Volkswagen Kit Cars

[DeathBySnuSnu]

First start.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

And it will rev....almost like a rotary.

 

[Zammy]

Damn Rex, that sounds strong and sweet. ThumbUp

 

[Gorilla]

Boy I am eagerly awaiting the finish. The work there is top notch.

 

[Jack Klarich]

That is an amazing revving engine, it sounds like a 2 stroke detroit diesel revving up

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

It is a small engine divided by 6.

Double double over

4 valve per

ITB's

It is much like a motorcycle engine....all aluminum light weight small displacement screamer.

It is out of the corner.

Test drive soon?

 

[Zammy]

Looking good Rex and getting closer.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Well I drove it around the parking lot.

It spins, skids, and does donuts.

But

Traction is limited.......I can spin and spin and never get the tires hot. It looks like I am gonna hafta go to real race tires instead of the soft dot tires.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

I never did get happy with the Chinese copy of an msd copy of a Chevy hei distributor. The distributor spins fine but the electronics inside of it can't seem to keep up.

So

Putting a stator wheel and hall effect sensor on it and building my own ignition triggering. Keeping the distributor to.... ummm... distribute, but with no electronics inside of it.

The homemade crank trigger. Now gotta take my computer box apart again and solder more parts to the board.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

But in the meanwhile......Working on the main chunk of body, prepping for paint.Lots of smoothing to all the modified/added into areas.Lotsa filler primer and block sanding.Third cycle of prime and sand going on now.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

O.... and.

I let some air out of the tires and it is starting to hook up more....

tires will squeal now. Zig zaggedy curly cue marks all over the parking lot have about all washed off with the rains.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

So...... computer all the way back apart...... solder some more parts..... and all the way back together.

Now have and igbt and a trigger circuit.

Now some more programming changes to make.

Started going back into the car today.

Some re-wireing/changes yet to make.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

An engine stuck right into your ear.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Main chunk of body is now white.

More colors to go (1966 906 race colors).

 

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Black eyes.

 

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A splash of red on the sides.

Next is a big patch of red on the front.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

A little bit at a time.

 

[Olddog]

A little bit at a time.

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Way cool!

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Next up is some silver and :Angel:clear coat. It is nearly all sanded and ready.But I hafta work this weekend... dunna when I will get to it.

 

[Papa Zook]

I wanna be you when I grow up...

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Jeez..... I am old and slow now.

I have done some stuff in my day.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

More paint

 

[TomyJ]

Numbers

Beautiful!!! Are you going to put numbers on it? Maybe your daughters birth year?epper:

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Yes it gets numbers ..... and yes it does connect with daughter.She came up with an amalgamation of my old race number and her favorite numbers ......So when she was racing dirt track the number was 73.That silver is lighter in person that the pics make it look.And a mock up of printed pics from internet

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

Body going on chassis.

 

[Zammy]

Wow Rex, that is looking really nice.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

It is this tall.

 

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Front spats

 

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Interior

 

[Gorilla]

WOW that is going to be a blast to drive. VERY NICE