V8 Twin turbo 450hp bug sounds awesome
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
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V8stealthbeetle Episode 15 The First Test Drive is a big show for us as we have the first proper test drive. A fitting end to the year. The V8stealthbeetle's first test drive as well as a look at the main obstacles Jean has had to overcome. She really is looking awesome at the moment. We also get a glimpse of the new body waiting to be fitted in the New Year.
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Just caught up on the latest vids... guys this thing is epic! The sound of that Audi V8 is awesome! Love the attention to detail in this vid. The chassis build and design is a work of art.
Hi Niall, thanks man, we're pushing ahead with the first production build now for Germany. Hope you're well Doug
That laser cut aluminum frame is a work of art. I give anything to just sit and chat with the engineers that designed it.
Agreed! Then I'd ask them to design one with a drive shaft or torque tube shaft for an awd version. Lol
Outstanding craftsmanship guys, love the chassis work.
That chassis surpassed being a work of art: there are no words.
id10tcertified I totally agree.
No words.......so I won't try and add any.👏🏽
The building quality is so nice ! I really like this little monster beetle
That slot/tab approach is genius
Awesome piece of engineering and proudly South African! Keep up the good work
I OWN A 1973 VW SUPER BEETLE It has a Twin Turbo Porsche Carrera Engine and Transmission in it and looks like at standard VW, It was built by Wolfgang Boober in Mainz Germany. My 10th lap at the Nurnberg Ring was 202mph and I still hold the record from the 70's I believe. I still have it. I like yours. My floor and chassis was modified also. I drove it to the track and home never spun a tire but in the 1/4 mile 8.9@156mph. Fun Fun. Lots of Maintenance. Did that when I was in the ARMY. With Air Conditioning.
very nice, thanks for sharing your story
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It is fast....in indonesia best record for 1/4miles 9 .2s....your car is fast....blaaaaarrrt...
One of the most beautiful and workmanship out there !!@
Just awesome 👍. Soooo clean. Truly a work of art . Love old air-cooled VW s
Love the stealth V8 Beetle, and love the engine choice with its twin turbos, is cool because it looks sow original and is not a Dune buggy, Marvelous, good work Jean that is haw all V8 Beetle should bee.....
The only vw beetle I ever liked was herby the love bug, until now. WOW!! I LOVE WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE
Kudos for impeccable craftsmanship and engineering! While my vision of the ultimate beetle may differ slightly I have nothing but respect for what you’ve done here.
Thanks Thomas
NICE WORK AND SOUNDS SWEET. SO GLAD YOU DIDN'T PLAY MUSIC WHILE TEST DRIVE.
Awesome work. Congrats! A great end to the year.
Thanks Nathan
I from Brazil and always following you .
I love the ``spicy VW Beetle ´´and I think it's amazing the work and the quality of the work you do .
Congratulations .
Thanks Roberto
Awesom! Can you just imagine how much fun Porsche hunting in one of these would be? A slightly tatty,little bit rusty and tired looking beetle would be the ultimate sleeper? Major want!
Erwin Schrödinger they could be hidden under the stock arches, painted to look like steels with hub caps? Maybe run wide steels? Unless looking under from rear they won't see the tyres,by the time they do notice they would be disappearing into the distance!
Put mudflaps on it and no one would be the wiser ;)
crowdy "?
Tbf a lot of beetles have fat wheels you wouldn't guess what was beneath the bonnet unless you were clued up
I'd love them to offer a Porsche flat six as an option. with back seats, true sleeper
Super work
Beautiful car and I love your production process.
this is the first aesthetically pleasing and professional build beetle i've seen, and that audi engine is subtle yet menacing
thanks for the comment, have you seen it in episode 16 yet?
just noticed there is episode 16, thanks
If I ever win the lottery I;ll be buying one. Fabulous work, fellas. Love what you have done and really enjoyed the YT series. Thank you.
Buy one? Why not build one yourself with the funds? Much more rewarding that way.
Sounds awesome!
Man! Somebody needs to develop an entire race class based on these little beasts.
Share this with your mates, it deserves more subs
what a badass idea.looks awesome.
Amazing engineering.
Nice see the shell still looks stock other than wheels/tyres - definitely the right look. 😁😁
Awesome build
This is Fantastic, Thank you much for sharing this awesome work!! Makes me want to Finish my Audi 4.2L 40V Swapped Porsche 924 even sooner! I will not be doing turbos, but will still have a good power ratio.
