1973 V8 Super Beetle Front Engine Conversion - 283 SBC

[V8SuperBeetle]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but here it goes.

Hi from Houston Texas! Here's my V8 front engine conversion I've been working on since October of last year (07). It's a 73 Super on a 94 S10 chassis that has been shortened. The engine I'm putting in is a 283 bored over .030, it has 12.5:1 pop up pistons, forged pistons / rods / crank, mild cam, gm votec heads which will bring the compression down to about 11:1 cr, summit stage I vortec intake, 600 cfm edelbrock carb, and it'll all be back by a th350 w/ a 2500 stall converter.

Here's some pictures of my build.








88 Vette wheels (16" x 8.5") to go on the bug! I'll clean these up and refinish them.




Some body work.








Sold the chassis.




Cutting out the trunk area for the V8




My first vision of the finished bug, photoshoped.