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  • Dibaltic
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    Originally posted by bart taylor View Post
    looks like about 2" and 2 notches to me, since he still has shock towers on his beam.
    I agree with you on the 2 splines in the back, but just because he still has shock towers doesnt mean its only narrowed 2". You can actually get beams up to 4" narrowed with shock towers now. I personally had a 4" narrowed beam on my bug with shock towers. Required no cutting to the body of car or anything

    I'd guess that his beam is 3.5" or 4" narrowed from the type of shock towers he has and how close they are to the inner wheel well

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  • vdubLalo
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    Wow! Awesome work!

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  • bart taylor
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    Originally posted by series88 View Post
    Nice! How much did you narrow the front beam? How much did you notch the rear splines? looks awesome
    looks like about 2" and 2 notches to me, since he still has shock towers on his beam.


    damn that looks good, most people would not dedicate that much time to saving a shell that bad that wasn't an split or oval

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  • cruzd2
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    YUP!

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  • Mr Ganja
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    Wow. This thing is on point in every way. Hard work turned out to be more than worth it.

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  • pieterveenstra
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    Up!

    I decided to build a bigger motor for the beetle So I sold the 25 hp (not original to the car) engine to a guy in Belgium, and started to collect parts for the new engine!

    My plan is to build a 1641cc mild street engine with enough power to keep up with the trafic. I ordered a W110 engle camshaft and lots of other bits and pieces from the US of A. I'm still waiting for the pacage, but in meanwhile I collected some stuff and worked on the crankcase and cylinder heads

    Pics:

    I started with this:


    A 1300AR coded engine. Good base to start with

    Spliting the case:


    The crank and flywheel wich i'm gonna re-use


    Cleaning the case verry thorough!


    Last week i got these baby's in the house (Weber 36 IDF)

    A real bargain! (80 euro's)

    Yesterday I sandblasted my cylinderheads. Always nice to work with clean parts


    I will slightly tune the inlet en exhaust ports on the heads to increase airspeed and flow. Free horsepower

    Stay tuned!

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  • nap83
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    great turnaround. i love the gasburners.

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  • sebasmk5gli
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    sofakingAwesome.....envy!

    Originally posted by pieterveenstra View Post
    This is my 1960's beetle on Porsche Gasburners








    Tell me what you think

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  • pieterveenstra
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    Originally posted by P78 View Post
    vette shit

    is it the pic or do you have pos camber?
    Dankje

    Yeah, when you lower the rear of a bug, you get instant camber...

    Beter pic:


    (don't mind the exhaust in this pic)

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  • Ludey849
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    dam bug is serious...
    niceee.

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  • lilcraigford
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    Great looking Bug! Too low for my taste (I'm more into the stance of a Cal-Looker) but awesome nevertheless! Dad's got black '60 Looker.

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  • P78
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    vette shit

    is it the pic or do you have pos camber?

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  • pieterveenstra
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    Thank you guys, for the positive replies! Hopefully i manage to purchase some other wheels after the winter
    Just to swap every once in a while!
    Last edited by pieterveenstra; 10-14-2011, 11:22 AM.

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  • kcdubber
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    Inspiration for me to get some work done on my beetle! Thanks!

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  • Nick Nick
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    so awesome. makes me want an aircooled baddd, huge props on taking on and finishing such a cool project! keep the pics coming

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