Grassroots Motorsports

Updates

• Front Brake Upgrade Feb. 05
  • Girling 60 front brake upgrade Factory 10 inch brake rotors and 54mm calipers never …
• Harness bar stand offs Feb. 27

  I’m in the process of installing a firewall in the car, this has been high …

• Fearful Fuel Tank Fettling March 20

  In order to install the firewall without undue fiddling I had to move the fuel …

• Parking Lot Impropriety March 20

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQHjKYa75I Spring fever, welded rear diff, naughty behavior.

• Air Box Upgrade April 11

  The rear engine was using a stock scirocco plastic intake box, this worked out very …

• Firewall Sheeting April 11

  After a fruitless search for cheap honeycomb sandwich aluminum I went with .040 sheeting. I …

• 02A transmission swaps Sept. 09

  All 5 speed A1 VW’s use a linkage to shift the transmission and a cable …

Comments

Tim Baxter:

Nice pic
Feb 3, 2009 1:35 p.m.

JRCook320:

twin engines? a front and rear mount? details please. cool.
Feb 4, 2009 8:18 p.m.

Luke:

There was a thread on the old board about this car. You could try and dig that up. There's some sweet videos floating around, too. Awesome car.
Feb 5, 2009 4:19 a.m.

93celicaGT2:

Holy crap…. i can't decide if this is the coolest or dumbest thing i've ever seen. I'm going to vote for coolest. Do you get a lot of strange looks as people hear you going down the road, but look around for the second car? The echo-effect in your videos caused by both motors is almost creepy.
Feb 6, 2009 5:20 p.m.

Stuc:

Yep! http://archive.grassrootsmotorsports.com/board/… Love it! Glad to see you're still working on it
Feb 27, 2009 11:15 a.m.

EastCoastMojo:

Is this the famous Durocco?! How sweet is that? I'm voting it up.
Apr 10, 2009 8:30 p.m.

ReStoring:

hey dude congrats on the featured ride. I'm on Dubkorps with ya.
Aug 15, 2009 5:11 p.m.