TheSamba.com :: View topic

Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:06 am

ok lemmy show ya. this is what im saying.... flipping the trans upside down will not work... the reason people flip the trans upside down is because they dont want to flip the gear... this is because they have a vw engine in the car. when you put the trans backwards the the trans is going to spin the same way as normal only now that is backwards do to the tranny being in the car backwards. that is with a vw engine. now say you have a honda engine that spins the wrong way.... well you put it in your car and you got yourself 4 gears goin backwards.... well you take that trans and you mount it backwards,,, well now you got yourself 4 gears forward you see. is kinda simple i guess?

Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:36 am

at least what Nuts was saying makes sense makes sense to that guy.....

Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:44 am

Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:04 am

So, This thing is looking too fuggin cool. Seriously.

Of course, mine will be WAY cooler, but if I had to trade my car for another, yours would at least be 4th on the list of potential trades... :D

Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:58 pm

Should be runnning by this weekend!!!

Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:57 pm

I thought that was the 'Human Bio-Active Suspension" support....

motorbreath53 wrote: I like the dead pedal on the passanger side.... dimple dies are never a bad thing...

Are you planning on keeping the stock steering column? Or is it on "the list"?

...looking good guy....

Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:12 pm

okay.... Rear engine it will remain.... I am skeptical that I can build a bug trans strong enough to withstand it.... Guess I will have to go back to good old fashion throttle cable lengthening until I can afford the big trans...
Guess I'll have to sell that 767 I have parked out back

Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:46 pm

what are you doing for radiator protection? i have a mental image of a little kid smooshing down the cooling fins while no ones looking... :lol: and also im sure some craps gonna get thrown up there from the tires.

Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:54 pm

well, I feel like I keep preaching about my last car.... (my avatar) but it worked well. As the pics show, The extensions on the rear bumper will be shortened, and Im sure the rear bumper will either be x'd in or.... maybe time for another poll..... :roll: I dunno yet... but It will get a shield

Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:24 am

Both your cars look BAD ASS!!! Picture says a thousand words!! :twisted:

Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:31 am

Thanks alot! after looking at a build like yours, that means alot! :lol:

Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:42 pm

intake clearance finished...... radiator lines next, and then - ignition :twisted:

Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:49 pm

57streetrodbuggy wrote: what are you doing for radiator protection? i have a mental image of a little kid smooshing down the cooling fins while no ones looking... :lol: and also im sure some craps gonna get thrown up there from the tires.

It would be a shame to have some little fin smooshing kid getting backed over while only I am looking..... just kidding :2gunfire:

Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:54 pm

Extra Nutz wrote: 57streetrodbuggy wrote: what are you doing for radiator protection? i have a mental image of a little kid smooshing down the cooling fins while no ones looking... :lol: and also im sure some craps gonna get thrown up there from the tires.

It would be a shame to have some little fin smooshing kid getting backed over while only I am looking..... just kidding :2gunfire:
:lol: :lol: im with you there especially with new radiators being around 150-200 bucks :shock: :lol:

Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:00 pm

I would like the name and address for whom it is that is smuggling aluminum radiators to you at THAT price...

Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:49 pm

summitracing has alum radiators for around that price...

I've put a couple of them in 5.0 mustangs with great results... and plan to do the same with the ecotec in my baja...

what radiator are you runnning?

Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:53 pm

Extra Nutz wrote: I would like the name and address for whom it is that is smuggling aluminum radiators to you at THAT price...

i know a few people...

no but seriously i saw the prices in the summit racing catalog :lol: just read over the catalog a few days ago and i saw a bunch for inbetween 150$ and 200$ for the stock style aluminum systems wheres the racing radiators w/ fans were as much as 800$ :lol:

Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:08 pm

I hate having to go backwards, in order to go forwards... :cry:

Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:19 pm

so I have used mild steel before for radiator lines, and obviously they rusted, (guess the car lasted longer than I expected) So on this build I am looking to use an alternate metal..... Any ideas on how different metals react to coolant? I will ground the lines of course, but aluminum? stainless? galvenized? Any thoughts as to which would be preferable?

Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:41 pm

I've used aluminum for short distances in moving coolant. I've never used a piece of tube longer than 3 inches though.