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Offline Seanaldinho

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1972 VW
« on: June 01, 2012, 05:25:41 PM »
My first car,

 A 1972 red super beetle. Putting in a brand new motor and tranny over the next few weekends. My dad built it himself and Im not 100% sure of the specs but itll put out around 85-90 horses  :devil  :joystick:. Ive already put 6 speakers in and a new stereo as well.

Will post pictures once completed.  :)

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2012, 05:32:24 PM »
 That's alot of Hp for that motor,although I've seen some pushing 150 but they cheated and used a turbo.


     I think it had 45 hp and the real high output motors pushed 64hp!



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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2012, 05:49:19 PM »
That's alot of Hp for that motor,although I've seen some pushing 150 but they cheated and used a turbo.


     I think it had 45 hp and the real high output motors pushed 64hp!



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Yeah it is but my dad drives fast so he made sure that when he drives it he can still drive the same speed.  :lol
(It also means drifting, being that its rear wheel drive and all.)  :devil

Its a 1776 with a few power adders that hopefully still get me around 25-28 mpg.

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2012, 06:05:45 PM »
Yeah it is but my dad drives fast so he made sure that when he drives it he can still drive the same speed.  :lol
(It also means drifting, being that its rear wheel drive and all.)  :devil

Its a 1776 with a few power adders that hopefully still get me around 25-28 mpg.


  You wont like drifting much in a bug!  maybe in a snow covered parking lot but with the engine in the back you have to be careful!  I grew up with bugs,had several nice field cars that were bugs,wasn't old enough to drive on the street so we drove in the fields!

  Show us some pix when you can!

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2012, 06:12:57 PM »
Drifting in a Bug. :x I see an accident in the future, be sure.

Hope a roll bar was put in.

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2012, 06:31:26 PM »
Drifting in a Bug. :x I see an accident in the future, be sure.

Hope a roll bar was put in.

 Hahaha ya they roll alright just like a turtle!  Easy enough to upright though,just need a little help from a friend! :devil



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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2012, 06:39:03 PM »
I had a 66 beetle as my first car and a 73 super beetle later on. The super beetle came with the 1600cc engine.  A honda goldwing has an 1800cc engine...

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2012, 07:13:36 PM »
Here is my Super. This one only had a 1600 in it. The one I had before it I blew the engine so I got a 1776 with a sweet little cam in it. It had bullet mufflers that tucked back under the bumper. I use to turn the idle down until you could almost count the cylinders firering. Sounded like a Harley  :devil

Anyway, this one wasn't as much fun (drifting works well in them as long as the road is pretty strait. If its chewed up you can roll them pretty easy). It was heavier with less power. It did look great as well as have one kickin' stereo. 9 speakers run off of 2 200 watt amps and a small 65 watt amp out of a 60 watt CD player. It had an airhorn that played 36 different tunes, a sun roof, custom taillights, custom paint, and a hand painted "drunkin' clam" (I live in New England and we drink a lot when eating our steamers  :devil ) and the best part is I did it all myself. More than half the fun of owning cars like this is building them and making them your own.

Good luck, and have fun !






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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2012, 07:23:47 PM »
I plan on only drifting either 1. In an empty parking lot on Sunday Mornings. 2. With a girl at an empty parking lot at the beach.  :devil

The red is a very deep red with some gold fleck and its got after market rims, putting a surf rack on it once its done. Need a shifter ball thing... hmm I will probably pick one up at Bug Jam in November. As well as anything else that suits my fancy and absolutely needs to be on the car.  ;)

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2012, 07:28:50 PM »
Two words that freak me out from the mouth of a new driver :
- 6 speaker stereo
- drifting
 
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On the 5 cars I have none have stereo, the engine is the music  :angel: ... Anyway Jeff Gordon, enjoy the car but remember ' respect the car and the car will respect you'. Send in the pics!


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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2012, 09:32:24 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4t8YO0dqw

Seems pretty controllable...
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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2012, 03:26:43 AM »

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2012, 04:26:17 AM »

  You wont like drifting much in a bug!  maybe in a snow covered parking lot but with the engine in the back you have to be careful!  

Back engined cars will not drift even on snow. When you try to make it slide, pressing gas will only cause understeer because throttling up will make the nose even lighter. Maybe with summer tires it may slide who knows - but it will slide about as well as a hammer on ice - the back heaviness will make it pretty much impossible to control.
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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2012, 07:12:46 AM »
You must use the e-brake to get the back to kick out.  Once it starts sliding though, since it's so back heavy, the car will just want to swap ends.

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Re: 1972 VW
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2012, 09:15:02 AM »
Im not shooting to win any drifting championships. If my drifting just turns out to be really fun over glorified sliding around Im ok with that.  :cool: