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earlesurfs
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« 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.

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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.

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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.
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2012, 20:04:31 pm »

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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2012, 20:07:19 pm »

There I fixed some of it for you.

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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.



A year later I rear end a ford truck and had to replace the front clip...



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.



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.







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.
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2012, 03:22:52 am »

awesome! I was trying to fix it but had to go to work. Thank You!
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #4 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...
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2012, 03:32:25 am »

some pics of the chassis coming together
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2012, 03:35:51 am »

I'm going to build a tubular unequal length a-arm front end.
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leec
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2012, 21:49:40 pm »

Hi,

Looks like a great project. Is that a RLR chassis kit?

Lee
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2012, 19:12:05 pm »

I am defiantly enjoying this project and  yes it is a ron lummus chassis.
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leec
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« Reply #9 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
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earlesurfs
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« Reply #10 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=
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Greg G
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« Reply #11 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.
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Greg G
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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2012, 01:22:51 am »

here are a couple pictures of Mike Cruz's notch.



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