Blueproject 1200 1.9

[Blueproject]

Hello everybody!
I´m Pedro from Portugal.
My Beetle is a 1200 Std from 74. I will try to give all the information i can

Engine:

1915 cc Wbx (Watercooled) with 9:1 CR with lightned/balanced crank(69mm) , rods,pistons and flywheel(230mm)
Cromoly push rods
Twin Dellortos (40mm)
Engle 130
HD Double spring valves(42x38)
Polished and enlarged heads.
Original box 8x35

Exhaust:
Merged 4x1 5/3.8 with homemade final exhaust

Interior:

Porsche 944 seats
VDO´s
Empi shifter
Tacho Auto meter
Sport steering wheel

Wheels:

Original enlarged:

Back :7j with 195/55/15
Front: 5,5j with 185/55/15

Original Discs/Drums ion the back all around with goodridge brake lines

[tham]

hello
welcome here

give us pics please ...

[Blueproject]

I again!
Sorry to stoped to write but i was working.....
Last 3 weeks i´ve been work hard in the car because i go race next Saturday the 11th.
I will post some old pictures till today , hope to find the good ones

[kev1]

welcome!

[Blueproject]

The project started many years a go, 1994 with a big friend. At the time the original color was white but Blue was the choice.
The car was for painting for a year, because my friend lives in France and just come here one time per year, that´s why he stoped the project and asked me to finish the car.so the car was in the garage for almost 12 years already painted and with seats. Its just a short story because i have to thanks to my friend the offer.
Now the day i brought the car home after clean the tank, carburator and change fuel lines.




The seats..old picture sorry:



Interior before start drive home:



On the high way:

[Blueproject]

The first wheels"Mangels" in 7j


And a souvenier from a friend....poison!!!
Twins Dellortos,


First meeting 2006:



A 70´s exhaust:



Starting a new engine 1600cc with twin carbs, Engle 110, Polished ports.





Just for the picture:

[Blueproject]

Almost there...



2nd meeting 2008:

[Blueproject]

Another stage:




First Race:






After a guy hit the car i made some changes:



I lowered it a bit and change wheels......

[kev1]

i love the new wheels!!

[Blueproject]

Another race....




I brought a few VDOs oldschool in bad conditions but everything is home made so i clean them:


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DRAG DRAY at Estoril:

[Blueproject]

A video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtAOiCSzR0c




And something was wrong.......




But took a 3rd place:



And started the new stage(WBX 1915)......

[ElPax]

So pretty this beetle. Congratulation

[kev1]

[Blueproject]

Well so i was already working in the new engine but now it was urgent because no engine to drive around

Just look at this!!!!!



While i was waiting for some pieces , there was another details to work..

The black thing is from the original engine but it´s too big and uggly so i tried this:



The plate:


All in one:



In place:


Here is a T1 polie but i made an adaptor to use it in my engine. It´s lighter and looks much better.



More things arrived:


While i was taking care for other details:

TMI door panels:


I don´t like the original door handle so i made a new ones in leather



It´s time for the very hard work, in this engine there is different typs of pieces because we use pieces from T1 and T4 engine.Isn´t bad because they are much cheaper.
Here i used a T1 manifolds, but it was necessary to make it stronger because the ports are much bigger:



Here the size of the ports before :


During work:



A lot to take off:


Almost.....there:



The weather was terrible so i couldn´t work in the car but some goodies arrived:

[Blueproject]

It´s the day for the MOT so i have to change the tires and take a friend´s engine:




The weather was better and a few weeks after i started again



Always happy to work in the car!!!



Preparing the box because the flywheel is too big(230mm) so i had to "eat" a lot of metal


Making some wholes to let the hit go out...