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  1. Cool buggy! I'm in Wellington, ran an air cooled vdub garage back in the UK. If you ever need a hand feel free to give me a shout
  2. Cheers for making me welcome, looking forward to next month! Another occasion where I'm gutted to have had to leave my portable Weber BBQ back in the UK!
  3. Hey guys, can I join in December? Shelly Bay is just round the corner for me. Will you meet at the chocolate fish cafe? Our road legal retros are still in the UK. I'll be on my Ducati. Will you throw foodstuff at me!?! Lol
  4. We live near Luton, about 25 miles north of London. I forget what the dyno said, but I think it was a bit over 200bhp. It was an early stage of tune and development and so only running something like 7-9 psi boost. There was heaps more in it.
  5. Were going to be in Wellington. There's a big project going on at Masterson isn't there? Although from what I've read I get the impression its Moving slower than people hoped? A bit like my projects then I guess! Lol.
  6. Build thread - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39726-el-nino-5256-vw-beetle-drag-car/ Leaving this here - cos that's the way this works, right? Can I post YouTube video on here? Here's a link to a video of an early run when we were doing shakedown tests. It was launching so hard it popped out of gear when the wheels came back down. Still ran something like a low 15! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h3VDh7xgWAk
  7. I registered on here a few years back when we first started the emigration process and haven't got as involved as I would have liked. Other commitments I guess. Anyway, a few years later and we are now 4 weeks away from emigrating to NZ and the one car that is definitely coming in our container is the wifes drag car. Built in 2005/2006 cos she wanted to run a 10. She did, and then Nino sat around, got a bit rusty, was stripped ready for a resto/rebuild ... and then after I learnt the shipping company wanted a rolling car and not a bare chassis and 3 boxes of parts has been hurriedly semi-rebuilt (for shipping purposes only). This was the car circa 2006. After getting the car under cover we blasted the chassis a few months back, and after a coat of chassis black it started to look a little nicer. Labelling and logging everything that came off made getting it back to a rolling chassis super quick. This is how she looks now. It's likely to be slow burning this one. Once we take delivery in NZ I'm going to need to partially strip it again to get the steering and suspension parts cleaned up and coated. And of course the body wants paint. Oh yeah, and its currently without a motor! Its likely she'll end up something like this, in Audi Numbus Grey. Plans? Well it weighs just over 500kg WITH the driver. It is very capably of running 9's, and I'm hoping that we'll manage to find the time and money to chase down that figure over the next few years. Discussion thread is here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39727-keefys-5256-vw-beetle-drag-car-el-nino/
  8. Awesome to find this on here! I've been meaning to spend more time on the forum, but life and stuff gets in the way. My family and I are due to emigrate in 4 weeks to NZ from the UK. With us we are bringing my missus' 52/56 VW Beetle drag car. It was last raced in about '06 but should see the light of day again on a strip in NZ. Anyway, I'm friends with Steve and Adele who you bought your bug from. She's a peach, I absolutely love that car. Some awesome people have been involved over the years including Chris Isaacs and Wayne Allman (google 'mental breakdown vw bus' if you don't know it), and it took a top 20 award when it was first debuted at the VolksWorld show. Then again, its your car now, i'm sure you know all this! Cannot wait to see what you do with the car
  9. Thats a sweet project! Exactly the sort of thing I'd like to get my hands on when we move to NZ - how difficult are they to find? Colour wise, I'd go white! Please dont go down the road of matt black/nato/red oxide ... they're overdone to death! Look forward to seeing this when she's wearing her new colour!
  10. Thanks for the input chaps Ive added the link to this discussion thread as requested. I never realised the Budniks would split opinion so much - I guess the haters will have to trust I know what I'm doing Yeah yeah yeah, I could run detailed fuch's, or some gasburners, or even some steelies on 145's ... but thats not where the inspiration for this car has come from and, imo, wouldn't work half as well. Hopefully as the car comes together (and the stance gets dialled in) I might be able to change some minds. I'm hoping to be back on things next month!
