1966 bug with AMR500 Blower !!!!!!!!

[Widdow]

So last year i was looking at my 1966 Beetle. I got bord of it was driving my other VW's and not showing any love to my first VW i found lol. So i have a good wife that wont let me see my cars' so i told her i was going to overhauled and spend money she looked at me and said NO you'r not selling it. So what did i do i spent some money. What did i do you ask let start i wanted to put 17'' on it i said well lest go all the way. I put airride kit that me and my buddy build. So we where going to build a turbo motor for it and i had my heart set on turbo. well a few months went by and some how my buddy got his hands on a AMR500 blower and talked me into it. I was not 100% sold on a blower but i hit the drawing board and came up with how i want the motor to look so we started messing with parts and BOOM i have the Beat looking AMR500 motor ever built.
The Motor:
1915 ported with bug heads and H rods.
One off built cam just for this motor
custom intake we build along with the heat plate under the carb.
the generator stand had 1/2'' taken off to make it shorter.
i was going for a Old School look with the motor. i feel we did a good job

Big thanks to my buddy Adam over at seward speed shop for the long night we put in building this car..

Link to the car running:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJsdN9_ctVux9eh3kdXSxXA?view_as=subscriber

[easy e]

Looks pretty awesome.
How's it run?

Note axle boot seam locations (at the 12:00 position on the axle).

To keep the axle boots from failing prematurely... rotate so the seam is at the rear.

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[63Ragtop NZ]

very cool, air shocks on the front?
I like the engine colours, very unique.
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[Buggeee]

WOW. The sound of that motor got my heart racing!
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[Widdow]

Just a few more pics we took today

[FullFender]

Do you have any problems running such a small filter?

[DerrickfromNC1]

[Widdow]

Air and no i have no problem at all this motor runs so good

[FullFender]

[Widdow]

took my 66 to get are tree this year well there was no salt on the road. Have a happy holidays to all !!..

[Bashr52]

Any idea how much boost you are getting?

[Widdow]

at 4500 RPMs i build 6 PSI

[v8nate]

Great job just read thru your build. I noticed one of your engine build photos show a vacuum advanced distributor are you still running that? If so and it's a svda style dizzy you can get a vacuum advanced canister off of a Saab turbo (9-3 or 900) which has boost retard which might help if you plan on keeping a dizzy

[Widdow]

it is locked out and i use the CB black box for tuning

[Skim]

Bad ass
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[Str8bugN]

Been drooling over this on YouTube for weeks. What carb are you running?