Wow that is pretty stealthy I want saw a big block beetle around the time in the 70s in high school while I was building my V8 Vegas I had a buddy that had a Porsche beetle that was really really fast nice job guys
Wow amazing works well done guys!
Thanks, finally you can get to see it drive.
Excellent work,
Beautiful job! My son and I are working on our 69 Ghia that we saved from the car crusher 👍 See ya out there on the road!
This is absolutely awesome. Not the first beetle with mid mounted Audi V8, but the very best designed chassis of them. I am very much impressed of your design and engineering skills, aluminium is definitely the way to go. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Anders, it's a lot of hard work but we're getting there
V8Stealth Beetle Yes I know very well how much hard work it is. I love VW's and I have many ideas for projects since many years, but I try to hold myself away from starting as I'm limited where I am now.
I also have a similar way of thinking as you, "do it right or don't do it". I may end up buying a chassis from you some day ☺
By the way, great choice of engine as it's in the family.
Hi guys just subscribed to your channel, you are incredible... Love the work...
Kester Nostra thanks. Glad you enjoy our passion
Verdadeira obra prima o chassi, baixo peso com potência alta combinação perfeita!
Brilliant, brilliant guys
Love the v8 beetle.
I tried to do this when I was 16 years old , I bought the bug and an Olds 401 engine and then had no idea where to begin xD
Paul Newman had a V8 beetle over 50 years ago. Dropping a Porsche motor in was the thing.
He had his racing team build a space chassis with a pantera transaxle and a 351 ford racing motor. It was basically a race car with a bug body. It is still around in a collection in California, last I heard.
Nice work mates! Over 40 years ago I dropped a small block Ford into one here in the states. Took me 9 months of fabbing but in the end you couldn’t even tell. Blacked out windows and a faux set of luggage in the “back seat” hid it from view.
Nice to see this one 👍🏻
Hugh G. Rekshin sounds awesome. Do you have any pics....
Beautiful workmanship looks amazing
This is one angry sounding beetle .
how could you dislike this
Absolutely sweet....
BEAUTIFUL
I love it. I want one
In the entire series little is mentioned about the transaxle. Where as it sourced? What specs?
IN EARLY EIGHTYS A GUY BROUGHT ONE TO THE TRACK IN SEATTLE WA HE HAD A 455 IN IT INSIDE BACK SEAT YOU NEVER KNEW IT WAS THERE. BUT GENE BURG BLEW HIM IN THE QUARTER MILE UNREAL DAY.
awesome
For added air you need for your radiator drill a few 2 inch holes in across the front end of the car right behind the bumper
Amazing👍
Can't wait for it to be in production , I want to buy one , and it looks like it can grip the road , Good Luck..
Hi Joey, it is in production, see episode 18. You can order direct from the factory starts at $80,000
@@V8StealthBeetle Wow , I don't know what to say...
@@joeyjenks2971 "I'll buy one" would be a good start...Enjoy
I had a 59 oval window, tho a collector now, it cant touch this sleeper... good God that's a sick bug...
Lol that chicken left the kitchen half plucked! Haaa ha ha ha!
Pretty Amazing Innovation! Truly Volkswagen Bettle car is a car of all season and all generations. Awesome job truly you are brilliant!
This thing is a deathtrap. I want one. I'd probably put a V6 TDI in it though. Bigger turbos, tune, and some other small stuff.
it's an amazing transformation, this is what I call thinking out of the box, what's the retail of one this go for ?
Great stuff. With either beetle body, do you plan to vent the fenders? They act like wings and actually lift the car from all the turbulent air from the spinning wheels (makes beetles unstable and higher speeds). Modern cars use fender liners to reduce the area between the tire surface and the underside of the fenders or race beetles for years have punch and flared the rearside of the fenders.
fukin epic! ive had 2 /new beetles and miss them! grrat job!
What transmission is used , and are there any intercoolers ?? Absolutely awesome build , and thanks for keeping it all German powered me 😉
What are the wheel and tire sizes?
Very nice
That is an awesome car for mass production, it would be very popular in the United States. Most people I know would love to have a little super sleeper turbocharged V8!!
How those this V8 measures against other cars in the 1/4 mile?
