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Tony Z wrote:Looking good G
Did you test fit those seats before you ordered them or just took a chance hoping you will fit in them? That was my biggest fear with my Recaros - not fitting into them
Looks good, Love the colour.
Tony about thes seats, go on a diet.... problem solved LOL.
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Lucky the seats come in sizes and this was medium set. My luck on that and have size chart that they can check on. Went down to Killarney one day to go check the GT racing and by luck most of the guys have Recaro seats in the cars, so i jump into one of the GT Porsche racing cars and found that the medium size fits me right. So ask my friend that he must check if they have a medium set going around by. They had 3 sets that haven't been use and was getting close to there FIA expiring date. So he organized to get them this side with a Porsche car that was on its way to SA.
That Recaro seats you have in your Beetle Tony is sick and they are super nice. The one's that in the RS4, have a super cool setting. when you press the RS mode, the wings of the seat moves in words and hug you in the seat and keeps you in place. Feels funny but a super cool setting that.
Thanks there Wentzel. There is some more plans that i want to put in to the build. Motor is one of them. Still need to change shocks and looking for decent set for it, but you don't get decent stuff in SA, so i need to import. Was looking at the Spax or the GAZ set. Vw Heritage had some nice deals on there GAZ set's in the UK, and i have a friend that works that side, but the problem is, you can't take it on the plain with all this new rules. The other option is to look at rear shocks of motor cycles with the external monotube , but that is just something to think about.
Then i want to change the fenders to wider ones on the front and back. I have a bit of tire scrape on the front if i brake hard. The problem there is that i'm running 16mm spacer that i made, to get the front center wheel cap on because of the long hub assembly, and to give the beetle better turning space with that 7.5j rim in front and to make it wider. But if change the shock to something better with damping adjustments , then that problem will be fix 90%.
The back ones is still fine ans it misses the fender when it go's in, but if i want to change to a wider tire, then i will strike that problem. Other open is to go shorter axle on the rear. we will check later in that problem if we change to better gearbox.
The car is ok so far with the disc brake setup i'm running know, but will change it with bigger one's later. I always believe in bigger brakes. You get some guys that will build insane stuff" i have some friends like that", but they never think of changing brakes.
the part some of the guys are waiting for, the turbo setup. CB performance Hideaway style turbo headers with external waste gate. Will be running a Rajay turbo and the waste gate looks like 38mm. still need to clean all the stuff up and send the piping in for powder coating and the headers need to get heat rapping. i took the old wrapping off.
Jonno, that is a good question and my answer on this, i don't know. This is like a lucky packet, you never know what you will get. We will see at the end of the build and when every thing is up and running and run in. Will take it to my friend shop to get it on the dyno and fine tune and see what the reading will be.
Maybe someone will have a figure here that have build something close to this setup.
The power output can vary depending on engine, boost etc. What I started out with Rajay and 36 Dellorto's on my 1776 was around 85kW but tuning still needed work. The next was 104kW with EFI and a different cam (Engle TCS20) and the latest was 144kW with charge cooler added, Scat C35 cam, a Mitsibushi TD04L Turbo and new EFI system.
A lot is possible depending on your budget and tuning. On another forum a 1600 beetle engine made a bit over 300hp (224kW) but I don't think it will live long and be high maintenance.
Impressive work but allow me some comments. Urethane bushes are crap in my opinion if you really need an immovable bushing try vesconite. I have used poly bushings in various cars and the generated harshness and noise makes them horrible to live with same with solid engine mountings. it makes the car noisy and feels wrong in my opinion. the only reason for mounting them is if you are into drag racing where solid mounts may prevent some breakage of parts.
In my opinion 92mm pistons and sleeves are not suitable for turbo use in fact they are not suitable for normally aspirated use either the cylinder walls are too thin to be strong enough 4000 km is enough to show bad wear in normal use. I would rather go 1915 (94) or 90.5 (1776) in an engine of this nature.
Armand
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IMPI wrote:Impressive work but allow me some comments. Urethane bushes are crap in my opinion if you really need an immovable bushing try vesconite. I have used poly bushings in various cars and the generated harshness and noise makes them horrible to live with same with solid engine mountings. it makes the car noisy and feels wrong in my opinion. the only reason for mounting them is if you are into drag racing where solid mounts may prevent some breakage of parts.
In my opinion 92mm pistons and sleeves are not suitable for turbo use in fact they are not suitable for normally aspirated use either the cylinder walls are too thin to be strong enough 4000 km is enough to show bad wear in normal use. I would rather go 1915 (94) or 90.5 (1776) in an engine of this nature.
Armand
I second that, to add, the matting surface between the head & sleeve is so thin, under boost & with a little too much heat, it will blow thru this mating surface, not ideal, look at getting copper head gaskets, they help, they are pricey.
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