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slalombuggy
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Thanks guys, unfortunately work on this project haas ground to a hault for a while. I'm about to fire the new motor "Brutus" for the buggy and do a bunch of work on it to get ready for Bonneville this year. 2 months till we go and so much prep to do to the car and everyhting else, AND I'm getting a new garge built so that takes up a huge amount of what little free time i have.
It's resting comfortably under a car cover on my patio at home for now, but it's not forgotten.....
brad
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slalombuggy
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Well, it's been over a month since I've done anything to the 57 except uncover it to let it dry out from all the rain we've had. I got the motor for the buggy finished and installed and took it for a couple of quick trips last weekend to shake it out a bit. But the biggest time consumer has been the new garage. After 10 years of renting various shop space, storing cars in my brothers garage in the winter and wearing out my welcome at work with my projects, I finally have a space to call mine (well, technically it's the banks for a few years) and work on projects at home.
5 weeks till Bonneville and then I hope to get cracking on the 57 again.
brad
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briyenkieth
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now thats a garage!! man what i'd do for such a clean canvas. love the buggy sittin infront of the oval, shows haw deep the space is. looks to be a two car door with space on each side...oh man the endless options, sorry i'm just really jealous. current work space at my house is the gravel driveway.  |
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dirtpittt
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| What issue of Hot VW's will this car be featured in? Heck of a job. |
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MURZI
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slalombuggy
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It's just new, give me some time. And I'm at Bonneville right now so can't start plugging it up with crap till I get home  It's got 2 doors a single and a double. Lots of room to put crap in so that I'm stuck with a 10x10 foot space to work in........
brad
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slalombuggy
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I'm back.....
Started fitting the interior aluminum panels. They are just he cheapy Empi ones but they do the job. Some day I'll have Ric at BigWig make a custom set for me to match the rear wing. I made a cardboard pattern to figure out where to drill the holes for the handles and I had to do quite a bit of trimming on the rear panels to get them to fit, but they are a generic panel so I expected this.
Passengers door with the buggy resting in the background
Drivers rear 1/4.
brad
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drscope
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| MURZI wrote: | | That garage pic has to be photoshopped....no VW nut has an empty garage like that....it is MENTALLY impossible. |
Give it a week or two! By Thanksgiving he'll be planning an expansion and wondering where all the space went.
Nice job Brad!
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BEATNGU
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| sweet ride man.... any upgrades lately..??? |
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slalombuggy
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Updates? Ya, it's -30C, my snowbanks are 5 feet high and I wanna drive my 57  The body will sit for the winter in my garage. I'm trying to finalise things like tail lights, a shifter and a few odds and ends and get ready for a big push in the spring.
I'm working on the street motor for the car at the shop. 2332, 44x38 Wedgeports flycut for 53cc chambers, FK-87, 1.4s, 48IDFs with Jaycee vents.
I'm also going to re-cam my buggy engine this winter 
brad
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| slalombuggy wrote: | Ya, it's -30C, my snowbanks are 5 feet high and I wanna drive my 57
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C'mon, you know you wanna....
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slalombuggy
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In ice racing we were limited to 6 bolts per linear foot of tire, and even that chewed up the track something horrible. Those tires would be crazy!!!!!!!!! But the residential streets are getting so bad I may have to resort to something like that...... 
brad
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BEATNGU
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| talk about snow tires ...!!! sheeesh. lol |
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drscope
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Brad you need to post a newer picture of your garage! I want to see if you have any space left.
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slalombuggy
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| drscope wrote: | | Brad you need to post a newer picture of your garage! I want to see if you have any space left. |
Ya lots of room. I haven't had time to do anything in there and now it's too cold. My only additions have been a couple of work benches my Dad built for me. Still lots of room for tthe wifes car, my truck, the 57 and the buggy, and, I can still walk around all of them. Now I just have to figure out how to fit one more buggy in here.......should have gone bigger
brad
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| Just don't visit garagejournal.com... You'll have yet another project to spend evey penny on. I was on that forum for a year and now have a new roller cabinet, and a mix of german and US tools in it.... Sigh |
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slalombuggy
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To cold to work on the car in the garage, so I've ben working on the engine. Drilled out all the plugs and tapped them, added an extra oil gallery to the cam journals on the 1/2 side, checking and cleaning everything a few times and then started asembly on Thursday. Everything went really well, a slight adjustment on one of the rocker side shims but that's about all.
Friday night
Saturday noon
brad
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bro2539
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:24 am Post subject: Re: Landspeed Racing Project, My 57 |
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| slalombuggy wrote: | Well I ran my buggy in 2010 to 115 mph in the standing mile at Bonneville, next year I'm going back with my buggy and hopefully my latest project, a 57 that was saved from the scrap steel man a couple of weekends ago.
It's going to sit on the 71 pan that was originally under my first car 25 years ago. The chassis mods include changing the bulkhead to fit a kingl/ink 4" narrowed frontend with dropped spindles and disk brakes and raising the rear torsion housing 3 inches and lowring the rear one inside spline using HD springplates and torsion bars. Steel mounts will be used for the tranny as well as a Berg mid-mount. Rear brakes will be disks as well.
A 'glass areodynamic front end will be used (don't cry the front clip is going to be used to fix a 54. the rear will be all steel with the parcel tray being lifted 3 inches. I'm hoping to use as much of the factory metal as possible.
Engine will be a dry sumped, aluminum cased, 2332 with CNC heads and 48 Webers. Gearbox is yet to be determined but either a 3.88 or 3.44 R/P will be used.
brad |
Wow. That looked like it could have been a pretty nice oval. |
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slalombuggy
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bro2539, As I've said before. It's my car I'll do with it what I want. I got an EMPTY shell with windows and part of a wiring harness. EVERYTHING else was missing.
I knnow where another car in the same condition is. YOU can buy it for $400, spend years collecting all the small parts and missing pieces and restore a car for about twice it's value.
Henry Thanks, I kind of like it.
brad
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