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Monster Garage 1951 Volkswagen Beetle

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This is crazy. Monster Garage takes a 1951 Volkswagen Beetle Ragtop and dumps in a crazy engine into it, lowers it and preps it for drag racing. The engine is a 2276cc block with 82mm wedgemated DPR crank, 94mm Cima pistons/cylinders, 5.5-inch CB rods, 8.5:1 compression ratio, Engle FK-87 camshaft, Street Eliminators 44×38 heads (ported and polished by Shawn Moore), 1.4:1 Scat rocker arms, 1-3/4-inch header by Shawn Moore, Kennedy 1700 lbs. pressure plate, and a Black Magic clutch disk. Pretty soon a 850cfm Demon carburettor and a Garrett GT35R turbo will be added on to this extreme package. Want to see how it goes? Video after the jump.


More details on this crazy beetle here.

12 Comments »

  1. E-Nabill said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 3:14 am

    a new meaning to the word NUTS !

  2. aesthari said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 8:48 am

    Woa, it started off as if it was weightless! The front wheels were lifted in the 1st, 2nd and even maybe 3rd gear.

  3. motorhead said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 9:24 am

    my god.. have pick up like superbikes.. wheely like one oso… they should use the VW for fast & furious 3..

  4. HMMaster said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 9:53 am

    its floating! o_o

  5. paradoxx said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 10:03 am

    do y’all know how valuable a beetle from the 50’s is here? its basically impossible to find one.. but over there they can just “chop” it up…

    the front end of the beetle is actually “weightless” with all the weight centered at the back.. so no worries doing wheelies when you have a real kick ass motor :)

  6. mystvearn said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 12:43 pm

    Place aeroplane dynamics and you can make it fly LOL

  7. aksMs said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

    Woooohoooooo!!! Wahlaueh!! That a damn fast Beetle. Now that’s what we use to call - ‘kereta katak’. Hehehe…. Paul, when was this episode of Monster Garage got aired? Any idea of the repeat airtime?

  8. bolo said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 4:41 pm

    a beetle from hell !

  9. accordmania said,

    April 1, 2006 @ 4:52 pm

    why don’t they just modified our savvy like this so that p1 have a survival chance in coming years

  10. tkuan18 said,

    April 2, 2006 @ 4:27 am

    This is no more Beetle, this is a frog………we might to to replace the Beetle with Frog because it jump……or HOP.

  11. blazerSST said,

    April 2, 2006 @ 10:38 pm

    And they still intend to turbo that thing? It can drag with tomahawk missles in thr future.

  12. nissan130Y said,

    April 3, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

    that is just for showla. u think JPJ can apporve it? anyway, the westerners really got nothing to do. they have all the time to play all these weird things.

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