Oh yeah I can sympathize. I love Subaru motors (that's why I put one in our Super Beetle race car :)). But we also wanted to try something really different this time around. Let's face it, a Subaru flat 4 or flat 6 would've just made too much sense.
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The wiring doesn't give a shit, but it was still designed for the gauge cluster being just a few feet away from the engine and fusebox. We had to elongate a bunch of wires for the ass-engined configuration.
Most excellent! I'll take you up on your offer when the time comes.
The Subaru EE20 is an elegant solution, but sadly not sold in the US (unless you import one for crazy money). We had to go with a car that you can find on Craigslist. Mk3 Jetta is a good sweet spot of TDI availability, depreciation, and frequency of smog failures.
This has definitely crossed our minds for a theme idea, and will probably happen at some point. Because our first race is at Sonoma, we have something special picked out. We'll post about it on Facebook real soon.
Yep, I bought the DOTS 411. Only later found out that Murilee Martin aka Judge Phil had written the DOTS piece about that exact car.
That Type 4 has been on Jalopnik before, btw: http://jalopnik.com/5517573/1972-v…
(Guess why I bought that 911 drivetrain in the first place...)
Yes, yes. That'll be the next project :)
Thank you. Months of work coming to fruition... I couldn't help myself. :). Oh, sorry, I meant [smileyface]
This is the face of one of our drivers/mechanics who helped build the car thankyouverymuch.
That reminds me, I should finish that LeMons forum post documenting Ferdinand's Subie swap. tl;dr: apply angle grinder and plasma cutter generously, shoe-horn engine into the resulting hole, fill the rest with Home Depot bathroom hardware.
We legitimately bought the '71 Super Beetle for $500 near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. This being California, the opportunity for rust to munch away on sheet metal is smaller than in other areas, but even so the pan had a nice big rust hole in it which I patched with some sheet metal from a Porsche 914 fender.…
Jason, that would be fantastic. For some inspiration, here's our original build thread on the LeMons forums. P.S.: Lifetime achivement unlocked: my pink butt is on Jalopnik.
Yep, I happened to buy the DOTS 411. I didn't know about the DOTS article. I just saw a 411 on Craigslist and went to check it out. The owner actually told me that she had found the car on "some car enthusiast website".
Maybe it's because I just bought one. Well, not just one. *The* one featured on DOTS over 2 years ago (http://jalopnik.com/5517573/1972-volkswagen-411-sedan). So yeah, my vote would be the VW 411/412. Because who, in the late 60s/early 7os, when faced with the problem of buying a German mid-sized 4-door car, would…