Hassmeister
01-26-2005, 07:19 PM
My first car when I joined the Air Force in '77:
'69 VW Beetle was originally baby blue.
• Dupont Racy Red
• Domus Flatback Kit Car
• Claudes Buggies 1850cc, dual 40 DCNF Weber(150 HP approx)
• Empi Autocross Cam
• Gene Berg 4 speed racing trans w/ short throw shifter
• Gene Berg Super Diff
• Porsche fan shourd w/oil cooler
• Gene Berg Big Valve heads w/High ratio rockers
• Gene Berg deep sump oil pan and spin on oil filter
• Particle board bed with oak rails and 4 coats Valspar Boat Varnish
• Huge custom swaybars front and rear
Featured in Hot VW's Magazine and sold threw them for twice what I had invested in it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/FlatBack.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/Flatbackeng.jpg
My Second ride '70 Roadrunner 383HPerf with Airgrabber hood was 335HP stock.
Modded it with Direct Connection Parts out of their catalog and would do mid 12's in the Qtr mile at 110 MPH. Awesome burnouts!
• Dana 4:10 w/Smith Bros axles
• Fairbanks Racing A-727B auto trans w/ 4,200 stall speed converter and special valve body for manual shifting the trans
• Fairbanks Trans oil cooler
• B&M Slick shift trans oil
• B&M Starshifter with front brake line lock adapted
• 383HP bored 60 over with 11:50 to 1 pistons with chrome rings and DC Heavy Duty Connecting Rods (ate 440's and 428 SCJ's and 396 Chevys). The motor would really rap out - serious upper end to it.
• Direct Connection Racer Brown cam 500 lift 302 duration
• Direct Connection Aluminum Big Valve racing heads with high ratio Titanium Rockers and push rods
• Hooker Large tube headers
• 2 1/2" diam custom exhaust piping w/cross pipe and Walker Redline Z mufflers (bad ass drag car sound, ca thump, ca thump at idle)
• Lakewood traction bars
• Mallory High Energy Racing Igintion system
• 440 Commando radiator
• Aluminum Water pump housing
• Weiand Aluminum intake manifold with Carter 750 CFM Carb vac secondaires
• Moroso Deep sump high capacity oil pan, Moroso High volume oil pump/pick up and windage tray
A lot of people thought my car had a stick, because I had special valve body in the trans that let me shift thru the gears like a stick. This thing did awesome burnouts and had tons of torque!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/RunnR1.jpg
My 3rd ride... '67 VW Microbus it's parked next to the Runner (AKA: party bus and Mobile Tool Unit)1600cc Built from a JC Whitney catalog 20MPG HWY. $500 total invested in it! My parts hauler for my Runner when I rebuilt it to Race and hauled all my dorm freinds car parts in it too!
4th ride was a '70 VW Beetle I bought to drive across the USA from ND to Calif and back. Nothing special just stock 1600 with a Holley 2 Barrel carb and header. Was lowered to be a Cal Looker. Got 32 MPG on HWy.
5th car was a '83 GTI which I still have today. Was stripped to bare metal a few years ago at a Street Rod Shop and received a full repaint in stock Royal Red and a shot of clear coat ($3,000 paint job). All seals were replaced and pinstripping too.
has the following in it:
• Techtonics 1960cc Torque Monster Motor Hand built by Collin my good friend who does the R&D for Techtonics Tuning (we go long back to '88 or so).
• Welded Intake manifold and port matched Neuspeed Large throttle body(NO adapter plates here boys)
• Fed Amsoil since break in
• VW Motorsport 4:25 ring and pinion in stock 5 speed trans with Quaiffe diff and .80 5th gear
• Sachs sport 210 clutch and press plate w/light weight flywheel
• Techtonics short throw shifter kit and Euro Golf Ball
• Techtonics Euro exhaust manifold port matched to techtonics twin down pipe to full stainless 2" exhaust.
• Euro "N" grind cam (solid not hyd)
• High lift valve springs
• Formula one oil cooler w/thermo plate
• Heavy duty CV joints
• Braided brake lines throughout
• Scirrocco 10" ATE U-Groove vented 16v front brake discs
• VW pickup rear brake drums
• Mintex Red Box pads at all 4's
• Centra type 11 wheels on Pirelli 205VR5514 tires (yes they stil have the nubs on them too)
• H&H racing sway bar/stress bar on front lower suspension
• GMP upper stress bar
• H&H rear tubular bar and stock sway bar
• ABT rear upper stress bar
• Neuspeed Koni Sport Autocross shocks and struts
• Poly bushings in all suspension components
• "Hebb" Autocross springs 1 1/2" lower ride height
• '84 GTI Bumper brackets (these took 48 lbs off the car - old autox trick)
• Hella H4 German glass headlight buckets with high watt bulbs
• Momo Cobra steeringwheel w/ GTI horn button in center
Featured in VW trends Magazine.
Was always in top of DSP Solo II in San Fran and Fresno SCCA Clubs.
Car weighs 1960lbs.
Car will do a burnout in 3rd gear. Difficult to say since traction is a problem with this motor, but sub 14's in Qtr are very possible.
Car is a sleeper... looks stock.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/11812769-5300-02000180-.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/jpg.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/11812771-bb18-02000180-.jpg
6th car...
'70 240Z found in farmers field in Calif for $150 (was in a fire). The real 350Z!
