Post by owdlvr on Oct 23, 2018 22:30:27 GMT -8
Well, after heading down to Nanaimo tonight to meet some of the group, I figure I better make an introduction post! If any of you have been to the Great Canadian in the last five years, you've probably met or seen me as I'm a member of the DVKK and have been pretty involved with the show. When I moved out west, I lived in Squamish for 12 years before finally deciding I needed to buy a hous...err, a shop with some living space attached to it. I had a few options for where I might want to move to, and ended up deciding on Port Alberni, having moved there two years go.
Car wise, you may know my 1971 Super Beetle, known as the "Rally Bug". I built it five years ago, over a period of 8 months, and it pretty much seems to be on a constant upgrade schedule. Exterior wise it faithful reproduction of the Salzburg Rally cars that raced in Austria from 1971 through 1973 (with 1973 being curved window supers), but 'under the skin' it's entirely my own design. It features a Porsche 901 5-spd dogleg transmission, just like the factory cars had, but that's where the similarities end. On my car I cut out the rear torsion bars and converted the back end to coil-overs. The brakes are ghia front calipers on all four corners, it's got a Tilton racing pedal box, modern racing seats and belts, a modified Hargett shifter you've never seen in a beetle before, a half cage and various other rally-specific equipment. Currently it runs a 2110cc engine with CB Performance fuel injection. The engine is dry-sump oiling, which means there is no oil in the case. It's all stored in the tank in the back seat, and uses three oil pumps in the stock location to move oil from the tank to the pressure pump, the pressure stage pressurizes the oil and runs it through the system in the traditional full-flow manner, and then the third pump moves oil from the engine case back into the tank. This car gets driven a fair bit, I've put 225,000km on it in the last 4.5 years. The full build thread, should you be bored and work and have quite a bit of time, can be found here on the German Look forums: www.germanlook.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11341
Also in my VW stable is my 1958 Beetle. It's a work in progress as I get time to finish it. Doesn't stop me from driving it though. If you're a fan of the Man in the High Castle on Amazon, it's played background car a number of times and in some driving scenes...but you'd have to know exactly when to hit pause to catch it
I've also got a 1975 Beetle that's been in my family since I was four years old. It obviously needs restoration, having been driven year-round for many years in Ontario. I swear I'll get to it after I finish my German Look project. Yes, that's the plan. Despite the rust, and the fact that dad replaced all four fenders with taiwanese ones when I was four (really dad?! #$@#!!!!), it's in fantastic nick. Every nut and bolt is from the factory, it even has the original VW Canada spare tire complete with nibs. It's never been used.
I'll start a build thread elsewhere on the site for my 1973 German Look project, seen here in will-be-changed-orange. It's my current build, but with the amount I travel for work will not be completed anytime soon unfortunately. House projects, a '67 MGB I'm supposed to be restoring, my Cummins-swapped-Chevy, and trying to spend some time outdoors seems to eat up a fair bit of time!
-Dave
Car wise, you may know my 1971 Super Beetle, known as the "Rally Bug". I built it five years ago, over a period of 8 months, and it pretty much seems to be on a constant upgrade schedule. Exterior wise it faithful reproduction of the Salzburg Rally cars that raced in Austria from 1971 through 1973 (with 1973 being curved window supers), but 'under the skin' it's entirely my own design. It features a Porsche 901 5-spd dogleg transmission, just like the factory cars had, but that's where the similarities end. On my car I cut out the rear torsion bars and converted the back end to coil-overs. The brakes are ghia front calipers on all four corners, it's got a Tilton racing pedal box, modern racing seats and belts, a modified Hargett shifter you've never seen in a beetle before, a half cage and various other rally-specific equipment. Currently it runs a 2110cc engine with CB Performance fuel injection. The engine is dry-sump oiling, which means there is no oil in the case. It's all stored in the tank in the back seat, and uses three oil pumps in the stock location to move oil from the tank to the pressure pump, the pressure stage pressurizes the oil and runs it through the system in the traditional full-flow manner, and then the third pump moves oil from the engine case back into the tank. This car gets driven a fair bit, I've put 225,000km on it in the last 4.5 years. The full build thread, should you be bored and work and have quite a bit of time, can be found here on the German Look forums: www.germanlook.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11341
Also in my VW stable is my 1958 Beetle. It's a work in progress as I get time to finish it. Doesn't stop me from driving it though. If you're a fan of the Man in the High Castle on Amazon, it's played background car a number of times and in some driving scenes...but you'd have to know exactly when to hit pause to catch it
I've also got a 1975 Beetle that's been in my family since I was four years old. It obviously needs restoration, having been driven year-round for many years in Ontario. I swear I'll get to it after I finish my German Look project. Yes, that's the plan. Despite the rust, and the fact that dad replaced all four fenders with taiwanese ones when I was four (really dad?! #$@#!!!!), it's in fantastic nick. Every nut and bolt is from the factory, it even has the original VW Canada spare tire complete with nibs. It's never been used.
I'll start a build thread elsewhere on the site for my 1973 German Look project, seen here in will-be-changed-orange. It's my current build, but with the amount I travel for work will not be completed anytime soon unfortunately. House projects, a '67 MGB I'm supposed to be restoring, my Cummins-swapped-Chevy, and trying to spend some time outdoors seems to eat up a fair bit of time!
-Dave