What is front and rear weight distribution?
why is the hot exhaust so close to the cold air intakes for turbos
That looks like SO much fun. Will love to see the production model.
I assume this is one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" kind of things.
Edit: UA-cam presented this as the latest video, but I see it's not. Going to check out the others now.
US$80,000
can you guys do this with my 70 fastback?
I would like to do something like that with my Karmann Ghia . I have hear that someone makes a kit for that .
Projeto audacioso......
Or a JUDD V8, great project, good job
How is it going with the beetle? It's so so cool!
Wow Damn I want one bad !!!!
This looks like a real piece of engineering? In 1965 I had a 1960 bug with a Buick Nail Head V/8 mounted in the front, 4 speed manual trans, corvette rear end I was only 17 years old and my Mother made me sell it? I wish I still had it. It was primary for autocross. From the outside you couldn't tell it from stock. I won a lot of street races back then. Great Video. Thanks
What size are the rear tires?
Sweet.
that car is just badass. people love "bugs" and people love power!!! wish you nothing but success. you guys set that prototype up perfectly!!
We put a 302 in a "68" bug mid-engine back in the late 70s, nothing new here.
Hi Jon, not trying to do anything new, just better... Cheers
... The car body will survive for another century..
LOVE IT!!!! Might buy one if theyre not too crazy. How about a 1 inch chop in the top?
I WANT ONE!!!!
Outstanding.
How big of a gas tank do you put in it?
I absolutely love it. My question is. Can you ship these TO the United STATES? I am very interested
Would love to see these come to Australia when finished!
Hey, I saw a Commodore ute there.
Paul Newmans V8 powered beetle is already in Queensland.
Would it fit in a '65 bus?
Hi guys stumbled across your build and loving it. One question is what transaxle are you using? Is it a cost affective alternative to the expensive ZF transaxle.
Libster cooless you could use a passat fwd v6 and gearbox as a cheap alternative they go pretty quick in a heavy passat or a adaptor to a 1uz on a vw bus sandrail spec trans or a ls with a shortened corvette transaxle
Note: the original Hp of a stock VW 1600 DP engine is 51hp. Quite an upgrade indeed.
This bug is bad ass
Man I love this thing! I wonder if they have any trouble with electrolysis marrying aluminum to steal like that?
Crazy!
Holy hell!!! Is this Herbie's next upgrade?
What about heat from the engine?
Absolutely love this channel and build! With so many gearheads out there and the high quality of your videos and content, you absolutely deserve many more followers!
As another (much less talented!) engineer, I'd love to know how much of the design has been finalized in CAD and analysis first - clearly the chassis at least has some CAD behind it, but how much, if any, of this is "figure it out as you go?"
I also saw in an earlier episode that there's at least a rollover hoop, but is there going to be a more substantial full cage involved? Seems like the hoop alone doesn't give a lot of fore/aft support without additional bracing.
Keep making amazing progress!
Hi Mickey, thanks for the kind words. We are trying to build the following but it takes time. To answer your more technical questions I need Jean to reply, he is on leave at the moment so I'll notify him. It might just take a week to get back to you though. Cheers for now
MickeyD100
Thank you Mickey
Yes, most is done in CAD, but lots also done from 20 years experience in engineering. I have done structural tests, torsional test and strength of materials.
As for the roll cage: chromolley has been banned in Europe, so we are doing in new roll cage in DOCOL. When complete, we will feature it in a future episode.
Thank you for your comments, and shout if I can help further.
Jean
Jean Fourie love it Jean, thank you! Super cool. I am loving the journey and you guys have made incredible progress!
You guys are psychotic and rad! Cool project
Walter Randall thanks
Sensacional meu sonho fazer algum assim no meu fusca.
Great engineering, would love to see a Ghia body version.
70s beetles you can cut up all day long. but ghias and anything air-cooled, pre '69, is hands off. like the gt40, a fibre glass ghia replica would be a better option for this kind of build.
How much to do my 61 double cab. Do you sell chassis for double cab. Ship to big island
Do you build left hand drive and how easy is it to export, I live in Canada and would love to have one on the road here.
ironmandan720 Yes, we do LHD.
I would have guessed carbon fiber to be the chassi material of the future.
all the VW needs now is a roof chop at the front, take the mid pillar out, would look a lot nicer and more aerodynamic.