Old school cool.... J&J

To top that beauty off you should look for a front nose cone. My first mid engine was a j&j. Keep an eye on the welds on the frame. The aluminum cars are notorious for cracked welds. I’m sure that motor was running straight race fuel. Run nothing less. Congrats, that car is BA!!!

 
Big_Daddy_Jp said:
To top that beauty off you should look for a front nose cone. My first mid engine was a j&j. Keep an eye on the welds on the frame. The aluminum cars are notorious for cracked welds. I’m sure that motor was running straight race fuel. Run nothing less. Congrats, that car is BA!!!
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I had the nose cone and a wheelie bar for mine.  Never installed either though.  I guess the OG owners (brother's) of the one I had owned a VW salvage yard in the PHX area, and had a sand drag team with two of these chassis.  Mine was the back up chassis they duned.  I was sitting at Olds one Saturday, and one of the brothers came up to me.  He explained the history of it.  Was kinda neat.  I could see while polishing the side panels that it had some kind of decal/name on it from a ghosted/shadow, but couldn't make it out.  The brother told me it was "ShinyHeiny",  I could se it after that.  LOL  I sold it to a friend of a friend, saw it a car show once after that.  Then one day many years later I went into the Sandlimo shop to help Joe wire a new build, and there it sat.  Someone had put new vinyl on the side.  This time it was "Shine-omite"

It was on AV gas at 12lbs when I had it.  I had to repair the chassis several times.  Just fatigue.  Mostly in the engine area...

 
Big_Daddy_Jp said:
To top that beauty off you should look for a front nose cone. My first mid engine was a j&j. Keep an eye on the welds on the frame. The aluminum cars are notorious for cracked welds. I’m sure that motor was running straight race fuel. Run nothing less. Congrats, that car is BA!!!
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I have the nose cone for it... it’s sitting in the passenger seat in the first pic. My father in law did check compression and said it should be a pump gas motor 🤷‍♂️
 

I’ve looked this one over a lot and haven’t noticed any cracks yet, but I’ll have to get underneath it to confirm. She’s pretty clean!!

 
EmpirE231 said:
I have the nose cone for it... it’s sitting in the passenger seat in the first pic. My father in law did check compression and said it should be a pump gas motor 🤷‍♂️
 

I’ve looked this one over a lot and haven’t noticed any cracks yet, but I’ll have to get underneath it to confirm. She’s pretty clean!!
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Only way to check compression ratio would be to pull a head. Have the head cc’ed and check the deck height of the motor. Checking compression of cylinders by pulling a spark plug and turning it over is different. I’ve wanted so badly to buy another j&j set up like yours. One hell of a duning car if the sands not too beat up!

 
That is not a cooler....from the looks of it.  I could be seeing it wrong.

Coolers are set.up so they catch a breeze.  From the looks of it, that one doesn't.  It should be perpindicular to the air flow.

A filter should have a relief valve in it...unless it is going on a SBC, that has the relief in the mount.

 
Stinky said:
That is not a cooler....from the looks of it.  I could be seeing it wrong.

Coolers are set.up so they catch a breeze.  From the looks of it, that one doesn't.  It should be perpindicular to the air flow.

A filter should have a relief valve in it...unless it is going on a SBC, that has the relief in the mount.
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Looks like a cooler with fan over it 

 
Big_Daddy_Jp said:
Yes that’s a cooler with a fan. The fan is covered. Any plans to use that nifty nitrous tank holder?!!
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I guess it had NOS, and a crazy motor / race trans in it before my father in law got it. No plans for it as of know...... maybe hold a bottle of whiskey? 

 
Dude that had it was really into racing olds. Ran on alcohol. Drilled any weight he could out. 
he would leave camp with only half tank of fuel to save the weight. 
When I was young we used to camp with him

 
Alright... so what trans do I have here? Is this an 091? better...worse?

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It has a dif nose.cone on it for the mid.engine set.up.

But, T.1 was correct

 
EmpirE231 said:
Gotcha. Is that similar to a 091? I’m only familiar with 091 or “bus box” 
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No. But I ran one for years in car similar to what you have and it will hold up. They came in "bugs" but there are upgraded gears and parts for them. Weak point is side covers holding the carrier in place. If the move it allows the ring and pinion to loose there position and it tears the ring gear out. If it has like a 486 r&p, they are weaker then the original stock either 411 or 430 something. You can get heavy duty side plates as it looks as though yours are stock. Specially on the ring gear side. Also read where people removed the studs to the side plates and drilled all the way through and ran hardened bolt through from one side to the other.

Still I did hi rev side step the clutch all the time and it lived.

 
First time loading this old girl into the trailer. Changed the battery and topped off trans fluid. Gonna put around a little this weekend to see what kind of attention it needs to get it really dune worthy. It does leak a lot of trans fluid out of one of the boots. I am assuming the side plate seals need to be redone?? Is that something that can be done while in the car or do I need to pull the trans? EDIT! just went back and read some of the posts saying I just need to replace the boots only.... and I already have a new set of boots sitting in the garage... probably bought them right after posting this years ago lol

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Okay question about replacing the boots… to add silicone or to not add silicone around the boot sealing points?
 
I’m assuming this bad boy has Electronic Ignition (no points), if that ISN’T the case carry a penny in your pocket to clean the points. The sand gets in there and covers the contacts (ruff idle and backfiring).
I’d confirm the pump gas dealio if I were you, that motor may want higher octane.
 
BaBaBouy said:
I’m assuming this bad boy has Electronic Ignition (no points), if that ISN’T the case carry a penny in your pocket to clean the points. The sand gets in there and covers the contacts (ruff idle and backfiring).
I’d confirm the pump gas dealio if I were you, that motor may want higher octane.
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Lastly, Carcraft in Riverside California was the go-to for anything VW related, Ed used to own it but I believe Shane his son is the head guy now (if they’re still around), a wealth of information there and they were great at answering questions.
 
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