seems to be "let us know how that works out"
The most common advice is split between "buy the disk brake conversion" and Do NOT turbo.
the head-shaking is at the turbo, the pancake in a bug and the weird FI setup.
Plans include many mods (ghetto type of course) to mimic Baja500 cars - more oil, added in a surge-tank, oil cooler(s), external filter, make sure the fan shroud is 110%.
Questions:
The Sunfire/Cavalier computer - ANY ideas?
I have downloaded the wiring diagram.
Can it be flashed?
Can you fake the cam-position sensor by placing triggers on the pulley?
Will sequential injection work in a pancake V-dub? Turbo'd?
my alternate is a $15 DGV got from BugoRama
Turbo - internal wastegate. more or less, I shouldn't turbo an aircoolie. but if I did:
How do you set it to 3 or 4 psi?
How do you know what it's at w/o firing an engine?
Brakes:
Porterfield says I shouldn't have problems with R-4DS SHOES. They make them.
anybody have experience outside-of-Stock shoes? (I know stock would need adjusting every hour)
Chassis:
How do you get Caster on a link-pin V-dub?
Thanks for input!
~crazy Mike~