  11. So if I caught this correct, only the thread originator can post on the project threads ... and so discussion is conducted here! I like the way that works I must say! Work should kick off with the bug again in September ...first step is to get to the bottom of making the 944 handbrake setup work!
  12. OK, here goes. This project is 10+years, please don't expect a short thread! lol This was my daily hack at uni (we're talking back in 2000 here) come march 2002 and the body and chassis were split, the chassis looking like this this was fully stripped, powdercoated, and rebuilt by me. I was then convinced it would be a good idea to have a cage, as I was now thinking about a 2007cc engine. The chassis went to a well respected cage builder and a 6 point cage was put in place, tying in the framehorns (though not how I asked : ) anyway, during this period the wheels were ordered from the states, and this is how it was all looking. This was 2003, in fact we were mocking this up while the rest of the country was watching the rugby world cup final ;D time passed afterwards and there were numerous conversations about the state of that shell - once we got into it, it became clear virtually every panel would need replacing. This must have been summer 2003. So we hunted down a 1964 australian shell. When it came to dropping this shell on the chassis ... it didnt fit. From the lack of metal in the old shell it had a load of flex and so dropped over, this one didnt have the flex and wouldnt fit over the recently fitted cage. Hence the perfect heater channels were clearanced and the shell dropped on. After a lot of head scratching I gave the ok to chop the door bars off to make life simple. We knew there was a (comparatively) enormous porsche gearbox to fit, and in an ideal world the rear wheels could do with being an tucked in an inch or so. Oh, by now the front beam had had 4 inches chopped out of it too. 2004 seemed to just pass by, a few things moved along, nothing serious, I got let down by a lot of people and the simplest task seemed to take an age to get done. However the engine went from being a 2007cc, to a 2276cc, to a 2276cc with a switzer turbo, to a fuel injected 2276 with a switzer turbo and finally settling on a 2276, FI with hybrid turbonetics turbo. All mocked up, it looked like this Eventually I made the decision to have Chris Isaacs sort the cage out, get the porsche gearbox fitted, and tuck the rear in about 1 1/2 inches each side. Basically get it all rolling again. I spoke with him at the end of 04, and by april/may 05 the chassis was in his workshop. After many discussion when it arrived we decided to chop the rear end off, have a motorplate made, do away with the framehorns, solid mount the lot, and have him fabricate all the rear suspension. it started like this and u can see here how much of the old cage was cut out and very soon it was like so ... June 2005 and it was all welded up then the interior panel work was done with space for the intricate turbo set-up and when mocked up with the '64 shell, and everything actually fitting, it looked like so at long last, attention could turn to the shell. This was Aug/Sept 2005 (ish). It wasnt in too bad condition, but there were areas that needed attention! Work began on the shell mid October and the guttering got done and the inner quaters all look like this here you can see how the channel was cut away to clear the old door bar the other side was the same, but is now repaired - Early '06 and the interior was mocked up; Vents from a late bug were grafted into the early decklid By the end of 2006 the body was in paint, the chassis powdercoated, and the floorpan given a few coats of POR-15. And thats how it sat until about 12 months ago. It had been stored under a sheet and well looked after. I was blown away with how good it looked truth be told. I had the bug shifted back to my Dads house (my place is rammed!) by the end of the year With work slowly progressing this year, ive spent most of my time stripping and rebuilding the suspension, whilst trying to organise the mountain of parts I had stored about the place! And I found the original key! Its been about 3 months now since I touched the car. The largest problem is that my Dad lives 100 miles away from me so I cant exactly tinker away in the evenings. Still, I found time to try out the Budniks! I'm hoping to keep plugging away, and I want the car rolling asap. I mentioned in the off topic board that we are looking to move to NZ, and Eb (as the car has become known) will certainly be coming with me! as requested, discussion thread is here -> http://bit.ly/njzByg
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