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I hate Volkswagen I like when the world is quiet though!
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When I was looking for the ads I posted above I also found this one, there's a few scenes from Top Gear in there.
My project truck got it's chassis recycled from another build.
My first one was a long bed '85 22re unit with the SR5 trim package.
I drove it until the rear frame rotted out then came across a super clean '87 2wd with a blown up engine that I was going to section the frame onto my first truck and use the short bed in the process.
When push came to shove and I was ready to start the cut, I looked at the entire chassis and realized that with just a little cutting and fabrication, I could use the entire chassis instead of just a splice.
Here it is after the front suspension was finished and the engine got installed.
https://www.autismforums.com/media/1985-toyota-22re-hybrid-build.12573/
The engine was out of a carbureted '80 Celica that I rebuilt, ported, cammed then added the '85 fuel injection to it.
The advantage to using the earlier head and block assembly gave me a cross-flow hemi cylinder head that flowed better than the 84 1/2 and up flat top piston engines with the added advantage of the injection.
Because the SR5 trucks were really laid out, I ended up stripping the entire wiring harness out of it to retain the gauge pack that the standard trucks didn't have.
In all, I had the entire truck apart to replace all seals and bearings and went with new springs and shocks.
When the bed on it rotted out, the cab got nasty and it had 100,000 more miles put on it, I dismantled it in order to keep the good parts.
I had collected enough stuff to give the still spotless chassis another run at it.
The cab was bought for a song and I bought two diesel Chevy Luv 4wds that were technically Isuzu P'ups for their powertrains.
I think I gave the owner $250 for the pair of them because he was doing time, lost the lease on his property and needed the cash.
My first one was a long bed '85 22re unit with the SR5 trim package.
I drove it until the rear frame rotted out then came across a super clean '87 2wd with a blown up engine that I was going to section the frame onto my first truck and use the short bed in the process.
When push came to shove and I was ready to start the cut, I looked at the entire chassis and realized that with just a little cutting and fabrication, I could use the entire chassis instead of just a splice.
Here it is after the front suspension was finished and the engine got installed.
https://www.autismforums.com/media/1985-toyota-22re-hybrid-build.12573/
The engine was out of a carbureted '80 Celica that I rebuilt, ported, cammed then added the '85 fuel injection to it.
The advantage to using the earlier head and block assembly gave me a cross-flow hemi cylinder head that flowed better than the 84 1/2 and up flat top piston engines with the added advantage of the injection.
Because the SR5 trucks were really laid out, I ended up stripping the entire wiring harness out of it to retain the gauge pack that the standard trucks didn't have.
In all, I had the entire truck apart to replace all seals and bearings and went with new springs and shocks.
When the bed on it rotted out, the cab got nasty and it had 100,000 more miles put on it, I dismantled it in order to keep the good parts.
I had collected enough stuff to give the still spotless chassis another run at it.
The cab was bought for a song and I bought two diesel Chevy Luv 4wds that were technically Isuzu P'ups for their powertrains.
I think I gave the owner $250 for the pair of them because he was doing time, lost the lease on his property and needed the cash.
It always amazes me what lengths people will go to in order to restore something.
A derelict wreck found in Wales in the early eighties. A cut down chassis with no engine, no back axle and a motherload of missing parts. To almost everyone a hopeless case.
A derelict wreck found in Wales in the early eighties. A cut down chassis with no engine, no back axle and a motherload of missing parts. To almost everyone a hopeless case.
No engine or back axle could be found in the UK. The search went further afield. An engine from New Zealand. A back axle from Australia. Years of work making what couldn't be found turned these sad remains into this.
Yep, I fully understand, the same fascination that drives me to be an essential cog in the Steam Gas and Horse Association.
Here is a picture of a Citation Zink chassis formula V racecar that is like the one I helped build when I was 19
They were an entry level Sports Car Club of America racecar with a focus on using the 1200cc V-Dub drivetrains that were very plentiful at the time.
I posted earlier about owning several hundred Beetles and air cooled variants which is in no way stretching the truth.
When I was younger, you could generally buy them for $25.
They never had service brakes or a battery that worked, but if you brought a battery you could still drive them home with the hand brake lever that was between the front seats.
The place I was involved with the Zink chassis was a performance engine building shop where I learned a whole lot of stuff that I applied to my own motorsports endeavors then and later.
One of the guys I worked for was a Bondurant driving school instructor who started to groom me for roadracing.
At the time, I was bombing around in this '69 Chevrolet Camaro Indy Pacecar replica:
https://www.autismforums.com/media/my-1969-chevy-camaro.5130/This image was captured in the parking lot of my Father's business the day I brought it home.
Bruce not only taught me track protocol, he also taught me how to trail brake the Camaro like Mark Donohue perfected on the track in his Camaros to lessen the chance that I killed myself in it.
It saved my butt more than once
Oh yeah, and it had a Spartan Race Engineering build we based on a 350 cu.in. 370 horse engine we massaged in the shop coupled to the Muncie M22 4 gear with a Borg & Beck six roller competition pressure plate and a 4.10 geared 12 bolt posi third member.
I ran the sticky Mickeys on the rear to tie it down.
It was nasty quick on the street
I was a skinny little kid back then and the pedal pressure on the clutch was so heavy I often pulled it out of gear at a red light because it would make my leg shake if I held it in too long
Visible to the right are two VW Beetles I owned at the time.
My younger brother bought it off me 30 years ago and just finished restoring it to near new condition.
Working on it on and off, married twice then raising two kids, it took him all 30 years to get it done.
They were an entry level Sports Car Club of America racecar with a focus on using the 1200cc V-Dub drivetrains that were very plentiful at the time.
I posted earlier about owning several hundred Beetles and air cooled variants which is in no way stretching the truth.
When I was younger, you could generally buy them for $25.
They never had service brakes or a battery that worked, but if you brought a battery you could still drive them home with the hand brake lever that was between the front seats.
The place I was involved with the Zink chassis was a performance engine building shop where I learned a whole lot of stuff that I applied to my own motorsports endeavors then and later.
One of the guys I worked for was a Bondurant driving school instructor who started to groom me for roadracing.
At the time, I was bombing around in this '69 Chevrolet Camaro Indy Pacecar replica:
https://www.autismforums.com/media/my-1969-chevy-camaro.5130/This image was captured in the parking lot of my Father's business the day I brought it home.
Bruce not only taught me track protocol, he also taught me how to trail brake the Camaro like Mark Donohue perfected on the track in his Camaros to lessen the chance that I killed myself in it.
It saved my butt more than once
Oh yeah, and it had a Spartan Race Engineering build we based on a 350 cu.in. 370 horse engine we massaged in the shop coupled to the Muncie M22 4 gear with a Borg & Beck six roller competition pressure plate and a 4.10 geared 12 bolt posi third member.
I ran the sticky Mickeys on the rear to tie it down.
It was nasty quick on the street
I was a skinny little kid back then and the pedal pressure on the clutch was so heavy I often pulled it out of gear at a red light because it would make my leg shake if I held it in too long
Visible to the right are two VW Beetles I owned at the time.
My younger brother bought it off me 30 years ago and just finished restoring it to near new condition.
Working on it on and off, married twice then raising two kids, it took him all 30 years to get it done.
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