Hell. It sounds like the little straight 6 diesel engine that grasshopper mowers used. It was blue. It was very strong. I wanted it just for the engine
Now, that’s the only thing I have against some people that have diesel powered vehicles. They have to make as much smoke and diesel soot as possible. Then the politicians get wind of it and then tighter restrictions come into play. I have a Kubota tractor with diesel and I want it to be clean burning. I like the buggy and the build.
Would you really want to go faster than 50mph in this? The tranny is completely regeared, ive gone 60 on the highway at 2000rpm. 1-3 are super low, 4th is super high, 3.88 R&P
@@joeysprojects9081 Yeah, on the street the speed limit would be nice. Lucky you got the higher ratio in it. If I remember right back 20 years ago most of my cars all had the lower 4 ratios.
@@fivepointeightnate the whole drivetrain is now in a full body super beetle. Same engine and trans, with the 3.88 r&p. I made a mistake, the dune buggy had a 4.86 r&p i believe, but had 35 inch tires
For a while it was registered as a “VW Beetle” and at the time i worked at a shop as a mechanic and would inspect cars......but as it became a stretch with photos and such, i had to register it as a custom homebuilt vehicle
Nice buggy I'm not sure what state you are in but I love Arizona because buggies side by sides and pretty much anything you can drive you can register as long as you pass inspection
@@joeysprojects9081 thanks. I just got mine. its from amazon though. I would never thought of buying that quick release steering if I hadn't came across your video. thanks.!!
Just curious on why this particular 1.9TDI and not say the ALH variant which was more common to the states? Also this thing looks really damn cool. Was this a knock down buggy?
While i was looking for a more common diesel to the US, usually the engine was in another rotbox, and it was getting hard to find. I really wanted something i could drop into the car and not have to rebuild it or anything. Also at the time, i wasnt sure if there was even a totally mechanical “one wire” vw diesel that wasnt N/A. If i could do it again, i mightve tried to get an MTDI or even an older TDI and tried to make it work with an ECU, wouldve been much more powerful. But, i got a really great deal from qualitygermanautoparts.com, the engine was under 75k miles and totally checked over with no issues. Ready to rock. Blocked off the EGR, cranked the pump up, slapped on a much bigger turbo-after i put it into my new beetle its in another video, i sold this buggy and dropped the drivetrain into a super beetle-and i ran it. Its great, but if this motor has issues anytime soon or i get bored enough, i might try to go with a newer motor. We shall see
Only thing that I know of was taking a mechanical Bosch VE pump and put it on either an AHU or ALH. The 1.6 IDI can be turbo'd, but that does take some work. Don't blame you one bit, this turned out to be a really great build.
@@Ratkill9000 thanks man! I think I knew that about the 1.6 but back then probably not. Yes the car needed a lot of hours of work, so I didn’t really want it to be a two-year job and have to do engine stuff as well. Just wanted a good heart to drop in and drive this thing. Check out my super beetle video as well!
@@EnsVibes check out some newer videos i posted, i have since put the powertrain into a full beetle. Not sure if it would be cheaper, theres a lot of small things you need to do, like obviously figure out a radiator, fuel tank can be used but you need a fuel return to the tank, and you need some form of mount for the engine, even if its simple
@@joeysprojects9081 Mexican watercooled bus transaxle can fit a gasoline/diesel engine with no adapter. I have a fiberglass buggy I want to build for off roading and I want a td engine on it. 33" tires on the back and 7.00 on the front, full pan buggy, I already have a 20 gallon fuel tank, radiator? Same place where you got yours. Whats the top speed and mpg on your build? How does it behave off roading?
This was in MA, arguably a tough place to register something of this nature. It was registered as a 67 beetle since it had the VIN, but MA was starting to become more strict on car inspections at the time, so you couldnt just “know a guy” and get an inspection sticker. I was in the process of re-registering the car as a “custom homebuilt vehicle”, which is totally legal, just needed to add a few things, but ended up going into a different direction and swapping this drivetrain into another car. For states with no inspections, youd have an easy time doing what i did and not even needing to think about it
Jerald Earl thanks! Theres a lot of details about how i did it in the description, but its a vw idi AAZ from germany, a benco racing swingaxle, and a kennedy adapter plate. So still all vw technically!
@@joeysprojects9081 yeahhh. I'm not at that point yet lol I'm just now learning how to do timing job on the alh tdis Im learning tho. I'm thinking about buying a full swap out of a Cherokee he just wants to keep the Cherokee and put a LS in it but is selling the tdi, mounts wiring adapters plates everything tdi related out of it
@@BRWfilms if youre good at wiring and don’t mind dealing with the electrical I’d say go with that. You can also put a mechanical pump on an ALH if you dont want to deal with electronics. Theres a guy in SC “hans auto parts”- they take ALHs and put mech pumps on them
Motor was running for about 20 seconds before i revved it, on a 75 degree day, oil has reached the entire motor within 10 seconds......are you one of those degens that thinks you have to run an engine for 20 minutes before you drive anywhere???
