Thread: Baja bug, very long term project

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heres a small video of us weeding the back paddock, taken on a phone so it's a tad out of focus

longer arms is the usual way,,
should be heaps of inch and a half, and 3inch oversize arms about.
to just get the front to flex better you can remove a couple of blades, this may require better shocks though.

We still use whats known as a "beam" front end,, 4" over-length, chrome molley arms

and a few coilovers

What he said

vw are a great choice for kids driving fun, pretty forgiving in the handling department and can be driven within an inch of their lives for years
I don't know if you have had much to do with them Matt, but a 'tuned' stocker beetle will surprise you with it's offroad prowess I realise you don't necessarily want to spend a lot of coin, but a 1.8 litre barrel and piston set, some webers or delortos and you are OFF

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

What he said

vw are a great choice for kids driving fun, pretty forgiving in the handling department and can be driven within an inch of their lives for years
I don't know if you have had much to do with them Matt, but a 'tuned' stocker beetle will surprise you with it's offroad prowess I realise you don't necessarily want to spend a lot of coin, but a 1.8 litre barrel and piston set, some webers or delortos and you are OFF

JC

Rather than messing around tuning Del orto's or Webers,I would just fit twin Kadrons,made for the job and easy to tune on a bug.

Matt,

I'd forgotten about the Kadron stuff, as Wayne says been around for years and very simple/ useable.
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These guys have everything you need, pretty cheap too!!!

That 1641cc kit is excellent value, so are the Kadron carb kits, and the electronic dizzys...

JC

Yep ,I used to have twin Kadrons on my Stan Pobjoy engined beetle show car.

Baja Bugs were very popular in the 70's.In fact they had them on the cover of the 2nd edition of OFF ROAD Australia magazine in the early 70's.This was the first 4wd magazine in Australia,and they had bugs on the cover

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Yep ,I used to have twin Kadrons on my Stan Pobjoy engined beetle show car.

Baja Bugs were very popular in the 70's.In fact they had them on the cover of the 2nd edition of OFF ROAD Australia magazine in the early 70's.This was the first 4wd magazine in Australia,and they had bugs on the cover

Hmmm, got any pics ?
We saw Boris Orazem in his Bug during the Australian Safari, that thing fairly hauled

JC

thanks guys, I'd like to keep the original 1200cc engine if possible, considering the car has managed 47 years with matching numbers it'd be a bit of a shame to change. The info you've produced so far is excellent, what can be done with the 1.2l?