The beast is alive

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Hi guys, haven't been on here for a while -well couple of years actually. Some may have seen the Vert in the members rides. Well after a 10 year slog the car finally runs. I actually lost intrest in it and it sat for a few years after which i got made an offer to sell which i couldn't refuse. The car runs a Haltech injected 2.7 L type4, had the opportunity last weekend to help the new owner do the 1st service / valve adj after which I got to drive it for the fist time, awesome moment and to be honest i would be lying if i said there were no regrets about selling it. The power this thing has is awesome, it just pulls from 1500 rpm. Just as well that the new owner and I are good friends, so I will be getting to use the beast once time permits. I'll try to post some pics very soon, ony have video footage at the moment.

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Finaly managed to post some pics of the finished car, Has now been dyno tuned and its making 180hp at the wheels. Car has now done about 800 mi and everything seems to be going well.

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and some more pics.

[ricola]

looks great! Where did you get eth RHD porsche style dash from? Quite a few people are looking for one of those...

Rich

[judgie]

very nice.wish i could have more than one car,somthing like this would be very high on my list.
cheers rob

[volkdent]

GREAT RIDE! Very nice interior, where is the back seat from?

Jason

[bean_8044]

wow, that interior is awesome

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looks great! Where did you get eth RHD porsche style dash from? Quite a few people are looking for one of those...

Rich
The dash is custom made, I actually used an old LHD dash and cut it up changing it to RHD and modified from there.

[LOAF]

Hey the stearing wheel is on the wrong side..

Tell us more about the interior.. extremely georgous..

I have a vert, 1978 which is on hold, since I am doing the sedan first.. Man this is insperational..

Please more details on the interior
Alex
NNJ

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GREAT RIDE! Very nice interior, where is the back seat from?

Jason
The back seat is also custom made with the centre arm rest, the basic foam part is from a skyline and cut down from there. All I used from the VW frame was just the outer framework. It was a lot of work to make it all fit but worth the effort i think.

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Hey the stearing wheel is on the wrong side..

Tell us more about the interior.. extremely georgous..

I have a vert, 1978 which is on hold, since I am doing the sedan first.. Man this is insperational..

Please more details on the interior
Alex
NNJ
The interior is all custom, front seats are from a mitsubishi Lancer redone in leather, back seat is custom using foam from a skyline, dash is custom (over 50 hours in this alone) console is from a MK2 Golf and gauges ofcourse are Porsche. The door panels are made from scratch with hand made arm rests.
The idea was to create someting modern looking.

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And some more pics, these are about all I have at the moment but i will be getting some more of the underneath, susp, brakes atc.

[htd]

And some more pics, these are about all I have at the moment but i will be getting some more of the underneath, susp, brakes atc.

very nice!!!

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Thanks, Might be time for a new project maybe.

[Rob]

The idea was to create someting modern looking.

You certainly succeeded ! It is gorgeous !
It makes me think that I should get a Bug as a daily driver, with an interior
like that....

Rob.

[zen]

very, very nice indeed. very classy looking. that is what makes up a quality daily driver to me, much less a weekend warrior. well done!!!!! we need some more feature car articles if you are interested in doing a write-up and getting it to me. i am happy to play editor if you don't fancy yourself a writer. just get me all of the specs and background story you would want included.

[SuperRSi]

Who's central air cleaner is that and what type fuel injection ecu, and throttle bodies are those?

the car is worth the wait I would have to say...

Thanks,
Randy

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very, very nice indeed. very classy looking. that is what makes up a quality daily driver to me, much less a weekend warrior. well done!!!!! we need some more feature car articles if you are interested in doing a write-up and getting it to me. i am happy to play editor if you don't fancy yourself a writer. just get me all of the specs and background story you would want included.

No probs, will work on an article in next month or so. Have tons of build photos also. Where should I send all this?

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Who's central air cleaner is that and what type fuel injection ecu, and throttle bodies are those?

the car is worth the wait I would have to say...

Thanks,
Randy

Hi Randy, The injection is a Haltech F9A (fuel only) and I used their idle control unit also, Its a closed loop system with oxy sensor as I wanted to be able to start the engine without touching the gas. The throttle bodies are 50mm with 30lb/hr injectors (mercury xr4i), I actually bought these second hand so I don't know what make they are. The airbox is a one off made from aluminum, you will notice that its one piece which has now been changed. We realised later that this design would not allow it to expand with the growth of the engine.

[nbturbo]

Now that is an awesome motor car-how could you ever part with it after all the work???? Bet the new owner still can't believe how lucky he got.Well done.

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Yeah its hard to believe that I actually lost intrest in it. The new owner is pretty happy with the end result.

[brent]

Hi there, yes looks great really nice. Two questions plz, what aprox? does it cost to fit injection? this inc the throtle bodies, pump and computor and general plumbing etc? Have you any idea on the HP too? regards brent.

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Hi there, yes looks great really nice. Two questions plz, what aprox? does it cost to fit injection? this inc the throtle bodies, pump and computor and general plumbing etc? Have you any idea on the HP too? regards brent.
Hi Brent, HP is dynoed 180 at the wheels. Cost of injection would be about $3000-3500 NZD. Cheers John.

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picture of the modified airbox, It was cut in half so that it can expand with the growth of the engine.

[nbturbo]

That air filter housing is well made-I can see many,many hours of work there.I was going to try and adapt something from a modern car,but I have bought a TIG welder recently, and have plenty of 1.6mm aluminium,so may start something from scratch.

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That air filter housing is well made-I can see many,many hours of work there.I was going to try and adapt something from a modern car,but I have bought a TIG welder recently, and have plenty of 1.6mm aluminium,so may start something from scratch.

Yes the airbox is a work of art, all handmade from aluminum sheet. Inside the box it has a k&n filter from a VW golf. The whole thing was mocked up out of cardboard forst to see how it was going to fit. There's actualy four seperate pipes going to the throttle bodies which are then wrapped in alloy sheet to give a seamless look.