Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi people, I thought I would post a pic of my Puma which may be of intrest to some. I bought it as a total wreck about 10 years back and as it had major parts of the of the front missing and I thought it would be easier to customise it rather than bring her back to standard. I started with a 2 l 8v Golf 3 motor on the beetle gear box with side draught carbs which was fine but the heavy over hang to the rear made it ass heavy and wallowy. I then progressed to removing the rear swing arm suspension and beetle gear box and made up a sub frame to take a golf 5 speed gearbox and golf2 cross member, drive shafts, shocks ect which resulted in a transverse mid mount setup. This improved the handling a lot compared to the beetles box set up. I then decided that a turbo would be good and them rebuilt the motor and fitted a hybrid T3 turbo and 550 rotary injectors.

MAN, that ride looks fast just standing still, nice I like

Awsome ride. show us pics of your motor and gear box set up ....................BAB

insane.... really looking good.
Good work!!!

The stance with those chunky tyres is absolutely wicked

If there's one word Blitz likes just as much as type 4, its stance

I'm a stance slut

Very nice indeed. Would love to feel how it goes.

Thanks for the kind words, I will get some motor pics.

That is one cool Cat!

I WANT ONE. Damn that's a nice puma.

I have seen many incarnations and mods on Pumas before,but the more I look at this one,the more I like it.

wow, i am normally not a fan of modding the puma body work, but i must say this looks hot. makes the car look like it wants to fly.
and those tires very cool.

That car just wakes the little kid in me. It's as cool as knightrider was to us in the 80's !! Fantastic looking.