how to make a dune buggy out of an old vw?

Question

I remember watching an old eposide of monster garage and in one show they made a dune buggy out of an old vw bug does anyone know of a site or something where I can find a step by step process on how to do this????

Answer 1

Personally, I'm a fan of the old Myers or Fiberfab body kits.
All you basically do is pull the body off the pan & pop the fiberglass buggy body on. Sometimes, the pan needs to be shortened, which requires cutting & welding. And, of course, the steering column needs to be mounted & lighting rewired.
I've seen Beetles converted to Buggies in a single weekend, with 2 guys.

Answer 2

It's actually fairly easy to get close to 100hp out a Beetle motor. A 1776cc kit, a decent cam, and a 2bbl weber would get you closer than you think. I've built rails before. The last one I built had an almost stock 1600 in it. The whole thing weighed about 600 pounds. With a stock motor it would scoot fast enough to chase Mustang GT's . 60hp with 600pounds 10 pounds per hp. Mustang GT weights 3480 and packs 318hp. Almost 11 pounds per hp.

Answer 3

http://www.banditbuggy.com/bandit.htm
http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=vw+dune+buggy+kit&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAvBQeAWIxgEAz.LQkrH9KwQazKIX%2FSIG%3D11i05gjre%2FEXP%3D1182042628%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DArd0EJ_yEsupgDI_VRDvya8azKIX%2FSIG%3D121varilf%2FEXP%3D1182042628%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=vw+dune+buggy+kit
Ain't the internet great!! Put a few words in a search engine and out pops the answer.
Had a neighbor long time ago that made one with tube frame and a VW engine/trans---was pretty cool.
Good luck.

Answer 4

I know Meyers Manix has a website try meyersmanix.com or google it.