Recipe # 23
James' scary Turbo 2161
| 1. | Owner | James Lindsay |
| 2. | Email Address | [email protected] Vancouver, BC |
| 3. | Vehicle Type | '63 VW Bug |
| 4. | Displacement | 2161cc |
| 5. | Crankcase | 1970 Type 1 1600cc (AE339748) |
| 6. | Crankshaft | 84mm welded Tony Manz, wedgemated & 8 doweled, genuine German gland nut, Bugpack HD washer |
| 7. | Connecting Rods | 5.352" Carrillo w/ Porsche journals |
| 8. | Pistons&Cylinders | Cima 90.5mm, forged, TechLine DFL-1 and CBC-2 coatings |
| 9. | Piston Rings | Total Seal |
| 10 | Camshaft | CB Performance 2241 (.386" lift, 286º duration at the cam, 107º lobe centers) |
| 11 | Cam gears | Magnum straight cut (aluminum on steel) |
| 12 | Cam followers | CB Performance 30mm light weight racing lifters (75.3g each) |
| 13 | Pushrods | Bugpack 3/8" chromoly (w/ Scat anodized aluminum pushrod tubes) |
| 14 | Cylinder Heads | CB Performance Street
Eliminators, ported, semi-hemi cut, CB 0.060" copper
head gaskets, Chevy-style springs, titanium retainers,
TechLine DFL-1 and CBC-2 coatings 42mm × 37.5mm, Manley, stainless steel, TechLine DFL-1 and CBC-2 coatings 10mm chromoly head studs |
| 15 | Rockers | CB Performance 1.4:1 rockers (w/ integral rocker blocks), TechLine DFL-1 coated |
| 16 | Spark Plugs | NGK BCPR7ET (copper electrode, triple cathode) |
| 17 | Exhaust | CB Performance header (POR-20 coated) w/ stainless steel Supertrapp muffler |
| 18 | Compression Ratio | 7.75:1 I try to run 94 octane when I can afford it, but my water injection and custom-tailored EFI/ignition computer maps do allow me to run as low as 87 octane without pinging (albeit, with a noticeable loss in horsepower). |
| 19 | Fuel System | Wolf 3D fully
programmable EMS (w/ VW fuel accumulator,
computer-controlled Mallory high pressure fuel pump, and
Malpassi Seregno fuel pressure regulator) CB Performance blow through turbo intake w/ Eagle Talon surge relief valve, CB Performance manifolds (with injector bosses) THROTTLEBODIES: CB Performance 48mm FUEL INJECTORS: MSD (38 lb/hr) TURBO & WASTEGATE: Schwitzer S2A-101, CB Performance billet wastegate |
| 20 | Fuel Pump | Mallory high pressure fuel pump |
| 21 | Oil Pump | Gene Berg 30mm
(blueprinted), Berg pressure relief cover Royal Purple 15W40 synthetic w/ Purolator Pure ONE oil filter |
| 22 | Oil Sump | Berg 1.5 qt sump |
| 23 | Oil Cooler | remote 96-pass Mesa
cooler w/ computer-controlled 10" fan CB Performance oil breather, Tech Line coatings, AN fittings w/ stainless steel braided hose professionally chromed engine tin, miscellaneous billet aluminum and paint detail fully balanced (including welded & balanced cooling fan), full-flow oil system |
| 24 | Ignition | custom Electromotive crank-fire system, Mazda 2nd Gen. RX-7 DIS coilpacks & ignitors, Magnecor KV85 Competition 8.5mm spark plug wires |
| 25 | Distributor | none !!! - crank fired |
| 26 | Flywheel | German 200mm, 12.8 lbs, wedgemated & 8 doweled |
| 27 | Pulley | Berg Equalizer pulley (modified to work with Electromotive crank trigger) and pulley bolt |
| 28 | Clutch | Centerforce disc |
| 29 | Pressure Plate | Kennedy 2300 lb |
| 30 | Transmission | 1971 IRS, converted to
Swingaxle (AH3237484) BUILDER: Terry Hoogstins, Maple Ridge, BC RING & PINION: 3.88:1 GEAR RATIOS: 3.80 1st, 2.06 2nd, 1.32 3rd, 0.89 4th FLUID: RedLine MTL (synthetic) SPECIAL MODIFICATIONS: gusseted case, Weddle Super Diff, Weddle HD side cover (and matching axle flange), welded 3rd & 4th, steel shift forks, hardened keys, welded cross-shaft, Berg Poor-Man's Pozi, Berg tranny mounts, Berg auxiliary nosecone mount, SAW axles, chrome plated axle tubes |
| 31 | Wheels | Weld ProStars (15"x6" on front, 15"x8" on back) |
| 32 | Tires | BF Goodrich 195/50ZR15 on fronts, 245/50/ZR15 on rears |
| 33 | Max. Horsepower | |
| 34 | Max. Torque | |
| 35 | 0-60mph Time | |
| 36 | 1/4 mile Time | |
| 37 | Engine Mileage | Currently? Less than 10,000 km. |
| 38 | Cost To Build | The whole car cost something like $30,000 Cdn to build, but that's taking into account **everything** I used to build her, including cans of paint stripper, sand paper, and other frivolous things that really do add up over the course of a three-year project. |
| 39 | Purpose | Does picking up honeys count? Otherwise, she is still my daily driver 360+ days a year (ie: minus those few days when there's more than an inch or so of snow on the streets). |
| 40 | Comments | I could sum up this car
using one word: scary. scary being that it was one of the
first turbocharged, fuel injected ACVWs out there and
with me living way up here in Canada, help from those
with actual hands-on experience was very far away. The CB
Performance EFI kit proved to be nothing more than a toy,
really, and the jump into *real* aftermarket programmable
EFI computers was another big jump (with less than a half dozen other Wolf 3D users in town to share notes with -- none of whom owned an EFI ACVW). Then there was the scary amount of noise Sharkey made when I first broke in the engine (scary because Pat at CB Performance said that they no longer sell their turbo kits with mufflers because they don't think that they need them -- apparently 105 dB is perfectly OK in central California). Then there's the scary amount of horsepower and torque -- and the computer maps aren't even fine-tuned yet! |
