VW 1500 Squareback with Megajolt

knastenrad · Post by **knastenrad** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:27 pm

HI
some pic's of my -66 VW squareback with the great Megajolt box

2,2Watercooled Vanagon Boxer with turbo, Water/air IC,Megasquirt/Megajolt

Post by **brentp** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:57 am

That is a simply gorgeous machine and a super clean engine layout, and turbocharged to boot! Thank you very much for sharing!

knastenrad · Post by **knastenrad** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:36 am

Thx! glad u like it

dr.occa · Post by **dr.occa** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:31 pm

wow, very clean engine bay. pristine looking car. great job on it!

Gilesy998 · Post by **Gilesy998** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:00 pm

Taht is one seriously pretty ol' dub

Is there anything we should know about the front grille? Never seen a T3 with a grille before

DannyP · Post by **DannyP** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:46 pm

I like it! You've got guts turboing a wasserleaker, dude. I hope you have spares!

How much boost are you running?

I have 91 Westy, pondering selling it.

Also have a type1 powered 550 Spyder, Megajolt to be installed this winter. System is ready to go, just have to pull the motor to mount the trigger wheel as it is mid-engine. No room to work between the pulley and the firewall.

knastenrad · Post by **knastenrad** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:16 pm

thx guy's.

Those leakey WBX are actually very nice and strong engines if you sort out the "small" issues regarding leaking.
Crank and case are bulletproof. great for turbo/torque.
I have experimented with turbo on a couple of other WBX engines , in a beetle i had. and the can handle a descent amount of boost.
Now i run 15PSI but had i up in 21PSI . (wastegate issue

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The grille is from a Superbeetle decklid... got to have some air to the radiator if front.
I try to use VW parts as long as it is practical.

knastenrad · Post by **knastenrad** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:18 pm

got some dyno result now after doing the map's my self.
pretty happy with the result.

260HP and 356NM of torque.

a lot thx to MEgajolt!

paulc · Post by **paulc** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:46 pm

care to share your MAP?

toomanyveedubs · Post by **toomanyveedubs** » Fri May 14, 2010 7:07 am

can you tell me more about your turbo setup?

tia

BRUCEROE · Post by **BRUCEROE** » Fri May 14, 2010 3:03 pm

Very impressive work. I suppose you have some sort of fuel injection? Bruce Roe