Sold the wheels. would have been to big in the front.

No roof rack planed for this bug, trying to keep it as clean as possible.

 

Installed Fuel Filler




Modified Wiper assembly to use the RX-8 motor. I did wire up the vw motor first but it is just to slow and out dated. The mazda motor is more than twice as fast as it's slow is faster than the vw fast. Also with using the mazda motor it allows me to use the intermittent function.



Just a look at what it looks like with the bonnet on. I am happy with the intake setup as I don't need to modify the bonnet now.




Got the muffler from Summit Racing today. Only cost me $26 to my door. Pep Boys wanted $63 and they would still need to order it!



Muffler installed

 

Movie time!!!

Running with mufflers, Sounds so good in person! I literally just sat in the garage listening to it for like 15 min and yes the garage door was open!



Revving the motor with muffler installed

 

Awesome, I bet that thing's going to be scary fun to drive!

 

Having the oil cooler dragging along behind like that could work really well - from a cooling perspective ....

 

wow nice work cant wait to see this done

 

Yeah OK?! Nice

 

This is potentially really stupid, but can you cunningly put the oil cooler in the behind the rear arch?
If it works you could have one on each side....

 

This is an awesome build. Not sure how I missed it for so long.

 

Just bought a second oil cooler from "Race Roots". After removing the front nose piece is see that there is enough room up front to mount both coolers and have a gap in the middle to get fresh air to the radiator as well.

 

That's gonna be a helluva Beetle when it's complete.

Exceptional work... keep it up!

 

Made mounting brackets for the exhaust so it is held on it own will not by a jack stand.

 

I can't wait to see what kind of fuel mileage I will be able to get out of this motor now that is in the lighter body.

 

sorry - warped sense of humour from being on this forum for too long .

 

Dude - do you live in a cave? Why is it always so dark there? LOL

nice progress

 

No worries I laughed at it

 

Yeah I guess, Well I sort of have a sleeping disorder and do most the work at night. Plus the house I am currently renting is in a gated community and I guess they don't like people doing ANYTHING COOL!!! So I keep the door mostly shut during the day. I didn't hear any complaints till I had the door wide open, the motor in one spot and the trans in another. I hate stupid people that complain for no reason.

 

I love people who think they can tell you what you can do in your own Home.

 

Well they are trying to say that it is in the Home Owners Association rules that you can't do any major overhaul work. They have not come to me directly but my neighbor (the only one here I really talk to and he's cool) who is now the HOA Secretary told me someone brought it up in their Super Secret Meeting.

Even if they tell me I can't work on it they can eat my A** and I'll even give them a spoon.

They really can't say anything now because it RUNS.

 

Homeowner's associations are like unions, though you get harassed instead of 'protected'.


I belonged to one once, when I was going through the legal fight with Toyota over my transmission, and the transmission sat in the trunk of the Corolla. Corolla sat in my assigned parking place. Then someone stole the tags. HOA kept harassing me about having a none-plated car sitting there, and I informed them, repeatedly, that it was part of a lawsuit so I couldn't get rid of it, and it didn't run, so it wasn't going to pass inspection to get new tags, and I would be stupid to put tags on a car that can't move. But there wasn't much they could do about it, since it was in my assigned spot, and I kept it clean.


So then they decided to do some "roadwork" in a 3ft x 3ft section of roadway, right at the end of my parking spot, and issued a notice that it had to be moved for the roadwork, that we had to use the guest lot. So I did, my wife and I pushing it to the guest lot. Less than 3 hours later, there was a bright orange "remove or it will be towed" sticker on the windshield, and some smug looks going around.


The "roadwork" was canceled.



I hate those people.




Glad to see it's running


Really impressed by the speed of completion for you, including the move.

 

Went to "Bug Jam 2010" and picked up both rear side windows with new molding for $10 then also got a pair of new 195/60R15 for the front wheels for $60

Saw some cool bugs there and some not-so cool ones

Here is one that is also using RX-8 seats (no RX-8 motor though), That's really the only thing cool about it.



What were they thinking with the hood, bumper, roof, slanted taillights... ?

 

That looks like it might be phantom blue paint, as well. Have you decided what color you are going with?


Edit: actually I'm not sure there is enough green hue.

 

this is one sweet project!

 

Midnight Blue

 

Looking good! Your going to have so much fun with it!