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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:24 pm    Post subject: Any pics of a v8 rat bug Reply with quote

Anyone got pixs or done a v8 rat bug
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This thread is now the fourth link that comes up when you Google it

Sometimes I Google stuff I can't remember and my own old posts come up
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=195430

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:


A Real Rat V8 "Bug" Laughing

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Work in process, but everything important is hooked up

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Build Videos of the Progress:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8xzCtTkH46aTgU1sOSh8VZOV52aD9irG
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A v8 rat bug should be easy to throw together.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That is more like it.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That is more like it.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^ Pfff....Anybody can put a V8 in the front of a Vw..

Or is it.. put a Vw on a Front V8 chassis.. Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
^ Pfff....Anybody can put a V8 in the front of a Vw..

Or is it.. put a Vw on a Front V8 chassis.. Wink

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WELL, V8 IN DA REAR.......ENJOY. Laughing
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& AS MANY IN DA FRONT.......THAT KEWL......
BUT NOT DIFFERENT ENUF..!
VWGURU, 1960 snrf all alum. V8.
i say EUROGASM..! Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahhhhh Thats more like it Tom... didnt mean to leave you out..

It's just.. yours in NOT a V8 Rat Bug. Nothing rat about it.. Wink

You know I l love those Aluminum Buick engines.

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
miniman82 wrote:
vwracerdave wrote:
VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
New VW project in the works for me the next year. Ill be installing a 65 Corvair 4 carb 140 engine , into a Volksrod..

There is absolutely nothing tasteful about putting a Chevy engine in any VW.


Especially if it just whooped you. Wink



A couple of 8 banger inspirations...

Member tom landock jr's (now vwguru) Aluminum Buick V8.... Looks right at home... Wink

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Another found... LT1 V8 .. but....it doenst look as kewl as Toms...

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More found in the Gallery..

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

v8 twin turbo beetle

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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 9:39 am    Post subject: Re: Any pics of a v8 rat bug Reply with quote

Im working on mine right now.
56 Oval Chopped Blown V8 Build Project.
Really I'm just getting started and a long way to go.
I say go for it!
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 9:55 am    Post subject: Re: Any pics of a v8 rat bug Reply with quote

Here's some pics of one I saw at show a few years ago:
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