kid builds 510

[WagDatto]

Bummer. Sorry to hear you're abandoning your project and forfeiting the option of selling it to recoup any of your money back from it, too.

 

With the swap your planning on, you'll need not only a welder, but you'll need a helluvalot of fab experience and automotive knowledge to get this thing put together. Money, too.

 

It seems easy to "slap a motor and trans in, run a few wires and call it good," but there's so much more to it than that.

 

How are you going to get the crossmember to work? How about the steering? Any plans for a whole new steering rack and setup? What about cooling, and the fact that because the motor sits in a different spot, you'll have to cut the whole core support center out and push a radiator up into the grill... and even then, what kind of fans will you try to squeeze between the crank pulley and the radiator fins? Oh, and brakes... You'll be running a MUCH heavier engine in front of your front brakes, now, do you plan on upgrading? Because if not, you'll bury it in the first turn you take. Oh, and exhaust... Thoughts on squeezing two exhaust pipes between the trans and frame rails? What headers will you fab to fit?

 

Anyway, after you fail at this project, the only chance you have at saving the poor rust bucket will be to basically cut the front end off in front of the firewall and weld a new one back on. Oh, and the trans tunnel, since that whole thing will need to be cut out and replaced with something taller/wider... So nevermind, the only chance you'll have at saving it is recycling the whole car and hoping whatever it gets melted down into gets put to better use.

 

Or you could return that motor and use the money on something more practical... Like a KA, SR, CA, L series...

[Z chopper]

unfortunantly I see alot more negative critisism than positive critisism, none of us know this kid in person or what help or experience he has already.

 

I think if more posiive critisism happened and alternatives offered the kid would have stuck around instead of leaving the forum

[banzai510(hainz)]

Post when its done

[datzenmike]

unfortunantly I see alot more negative critisism than positive critisism, none of us know this kid in person or what help or experience he has already.

 

I think if more posiive critisism happened and alternatives offered the kid would have stuck around instead of leaving the forum

 

 

The experienced know when not to ride in a car when it's going down hill and off a cliff. The more experienced stopped pushing a long way back.

 

How can you not say something that will prevent a waste of time, effort and more important, a car? No harm done if he's successful but who want's to be part of a trainwreck? Part of success is thinking in the negative. What if? Examining the negative leads to innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention.

[WagDatto]

Even the posts that are being dubbed "negative" should be considered a positive opinion. Nobody told him he can't do it, and if he has professional help and tons of money to buy all the parts necessary, then cool maybe it will get finished at some point in the distant future. But from everything he's said and asked and filled us in with, the general consensus is that he'd be better off familiarizing himself with not only HIS car, but cars in GENERAL by beginning with a different motor goal and getting the car drivable first.

 

Sadly, even if he does get the motor (any motor for that matter) in the car and running, I have a feeling he will disregard the strut tube issue that has been pointed out to him. He'll make a left turn, the suspension will collapse, and someone will either get hurt or killed, and the car will be scrapped anyway. All because he'd rather spend the small amount of money he DOES have on an unrealistic goal rather than making the car safe and complete.

 

Hope he gets some sense knocked into him before then.

[71ka510]

shut your pie hole mr blottie you dont even own a datto anymore.. you gave up too hahahhahha j/k beotch

[Laecaon]

shut your pie hole mr blottie you dont even own a datto anymore.. you gave up too hahahhahha j/k beotch

 

Confusion ensues... :confused:

[71ka510]

mr. blottie = wagdatto inside joke......

[Laecaon]

Ok, well this thread is dead anyways, He started a new one going with the highly suggested KA.

[.sunlover]

He learns! lol. kid has potential. no need to re-invent the wheel, 510 is a great car as is. a bit better will be plenty to satisfy. KA will be better yet. :)

[71ka510]

no plans for a bugatti/vw w-12 huh lol