Fuck that twats mint
I love that song
The song of a nasty diesel, angry, ready to tear a new ass
Hell yeah man
Hell. It sounds like the little straight 6 diesel engine that grasshopper mowers used. It was blue. It was very strong. I wanted it just for the engine
ooooh the ideas are turning now.
nice rod. i dig it.
If you think thats cool check out my other video! I put the same setup into a super beetle
My Minds thinks about Grandpa on The Munsters.
Sweet
So cool, need to get one myself one day.
What a bad ass buggy!
Thanks man
Now, that’s the only thing I have against some people that have diesel powered vehicles. They have to make as much smoke and diesel soot as possible. Then the politicians get wind of it and then tighter restrictions come into play. I have a Kubota tractor with diesel and I want it to be clean burning. I like the buggy and the build.
If you want more power theres going to be a little smoke. This is a mechanical 80’s diesel. It smokes bone stock
Hi friend, what type of engine did you use to adapt, how it behaves with the original transmission of the VW

Vw AAZ 1.9TD from 90’s vw, Kennedy engineering adapter plate, and Benco racing trans
I envy you, in Poland it is not possible to register home-made vehicles
It certainly should be. If giant coorporations can cheaply produce cars and sell them overpriced with low quality, we should be able to build our own
Wow I want that!!
Very good car!!!
Good video Ciampa, can't wait to collab.
Nice 😎
Una pasada. Tienes los planos para fabricar la jaula
Nice.
That's a monster ❤️
I wanna see it driving
Theres another video on my channel man
@@joeysprojects9081 awesome!
Low RPM diesel and a low geared VW trans.... What is your top speed 45mph?
Would you really want to go faster than 50mph in this? The tranny is completely regeared, ive gone 60 on the highway at 2000rpm. 1-3 are super low, 4th is super high, 3.88 R&P
@@joeysprojects9081 Yeah, on the street the speed limit would be nice. Lucky you got the higher ratio in it. If I remember right back 20 years ago most of my cars all had the lower 4 ratios.
@@fivepointeightnate the whole drivetrain is now in a full body super beetle. Same engine and trans, with the 3.88 r&p. I made a mistake, the dune buggy had a 4.86 r&p i believe, but had 35 inch tires
@@joeysprojects9081 That wouldn't be too bad since your best torque would be 2000-2500 about 47-58MPH. Didn't realize you had that big of a tire.
That's how you break a diesel crankshaft
You sound like you know absolutely nothing
Whats the rear view mirror for, to make sure youre still rollin coal :3
First: make sure my soot screen is still working.......second, to pass inspection 😂
Hell yeah
Know this is has been out for a while but also in MA, how did you register it??
For a while it was registered as a “VW Beetle” and at the time i worked at a shop as a mechanic and would inspect cars......but as it became a stretch with photos and such, i had to register it as a custom homebuilt vehicle
Nice buggy I'm not sure what state you are in but I love Arizona because buggies side by sides and pretty much anything you can drive you can register as long as you pass inspection
In Brazil is illegal this type of vehicle in the streets, and diesel is only released for trucks...
No Brasil é uma merda essas leis. Já pensou q top andar com uma dessas na rua kkkk
AMAZING!!!!
The air filter location will be a problem
@@texastony74 pointless comment and wrong
Mpg?
I like your quick release steering wheel. what are they?
The ebay special!!! Quite literally trusting ebay with my life
@@joeysprojects9081 thanks. I just got mine. its from amazon though. I would never thought of buying that quick release steering if I hadn't came across your video. thanks.!!
Dislikers are greta thunberg and her cat
Diesel is love, diesel is life
Just curious on why this particular 1.9TDI and not say the ALH variant which was more common to the states? Also this thing looks really damn cool. Was this a knock down buggy?
While i was looking for a more common diesel to the US, usually the engine was in another rotbox, and it was getting hard to find. I really wanted something i could drop into the car and not have to rebuild it or anything. Also at the time, i wasnt sure if there was even a totally mechanical “one wire” vw diesel that wasnt N/A. If i could do it again, i mightve tried to get an MTDI or even an older TDI and tried to make it work with an ECU, wouldve been much more powerful. But, i got a really great deal from qualitygermanautoparts.com, the engine was under 75k miles and totally checked over with no issues. Ready to rock. Blocked off the EGR, cranked the pump up, slapped on a much bigger turbo-after i put it into my new beetle its in another video, i sold this buggy and dropped the drivetrain into a super beetle-and i ran it. Its great, but if this motor has issues anytime soon or i get bored enough, i might try to go with a newer motor. We shall see
Only thing that I know of was taking a mechanical Bosch VE pump and put it on either an AHU or ALH. The 1.6 IDI can be turbo'd, but that does take some work.
