My new project... (many pics)

**Preen59** · 18-01-2011, 06:21 PM

Mk1s.. They're not as rusty as brittish stuff, but they're close! haha.

**Bug_racer** · 26-01-2011, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Preen59

Mk1s.. They're not as rusty as brittish stuff, but they're close! haha.

This one is SA , does that make it worse ?

Courtney did a little bit of work on it today , although the workshop turned into a sauna and not as much was done as hoped .
The rust is terrible , gonna be a real challenge to patch it up in some spots .
Im gonna need some help in the induction side of things . Since the car is auto the accelerator cable runs off the gearbox so Im kinda limited by carby choice . Im yet to find a decent blo through carby setup using a downdraught carby on original/near original manifold . Im also yet to find a decent big single carby set up that would work in place of the stock carby . If I could find one or the other it would determine if the car would go turbo or NOS path . At the moment all I can think of doing is having an adapter plate made up to run a holley of some sort .

**Jarred** · 26-01-2011, 10:56 PM

When I looked into blow through turbo carb set up, I called Jakes performance in Canberra, bit of an expert on the topic.

he recommended a carb off an XF (or similar) falcon. Dual barrel, think it's a holley. It could be made to fit on a TS passat manifold I reckon, by use of an adapter plate. IIRC it's pretty similar looking to a TS passat unit, just larger. Got one down the garage somewhere if you want me to pull some specs off it..?