THE MEXICAN RACER!

[SPEEDWELL66]

HOLA AMIGOS!

we are starting our race car proyect, but we have a lot of questions about doing it right 


first of all this is the shell, a 1963 bug.



this bug was hit in the front so we bought the front clip trying to fix it and restored, but we decided to cut the whole thing again and use a fiber glass front..



and this is the floor pan




the first thing that we want to do is to raise the transmision. so here is our first answer:

how many inches can be raised? 

i saw the mounts from ron lummus and a.j. sims and they only raise 1" is that o.k. or we can raised more than that?  beacuse we are thinking in 3 inches.

thanks for take your time to read this and we apreciate all your help 

jose luis


p.s.  sorry for my english, i'm not that good 

[speedwell]

a new pink panther is on it's way   .....................

rgd
fabs

[Bewitched666]

Jose Luis bienvenido en el forum de vocho europeo

About the raising of the tranny,3 inches can be done but the shifting rod needs to be taken out of the tunnel and fixed on the tunnel,you also have to raise the part where the shifter will come becoz of the raise.

What is you intention with teh car,pure dragracing?

Succes with the car amigo i si tienes preguntas estas en bien manos aqui

Saludos Stanford

[EL PINGO 66]

hi, bewitched,, i¨m jose luis brother ..martin its my name..

ok. the intention in this car its only for drag.. and we wan´t make a turbo car ...
  gracias esperamos contar con la ayuda de los expertos....

saludos mexicali..

[Roman]

It is a lot of work!
Here are some pictures that I have saved on my computer that shows how it is done. I am not sure who has taken the pictures or who the owner is.

Ron Lummus showed some on the Monster garage TV-Series:
It can be found here:
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jbs" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jbs</a>
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jjx" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jjx</a>
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jr7" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x36jr7</a>

Good luck!

//Roman

[SPEEDWELL66]

Jose Luis bienvenido en el forum de vocho europeo

About the raising of the tranny,3 inches can be done but the shifting rod needs to be taken out of the tunnel and fixed on the tunnel,you also have to raise the part where the shifter will come becoz of the raise.

What is you intention with teh car,pure dragracing?

Succes with the car amigo i si tienes preguntas estas en bien manos aqui

Saludos Stanford

muchas gracias por tu respuesta!

well, we want to make this car the best way possible but understanding that we are not millionares   

we are been thinking about buying a set of solid mounts (empi, bugpack ones) and weld some extra material, so the tranny can be raised..

is this idea fine or not?   it will work?


thanks amigos!


jose luis

[SPEEDWELL66]

nice videos roman!

now i can see how some things works 


speedwell

[Zach Gomulka]

Hey Luis!!!

Use a Bus nose cone on the bug trans, and raise the trans up until the shift rod lines up. Should be about 2". Modify (raise) a rear solid mount, make a mid mount, and chop the nose cone mount off the torsoin housing.

[EL PINGO 66]

hey zach..what´s up men...we see your GTV on pits area in bugorama nice ,,
when you comin to mexicali for drink a tekates beer`s  ...

OK...this are the modify solid mounts 3 inch ...

[SPEEDWELL66]

Hey Luis!!!

Use a Bus nose cone on the bug trans, and raise the trans up until the shift rod lines up. Should be about 2". Modify (raise) a rear solid mount, make a mid mount, and chop the nose cone mount off the torsoin housing.

wat's up zack!


nice tips bro, we allready did the mounts thing, like mi brother martin said, the mounts are 3'' raised now.

here are somo photos of today's labor on our turbo proyect 



we cut the e-brake holder


we cut this area to raise the clutch and gas pedal cables



and also we start working on the body


we are going to cut the rear clip





preparing the area to be cut 




amigos, do you think that is o.k. for our proyect to cut 3" per side of the torsion bars housing? i mean the same way that ron lummus cut the one of the split window.


saludos!!!

jose luis

[Zach Gomulka]

Good yob guys!!

[EL PINGO 66]

the trans mounts are ready.. 3 inch raised..

[EL PINGO 66]

the front end...

[FIDDE]

Intresting prodject,any updates?

[EL PINGO 66]

in this moments the proyect are in stand by, because de economy in mexico is too bad.. bud maybe next year we continue w this car... the engine is in the oven... a 2276 cc w 48 idas short rods n big valves etc.....

saludos desde mexicali..baja

[jamiep_jamiep]

Shame this has stalled, looks like a great project! Hope thing improve for you and allow you to continue....

[madfrog]

Shame this has stalled, looks like a great project! Hope thing improve for you and allow you to continue....

+ 1 

Cheers

madfrog

[FIDDE]

Yes hope you can continue son.I am also thinking of raising the gearbox on my racer.

[max2919]

Yes hope you can continue son.I am also thinking of raising the gearbox on my racer.

Hello Fidde, is that the old splitt i had in Uppsala you are working on?

/Max

[EL PINGO 66]

THANKS AMIGOS... N SOON I BACK TO THE TRACK IN MY GREEN CAR W THAT 2276 I,M ABOUT  BUILD.. Put THAT ITEM IN THIS SECTION...


SALUDOS ,,DESDE MEXICALI....

[FIDDE]

Yes hope you can continue son.I am also thinking of raising the gearbox on my racer.

Hello Fidde, is that the old splitt i had in Uppsala you are working on?

/Max

Yes,,, it is the old 50 split i boat from you.But it is also on standby for the moment.Im in to weight saving so i havent got
the heart to cut it down to single skinn.So i started with my 63 ragtop insted.2 projects to work on