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Old February 8th 2017, 07:35
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Hi

I've been very busy getting my bug back together, its at the tuners now for a tickle.

I bought a .63 Tial V Band rear housing for my turbo to replace the .82, it was very laggy and wasnt coming until 5000 rpm, I lifted and rotate the turbo. I was lucky a good friend happened to be near ATP in north Cali and picked it up for me.



I acquired a Subaru Gears engine cradle from Todd, very nicely made



I welded in some tie down points to my torsion bar housing



I used 1 3/4 roll cage tube to make new chassis forks and bracing





A forum member VWCool supplied me with some laser cut flat floors



bought some heavy duty tie rods from Lanner at Veedub engineering, they are much stronger than the tie rod ends



I had a new exhaust made and used a 3 inch Varex muffler http://www.xforce.com.au/products/varex-mufflers



I've done a mudguard air intake like Jak and Ricola I think it turned out quiet good, the mudguard is painted now but I don't have a picture of it.





Top view of the motor, the air intake feeds into a BMC Oval Trumpet air filter



My weight saving in the chassis must have worked as the car sits a 25 mm higher on the same spring plate angle

Steve
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