Haha! Yeah, it was very cheap fun back in the day, but like I said, it's getting more and more appealing again! I've got a stroker motor sitting in the shop that needs to be thrown back together.
A cousin of mine builds sand rails and still swears by the VW motors, his last one was in Sand Sports the magazine, full Scat motor on boost and on juice, made something like 330hp with NO juice, and had a 150 shot ontop of that, and in a car weighing less than 800 lbs, it was wicked!
Just watch out with those bus transaxles, we had issues on the street with our slightly more stout motors breaking first gear keys, mostly on the stroker buggy with street tires and side stepping the clutch, but dang it! the wheelies are so much fun! A couple companies make hardened keys for them.
Oh! and another thing, make sure ALL the cooling tin goes back in them, we thought we would be smart and pull some tin out to hopefully increase the airflow, WRONG! Had nothing but trouble warping cylinders with the thinner wall BB cylinders, put the tin back in, not an issue.
BTW-is that a link-pin front end or a ball joint?
