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Username: twinfactor
Name: Tim Andresen
Email: Click to Show
Location: Elgin, Illinois
URL: www.bradandtim.co...
Posts: 29
Title: Member

Date Registered:
10.28.2002 - 7:15pm

Timeslips

1/4: 17.17 @ 75.61 MPH
       09/21/2007
1/4: 17.358 @ 74.33 MPH
       09/21/2007
1/4: 18.058 @ 72.16 MPH
       09/15/2006

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twinfactor's Super Beetle

Car Info

Car: 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle
Engine: 1776 cc
Tranny: 4 Speed Manual
Color: Red and White

Car Registered: 10.28.2002 - 7:15pm
Car Updated: 09.24.2007 - 2:32pm
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Modifications

Engine

  • -1776cc aircooled VW engine
  • -90.5mm Mahle forged pistons
  • -Scat c45 cam, lifters, and cam gear
  • -Kadron dual carbs, polished intake manifolds
  • -1-5/8" merged race header.
  • Dyno results from 2007 BASH: 86 whp, 115 tq
  • (thats up 12 hp from last year, and 15 tq)

Exterior

  • -15" Riviera Style Rims, Continental 195/65R15 in rear, Firestone 165R15 in front
  • -Blacked out Trim, bumpers and taillights (w/ flat black)
  • -Red Brake Drums
  • -Fog Lamps
  • -Car alarm horn!
  • ***NEW!*** ---My leaky sunroof is now fixed!

Interior

  • All Added or redone since I bought the bug:
  • -Front seats from a 3rd gen J-body
  • -Black Carpet
  • -Custom Oak Dash Paneling
  • -Sun Pro Tachometer (3 1/8") Sun Pro Volt Meter (2 1/16")
  • -Autogauge 5" tachometer w/ shift light.
  • -VDO oil temp and oil pressure gauges.
  • -Entire car rewired
  • -Tore down, reupholstered (spelling??) rear seat and driver and passenger door panels.
  • -2nd gen. Z24 steering wheel with old VW crest.
  • -Footwell lighting.
  • -Sweet horn (old car alarm, makes people jump or laugh)
  • -Cleaned up and repainted the floor boards (ZERO RUST!)
  • -$200 worth of insulation on floorboards and behind rear seat & in doors... (This sucker actually warms up!)
  • -Elemental Designs' eDead on the hood (the front one)
  • -Removed vinyl dash pad and painted it gloss black, removed various holes and relocated many switches.
  • -Some cheap rubber autozone floormats.
  • -40% shorter throw shift kit, and chopped stock shifter to 5" tall... Makes for about a 2" throw from first to second.
  • -Polyeurathane shift bushings.
  • -Skull shift knob and dice door locks. <<
  • -Switch panel to control foglamps, wiper, horn, and windshield washers (column switches are broken except for the turn indicators)
  • -Resprayed trunk from red to black, and built a custom gas tank cover made of MDF (sealed with undercoating and then painted and finally covered with black burlap for durability) and a black ABS plastic wiring cover.

Handling

  • -TopLine Super Low Super Beetle Kit:
  • -Lowered Struts, Cartridges, Bigger Sway Bar, and Flip-It Kit
  • -EMPI performance oil filled rear shocks
  • -Custom Strut tower brace up front.
  • -New Drums, Shoes, and Wheel Cylinders all around
  • -15" Riviera Style Old-School Alloy Rims
  • -195/65R15 Continentals on rear, 165r15 in front.

Audio

  • Alpine CD Player
  • Rockford Fosgate 5 1/4" 2-way speakers in doors.
  • 6x9's on custom speaker shelf in back.

Future

  • -Lower the rear 1 inch
  • -A headliner
  • -2" wider rear fenders
  • -Get her repainted Red (the current paint job is crappy)
  • -Black powder coated Roof rack with oak slats!
  • -Trunk Carpeting

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