Aussie 56 oval ( chookshedoval)

[braddick]

Long time looker of thesamba I thought it was time to upload some pis of cars
Here's my latest project
Chook shed oval
Found this car in a chook shed 3 yrs ago not far from home
It had sat there in the shed for over 30 yrs on the dirt on its heater channels
The pan was used as a farm buggy

[braddick]

Was able to find mostly og interior
It came with the door cards the old front seats were used in the farm buggy and the back seats were used I the old farm truck

[braddick]

A big moment in the resto
On the car trailer to my mates workshop to get its awesome motor fitted

[braddick]

Motor in 1776 blow thro turbo

[Keith]

Nice! Post more pics of the outside and inside, please.
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[splitwindowsyndicate]

Looking good! More pics please
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[braddick]

Some pics from the weekends activities
Went over for a VW show in Adelaide in south Australia on Sunday
That's a 3 hr cruise along the main highway between Melbourne and Adelaide from home
Left mid morning Saturday to beat the heat ( top of 35c )
Stopped for coffee along the way and also to check out this impressive silo art

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Some interior pics
Og carpets and headliner

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Photos from another local show I went to with my mate in his 55 Wolfsburg bus

[63Ragtop NZ]

Very cool car mate, where did you hide the turbo?
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[braddick]

Thanks for the positive comments
Turbo tucked up beside the gearbox
Sorry for the poor photos but u get the idea
Also a very complicated fan shroud and gutted oil bath air cleaner and the front mounted oil cooler
All motor / turbo done by a good friend and mate at his VW Worksop

[txoval]

Ok, that turbo setup is kick ass. I read your original post about turbo, and after looking at the engine, I thought maybe it was a typo or meant to be future plans.

How does it run?

[pyrOman]

Total sleeper right there!


I'd love to hear what it sounds like!



Also, how does this set up work?

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[braddick]

Thanks fellows for the kind words
Yes it is total sleeper 95% of people at the VW show don't pick up on it that's until u start it up, of course I'm biased but I think it's one of the best sounding VW motors I've heard at idle and boost
On our way to Adelaide I swapped cars with my mate so he could have a drive ( he's the bloke who built the motor/turbo setup) and differently has a nice note to it when getting overtaken, probably the 2 " hotdog at the end of the exhaust helps with that
Has far as the fan shroud goes the regulator is mounted on left coil on the right the middle pipes well the one coming down and going to the left is going to the turbo and the one shooting of to the right is heaters running to standard heater boxes with some mods of course another little hidden trick 😃

[63Ragtop NZ]

Hidden heater pipes as well! Holy shit man that's cool!
Don't tell me the carb is really a FI throttle body?
Shame you don't have any pics of the motor all built up before being installed in the car, very clever, great to see someone doing something unique and new, I'd love a small turbo engine one day and that has to be the cleanest set up I've ever seen.

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[braddick]

Ok so to build this motor/turbo setup I pulled the old motor/ turbo out of my old oval
Now it was a 1600 with the same turbo setup built by the same guy who built the current setup 18 yrs ago and was still running nicely the day I drove it in to do motor swap about 12 months ago

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A bit more than 4 bolts to pull this motor

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Also it was a privilege to be able to take the oval back to og owner and take him for a drive, very happy to be the second owner to this VW
Also he gave me a pic of him towing caravan on a family holiday

[calvinater]

What is a chook shed?
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[braddick]

Chicken house
Where chickens go to lay there eggs