1.8t Mid-Engine 1960 UBRDUB

[volkdent]

Just got a text that we are good for this afternoon, so she should be home tonight. Well, honestly, it was body damaged, but not enough that I wouldn't have fixed it. It has a tear in the body panel between the air inlet duct and the edge of the fender on the drivers side where it cut off or was cut off by a semi(large truck/trailer). The wheel lugs tore into the body from there back to the wheel, which was damaged, as well as on of the control links. So, with a new control link, new tire/wheel, and a patch to the quarter panel this would have been just fine, but I couldn't resist $7k and it's exactly what I wanted as far as interior and tranny so it's getting chopped!

Jason

[Humble]

Good find, can't wait to see some pics. did you find it on copart.com?

[volkdent]

Got it off a guy selling Porsche engines on Craigslist. Some cool Ukranians to boot! Good guys. Anyhow, I'm going to keep the UBRDUB together and build this one from scratch so I started a new thread for it here:

Oval Ragster

Jason

[ricola]

Glad to hear UBRDUB isn't being sacrificed..

[volkdent]

Won't be any posts here for awhile, I'm going to get the Ragster into a driver before I get back to the UBRDUB.

Jason

[volkdent]

A little update: So last Memorial Day weekend I broke the 02J tranny I had in this car. It's been pretty much just sitting there ever since, but about a month ago I decided to get back on this again. I had purchased a 02M 6 speed tranny a couple of years ago in preperation for the 02J breaking, so I took it and the motor down to Griffin Motorwerke to have 1st and 2nd gear shift forks upgraded and a Wavetrac LSD installed. While I'm at it I'm having Integrated Engineering con rods put in. It was supposed to just be the rods, but it turned out I had a small run engine in which odd pistons and rods were used, so I'm getting JE forged pistons as well. For the clutch we are going with a SPEC clutch and lightweight steel flywheel.





In preparation for the new tranny, I've had to redu the master/slave setup, and it was not cut and paste. (no surprise here) The new master is plastic and the slave is a circular part that actually surrounds the output shaft. I didn't know what the volumes of either were, so I'm re-creating the stock setup specifically having to utilize the quick connects that come stock. It will be nice when its done, but it's a PIA now. So on the master end, it's required a sleeve to allow the Wilwood pedal engage the new clutch master. My friend Micheal has been amazingly helpful with the odd machine jobs I've had to do and this was no exception. The old VW master had a large enough diameter rod that I was able to just cut threads right into it and utilize it by itself in the pedal assembly. The new plastic master has a smaller diameter shaft, so I needed to build an adapter to retain the use of the pedals.

[volkdent]

Oh, thought you might like to see how I get the engine/tranny in and out of this thing!







Jason

[volkdent]

Should be picking it up tomorrow. Maybe get it in this weekend and get numbers measured for custom axles.

Jason

[70Turbobug]

I agree! Fantastic build with a huge amount of potential! And it looks awesome too!

[volkdent]

Coming back together. Ordered custom axles from Frank at Driveshaft Shop. Got the new hydraulic clutch line rebuilt and ready.



New clutch master installed in the old space, not cut and past unfortunately...





Ordered Corrado 5x100 hubs and have already recieved 5x100 -> 5x130 adaptors. I'll put my energy into The Ragster until the axles arrive.

Jason

[volkdent]

Santa is making an early round:

Garrett GTX2863R with Tial .64 housing, 38mm wastegate, ATP V-band manifold.





New Corrado hubs from Techtonics Tuning for The Driveshaft Shop axles, 5x100 to 5x130 adapters from 42Draft Designs.





Jason

[70Turbobug]

Nice bits!!

[Phat73VW]

Is this car still getting any love?

[volkdent]

It's getting love in my mind, but not really. It has been on the back burner till I can get the Boxster/bug off of the lift. The lift is smack dab in the middle of my wife's handicap vehicle business, so I'm really being an ahole being on the lift as long as I have already. Soon as they are both back in my little corner of the shop I may work on it again, but really I just can't wait to get the Bugster started up, so that might still be a priority!

Jason

[volkdent]

Finally did a little work on the UBRDUB. One of the steps involved in putting the new tranny in was to replace the recycled steering rack with a dedicated part.







Jason