 
Ian Frisch
Westminster, Massachusetts
1977 Rabbit
ReDMurphy02@aol.com
www.vwvortex.com
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2.1l 9a Block
9:1 JE Pistons
New Hot Tank and Hone
Balanced and Polished Crank
1.8l 16v Head
Polished Intake Manifold
GT32 Turbocharger
Custom Turbo Manifold
02A Transmission
Cable Shift Conversion
FMIC with Custom Piping
Custom Downpipe
Techtonics Exhaust
Megasquirt n' Spark Engine Management
FK Silverline Coilovers
8" Custom Wide Steelies
Custom offsets (et32 and et 28)
Headlight Eye Lids
Roof Luggage Rack
Removed Matching Rear Seats
Custom Wood Grain with Carpet Trim Inserts
Stock
To finish the turbo build within the next
few weeks, running well and with the power
numbers I'm looking for. After that I just
hope to drive it a lot and have fun doing so.
I'd to eventually get a respray of the paint,
chrome euro bumpers and just tidy up some of
the smaller things, but as of now I'm very
pleased.
Project is not 100% complete, but WILL be
done for H20 in the later part of September.
When I first purchased the car it had the 16v
conversion with Weber 40DCOE side daughts with
the TT exhaust and the FK Coilovers. Sitting
on 14" Polished Pirelli P-slots.
Being a snowboard junky, after I graduated
high school in the spring of 2005 I decided to
move to Salt Lake City, Utah to have a fun
winter snowboarding and goofing off with my
friends. So I packed up my Mk4 GTI 1.8t, which
I recently purchased and drove the 2,500 miles
to SLC. After a few months of driving the 1.8t
and seeing a lot of other dubs that I enjoyed,
I got a little antsy and was ultimately
looking for a semi project for when I moved
back to the East Coast after winter. I found
the '77 and HAD to have it. I traded my GTI in
that week and convinced my friend Mike to
drive me 15 hours through the icy, dangerous
and cruel Rock Mountains to Portland, OR where
the car was for sale. Bought the car for 3,800
and drove it back to SLC. Surprisingly it
treated me very well that winter, with only
minor problems. I had a good chunk of change
left over from the GTI, so I started picking
together a turbo kit with the help of a few
buddies from 30-20 shop which was local in SLC.
After the last few months of winter, it was
time to pack up and go back home to
Massachusetts. I was pretty nervous about the
trek home...alone and in a new car (Not to
mention it being 30 years old) In a nutshell,
the oil pump went and I punched a rod through
my block....in western Indiana, over a
thousand miles from home. Me and the car made
it home safe, and all the thank you goes to my
mother. Being home, safe, over the whole
ordeal, and without a working car...I got to
work. My buddy Eric and myself pulled the
engine and tranny within a few days and that
is how she sits today, awaiting the engine
from the machine shop. A lot of work to do to
the new block/head, so I knew it was gonna be
a little bit of a wait. Even though I haven't
driven her in a while, the coils are still fun
to tinker with and adding and making new
things while the project is still going. |