Don't blame you one bit, this turned out to be a really great build.
@@Ratkill9000 thanks man! I think I knew that about the 1.6 but back then probably not. Yes the car needed a lot of hours of work, so I didn’t really want it to be a two-year job and have to do engine stuff as well. Just wanted a good heart to drop in and drive this thing. Check out my super beetle video as well!
What style of clutch? Og or bigger one?
The beefiest one KEP makes
@@joeysprojects9081 got any more videos of it? I have an old class 9 car but og engines here are expensive and Ive been thinking about a tdi, cheaper.
@@EnsVibes check out some newer videos i posted, i have since put the powertrain into a full beetle. Not sure if it would be cheaper, theres a lot of small things you need to do, like obviously figure out a radiator, fuel tank can be used but you need a fuel return to the tank, and you need some form of mount for the engine, even if its simple
@@joeysprojects9081 Mexican watercooled bus transaxle can fit a gasoline/diesel engine with no adapter. I have a fiberglass buggy I want to build for off roading and I want a td engine on it. 33" tires on the back and 7.00 on the front, full pan buggy, I already have a 20 gallon fuel tank, radiator? Same place where you got yours. Whats the top speed and mpg on your build? How does it behave off roading?
@@EnsVibes i have since sold it, but it was a brute offroad. Let the clutch out and it would practically idle through anything
How is this street legal? Can you make it street legal in every state?
This was in MA, arguably a tough place to register something of this nature. It was registered as a 67 beetle since it had the VIN, but MA was starting to become more strict on car inspections at the time, so you couldnt just “know a guy” and get an inspection sticker. I was in the process of re-registering the car as a “custom homebuilt vehicle”, which is totally legal, just needed to add a few things, but ended up going into a different direction and swapping this drivetrain into another car. For states with no inspections, youd have an easy time doing what i did and not even needing to think about it
Which motor is in this?
Thats a VW AAZ. Its an older IDI
Looks great! What engine/transmission are you using? Are you using an adapter or all VW stuff.
Jerald Earl thanks! Theres a lot of details about how i did it in the description, but its a vw idi AAZ from germany, a benco racing swingaxle, and a kennedy adapter plate. So still all vw technically!
Mantap bang.. saya juga lagi bikin mini buggy 😁🙏😊....
Bahasa Inggris lah bang 😳
Mana paham dia bahasa Indonesia
I want to buy something like this would you sell it?
Sorry man, already sold a while ago. They are not difficult to build!
@@joeysprojects9081 yeahhh. I'm not at that point yet lol I'm just now learning how to do timing job on the alh tdis
Im learning tho. I'm thinking about buying a full swap out of a Cherokee he just wants to keep the Cherokee and put a LS in it but is selling the tdi, mounts wiring adapters plates everything tdi related out of it
@@BRWfilms if youre good at wiring and don’t mind dealing with the electrical I’d say go with that. You can also put a mechanical pump on an ALH if you dont want to deal with electronics. Theres a guy in SC “hans auto parts”- they take ALHs and put mech pumps on them
Tooop D+
I guess you're not the most favourite person on your street?...... personally I love it but I'm not old and moany....
Ingin sekali bikin... By las wates
Bhai iska rate kya hai
pd130?
No, 1.9 AAZ
@@joeysprojects9081 mines a pd130 asz 1.9 tdi skoda fabia vrs
Hell yeah this is rad. I'm swapping a k20 in my baja right now not far from you in ct. Check it out on my channel
POLUI O MEIO AMBIENTE...MUITA FUMAÇA.....
Dude that’s like one of the main rules about engines. You don’t rev it while it’s still cold. Come on man
Ahhhhh the internet mechanic. Thanks for the advice man, i had no idea!!
Motor was running for about 20 seconds before i revved it, on a 75 degree day, oil has reached the entire motor within 10 seconds......are you one of those degens that thinks you have to run an engine for 20 minutes before you drive anywhere???
Narration would have made this video a good video. Sadly that didn't happen.
Right, and if i narrated you wouldve commented “narration ruined this video” 😂
@@joeysprojects9081😂😂😂
O MELHOR E MAIS HONESTO PRESIDENTE DO BRASIL DE TODOS OS TEMPOS JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO "O MITO"🙌.
Só Se for na puta que pariu!!!!