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A110 type thing

Postby 2P5T » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:39 pm

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Postby andyh877 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:12 am

wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,
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Postby David Gentleman » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:55 am

andyh877 wrote:wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,


Are you kidding, have you seen the sort of power and performance you can get out of an old Beetle engine..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/perfor ... maries.htm

Beetles weighed about 800kgs
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Postby andyh877 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:01 am

David Gentleman wrote:
andyh877 wrote:wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,


Are you kidding, have you seen the sort of power and performance you can get out of an old Beetle engine..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/perfor ... maries.htm

Beetles weighed about 800kgs


YAWN........
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Postby si21 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:46 am

andyh877 wrote:
David Gentleman wrote:
andyh877 wrote:wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,


Are you kidding, have you seen the sort of power and performance you can get out of an old Beetle engine..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/perfor ... maries.htm

Beetles weighed about 800kgs


YAWN........


Yawn or not he.s right Mr Law jnr formulated a turbo conversion for the bug and it was running 15 second qrt's from a smaller capacity engine :shock:

Que Mr law jnr :lol:
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Postby David Gentleman » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:42 pm

si21 wrote:
andyh877 wrote:
David Gentleman wrote:
andyh877 wrote:wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,


Are you kidding, have you seen the sort of power and performance you can get out of an old Beetle engine..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/perfor ... maries.htm

Beetles weighed about 800kgs


YAWN........


Yawn or not he.s right Mr Law jnr formulated a turbo conversion for the bug and it was running 15 second qrt's from a smaller capacity engine :shock:

Que Mr law jnr :lol:


Its ok Si, Andy's brain must have been asleep while his fingers were in a rush to comment on something... :lol:
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Postby daartechniek » Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:42 am

hello all,
i saw some traffic comming from overhere. now my account is active and i can reply. thanx 2P5T for spamming the url.

ah.. the everlasting weight question.

the beetle is fabricated from thick german steel. we're using 0.5 / 1mm sheet, so i hope it will not exceed 2 metric tons ;) otherwise we'll be the proud owner of the slowest sportscar ever ( beating the vw karmann ghia )

it was never meant to be fast. it is the first time we attempt someting like this and is all a learning proces. maybe next time we'll spend more time on handling and speed. this is all for looks, advertisement and knowledge.

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Postby daartechniek » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:31 pm

andyh877 wrote:wonder how much it will weigh, probably need a v6 to push all that metal around the street,


the weight question is becoming more clear.
we made an instalation made up from an old person scale. the maximum weight that the scale allowed was 120Kg so we made a lever that reduced the force 3x

weight now is somewhere about 800Kg

engine and interior is not in yet, so add a little
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