JHU's timebandit

I though I could show you what I spend my VW play time on. Its a 1964 1200 sold new in Tønsberg, Norway. I bought the car back in 2001 to have something to play with while I was redoing my split bus. When I stumbled over an old ad on a derelict Porsche website the ball started rolling, the ad was for four Mahle gasburners. At the time I had a crush on them after seeing them on Gilberts Frid at Volksworld Show 2000. The wheels were paid and shipped to Norway. I designed some adapters to fit them (CNC machined steel) and got them on the bug, but only after fitting a lowered beam to it. Alu T bars were made up by a friend of mine. I did some quick welding on it to get it thru the tech inspection and was give the licence plates. I used it about 3 months before the 1200 gave up, in went a 1600 and the car felt much faster. The year after it received a well used 1915 and some 40 webers, BIG improvement! I took it to the races and got as far as the semi-finals before the stock box gave up on me. It did a 9.6 on street tyres on regular asphalt.
I put a 1300S (OG swing axle 3.88) in it and kept on until that box died to... In with another and that one lived on right into the winter. Over the winter I bought a 2176 IDA engine from Sweden. It was built in 86 and contained all the usual suspects Superflow, FK89, JE pistons, Pauter crank, magneto and 13.9 CR!
I learned a lot that winter since it was my first engine build. The CR was taken down to a embarrassing 10.5 which resulted in 4mm + squish!! I was thrilled when it still managed to give 183,5 on the dyno @ 6000. But somehow now matter how we tried we could not get it to run over 6000. Still don’t know what caused it bad combination of parts I guess. I took the car to SPA in 2002 and raced all weekend... It ran so good down there, I didn't loose a single race. Great fun!!

My gearbox didn't live long with this engine in the car so a new box was commissioned from Ricky Graffeo Texas. The ratios are as follows; 3.88 R/P 4.11, 2.46, 1.65, 1.26 and a ZF LSD. The axels are Sway away items. I bought some M&H slicks for it to, but it was to much for the flywheel/crank connection, so a new crank with wedge mating was ordered from Demello. When I got that into the car the engine case gave up. And so did I.

I then decided it needed a complete going over, both the car and the engine.
This is how it looked in the fall of 2004 before I took it apart. Its on JAP wheels and burners in this picture.

The main reason for fixing up the car was that I could not stand having the side trim any more. I felt like a hypocrite driving it. The reason for me calling the thread Timebandit Is partly because it steals time, and because I’m going for a look that many feel is out dated, late seventies/ early eighties. This car will reflect what I would have done to it if I was old enough back then.