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Title: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 25, 2012, 17:08:48 pm My father used to take me to the bug-in's at OCIR. Since I was really young I always wanted a black notchback.
I purchased this Notch in 1991 for $1960 in LA at night. On the drive home the lights got dim and when I stopped for gas I had to push start it because the generator was bad. Two days later I was pulled over and it was impounded for fake tags and had not been registered since the mid eighty's. A year later I rear end a ford truck and had to replace the front clip... I started working on the body and it was rusted out. I replaced most of the replaceable panels and had it painted. It looked really nice but lurking beneath was a nightmare. Since high school I knew on the rust issues and how the car had been butchered over the years by previous owners. I've wanted to build a tube chassis for my notch ever since. The car sat for a long time and I recently started working on it again. The goal is a steel body, full bumper, tube chassis notchback that lookslike it did in 1993 but lower with way bigger tires. Eventually it will get a turbo and EFI added and I would like to put a G50 LSD in it. A low 10 second street car is my ultimate goal. for now its going to get: 2387cc 86mm Bugpack Flanged Crank Pauter Rods 94mm Weisco Pistons S/F Heads ported By Deal Lowry Pauter 1.5 Rockers Pauter Rods fk-46 cam 12.5:1 compression 1-3/4 A-1 Italian IDA's The car had been butchered and put back together with horrible craftsmanship so I decided to take it completely apart, rebuild the pan and build a fast type 1 engine with a race trans. I built a 2054 with ported 044 heads, 130 cam, and 48 IDA's. bought a close ratio trans and it was off to the races! Best ET was 7.10 at terminal island but rumors say the track was a little short. It was still fast enough to beat all the tubbed big blocks out there! This was before I raised the engine and trans 1-5/8" to eliminate camber. I was breaking axles left and right and dave foltz hooked me with a bus nose cone and Diamond axles. [imghttp://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278261.jpg]http://[/img] Next came a paint job and interior. I purchased a set of Honda Plelude seats because they were the cool seats to have in the 90's, door panels and headliner from J-Bugs and my father helped me install custom black carpet that was show quality. [imghttp://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/280096.jpg]http://[/img] [imghttp://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/916180.jpg]http://[/img] [imghttp://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278243.jpg][/img] The last picture was 1997, the last time I drove it. I lost my license and it sat for 6 months in my garage in sunset beach. the salt air got to the rings and rusted them into the cylinders. The heads were full of corrosion and I was devastated. The motor was sold to my father for parts and the car sat until about a year ago. Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: speedwell on April 25, 2012, 20:04:31 pm ;)
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/916112.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278247.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278253.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278261.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/280096.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/916180.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278243.jpg) Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: Wünderwolff on April 25, 2012, 20:07:19 pm There I fixed some of it for you.
Quote so the plan started in 1991 when I purchased this Notch for $1960 in LA at night. On the drive home the lights got dim and when I stopped for gas I had to push start it because the generator was bad. Two days later I was pulled over and it was impounded for fake tags and had not been registered since the mid eighty's. (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/916112.jpg) A year later I rear end a ford truck and had to replace the front clip... (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278247.jpg) The car had been butchered and put back together with horrible craftsmanship so I decided to take it completely apart, rebuild the pan and build a fast type 1 engine with a race trans. I built a 2054 with ported 044 heads, 130 cam, and 48 IDA's. bought a close ratio trans and it was off to the races! Best ET was 7.10 at terminal island but rumors say the track was a little short. It was still fast enough to beat all the tubbed big blocks out there! (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278253.jpg) This was before I raised the engine and trans 1-5/8" to eliminate camber. I was breaking axles left and right and dave foltz hooked me with a bus nose cone and Diamond axles. (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278261.jpg) Next came a paint job and interior. I purchased a set of Honda Plelude seats because they were the cool seats to have in the 90's, door panels and headliner from J-Bugs and my father helped me install custom black carpet that was show quality. (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/280096.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/916180.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/278243.jpg) The last picture was 1997, the last time I drove it. I lost my license and it sat for 6 months in my garage in sunset beach. the salt air got to the rings and rusted them into the cylinders. The heads were full of corrosion and I was devastated. The motor was sold to my father for parts and the car sat until about a year ago. Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 26, 2012, 03:22:52 am awesome! I was trying to fix it but had to go to work. Thank You!
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 26, 2012, 03:28:53 am Long story short, I found a lot of rust and I am now building a tube chassis car...
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 26, 2012, 03:32:25 am some pics of the chassis coming together
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 26, 2012, 03:35:51 am I'm going to build a tubular unequal length a-arm front end.
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: leec on April 26, 2012, 21:49:40 pm Hi,
Looks like a great project. Is that a RLR chassis kit? Lee Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on April 28, 2012, 19:12:05 pm I am defiantly enjoying this project and yes it is a ron lummus chassis.
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: leec on April 28, 2012, 21:23:07 pm I am defiantly enjoying this project and yes it is a ron lummus chassis. look forward to the updates. I'd love to do a tube chassis notch. How did you find the lummus kit? Lee Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: earlesurfs on May 31, 2012, 03:25:40 am If you would like to follow my build/ story I have it posted on thesamba. My computer is a POS and I don't have time to update both sites.
Link: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=507880&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: Greg G on June 02, 2012, 05:23:22 am why did you whack off the front end? You could have kept most of it and had a all steel body car.
Title: Re: My Notchback Story Post by: Greg G on June 03, 2012, 01:22:51 am here are a couple pictures of Mike Cruz's notch.
(http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq208/59dragbug/mikesnotch.jpg) (http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq208/59dragbug/mikesnotcha.jpg) |