owned by myself. I wanted a very early RHD samba, preferably a barn door, that was fast, safe, as my daily driver, and this is it!if you are a purist then do not read any further, this bus has had some serious modifications done to it.
Obviously the suspension has been lowered, the rear has been IRS'ed and the front beam has had a height adjuster grafted on to it to get the van low, it has also been narrowed 3" each side!
The bus also features porsche 914 disk brakes on all four wheels with golf gti callipers, to attempt to slow the thing down. The wheels are 2 litre porsche alloys, fully polished, I didn't want wheel adapters so they seemed the best solution.
The gear box is also Porsche, a 911 G50
5 speed, with close ratio 2nd and 3rd, man what a headache that was to
install!
The engine is a type 4 unit, presently a 2.6 with straight cut timing gears, 48 carb's, major work on the heads, lightened, balanced, race cam, magneto etc. full flow oil, upright porsche fan conversion, carbon fan shroud, and so on....
The body has had some work but I have tried to leave
it as it is, rough! Inner and outer sills were replaced, along with both
front wheel arches, generally the bus has survived quit well apart from
the dents and dings everywhere,
also there were a few things missing.
I probably will restore the bus's paint some day but for the moment I am concentrating on speed! speed! speed!
The engine seemed to take for ever to run in, however that's all history now, just to give you an idea of it's performance you can change in to 5th gear at around 100 mph!! Can't wait to running it up the drag strip at Santa Pod later on this year.