• Porsche guards red (friend painted for me for beer and pizza and one of my fav guns)
• Corvette LT1 crate motor with Lunati cam and racing heads
• Edlebrock manifold w/Holley Projection
• Custom street rod headers
• Stock HEI Ignition
• 300ZX Brake booster and master cylinder
• Turbo 350 trans with B&M shifter and oil cooler
• Nissan Motorsports rearend with 3.20 pumpkin(had 3.55's ad all I could do is burn the tires off the car)
• Custom 2 1/2" exhaust piping w/sandwiched mufflers side-by-side out the rear tail in the stock location - very quiet!
• 9x15 Revolution wheels in back with BFG R1 tires
• 8x15 Revolutions on BFG's in front
• Nissan motorsports swaybars/stress bars
• Bilstein race coilovers throughout
• Nissan special fabed race discs and calipers at all 4's
• 1/4 roll cage and 4 point racing harness
• 280Z hood with vents
• NASCAR Aluminum Radiator
• Battery box in trunk
• Nissan Motorsports lowering springs
Pulled 12.50 at 110MPH at Sacromento Dragstrip in street mufflers with street BFG's. 0-60 in under 5! It would actually brake as fast as it accellerated. It would place your eyeballs in the back of your head under acceleration and pull your heart out when braking - just (f)ucking awesome! One on the fastest cars I have ever built or driven and still be street legal.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zsides.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Z.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zhoodinside.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zinside.jpg
7th vehicle was an old Datsun pickup that I traded for a '81 VW pickup (8th vehicle) and made into a GTI pickup when I lived in Merced Calif for 6yrs...
• '85 GLI motor with knock sensor ignition
• Shrick 268 degree Hyd cam and Serious port and polish head job by Collin at Techtonics Tuning
• Fed Amsoil since break in
• European oil cooler housing and sandwichplate w/front mount oil cooler
• Huge COPPER old style radiator (the key to keeping the old A1/MK1 cooler)
• Lower rate fan thermo switch. lower rate thermostat too.
• '83 GTi trans w/.75 5th
• Sachs sport clutch and 190 press plate
• Techtonics Short throw shift kit and Euro Golf Ball
• H&H upper stress bar
• H&H lower stress bar/swaybar
• H&H rear lower stress bar with short lever arms
• Bilstien Sport shocks/struts
• Braided brake lines throughout
• GTi front ATE U-Groove discs with Mintex Red box pads at all 4's
• Hella H4 headlight buckets with high watt light bulb
• GTi front grille
• GTI wheel well arches at all 4's
• GTI front chin spoiler
• Euro Rabbit front bumper
• BBS RA wheels 14x6" on yokos
• '84 GTI Midnight Blue dash, console, instrumentation, seats, carpet
• '84 GTI A.C. system
• Techtonics Euro exhaust manifold and downpipe to 2" exhaust and piping
• Diesel Motor mounts throughout
This baby ate 16valve 2.0 liter VW's all day for lunch! The headwork and cam were the secret... just great work by Collin at Techtonics!
It was a flat handling truck thanks to H&H for his bars he built special for this truck!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gti_side.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gtifront0001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gtiengine0001.jpg
>>>I still have a brand new (shortblock) 2.0 liter handbuilt GERMAN "steel crank" (not Brazil) bubble block with 11- 1's in it in a crate in my garage that Collin built for the Pickup. <<<
9th car... pristine '95 Jetta GLX Flash Red with techtonics exhaust and chip... wife rolled it six times on back counry road missing a cyotee on the road at 50 MPH :0((....
10th car '98.5 Audi A4 1.8t 5-speed sport package Quattro Casablanca White.
A SLEEPER with mudguards!!
• Amsoil since break-in
• GIAC K04 chip
• K04 turbo
• SPP Traditional FMIC
• Forge Type Piston DV
• Hella Glass Euorpean Highlight buckets with 80 watt super Bright bulbs
• Techtonics 2 1/2" Full stainless exhaust Twin Borla muffler system with dual tips
• ATE U-Groove front discs
• Zimmerman rear discs
• Mintex Red Box Pads at all 4's
• Braided brakes lines at all 4's
• Lower rate radiator thermo switch
• Lower rate thermostat
• Stock Sport wheels on Yoko AVS ES100 tires
• Bilstein shock/struts
Plus a few secret items too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/Audi_-_Medium0002.jpg
11th
Last but not least... the dreaded 2003 GMC Envoy with the inline 275HP six. Wife's ride for hauling our dogs around. Fed Amsoil. Got rid of my '81 pickup to get this if you can believe it.
'69 VW Beetle was originally baby blue.
• Dupont Racy Red
• Domus Flatback Kit Car
• Claudes Buggies 1850cc, dual 40 DCNF Weber(150 HP approx)
• Empi Autocross Cam
• Gene Berg 4 speed racing trans w/ short throw shifter
• Gene Berg Super Diff
• Porsche fan shourd w/oil cooler
• Gene Berg Big Valve heads w/High ratio rockers
• Gene Berg deep sump oil pan and spin on oil filter
• Particle board bed with oak rails and 4 coats Valspar Boat Varnish
• Huge custom swaybars front and rear
Featured in Hot VW's Magazine and sold threw them for twice what I had invested in it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/FlatBack.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/Flatbackeng.jpg
My Second ride '70 Roadrunner 383HPerf with Airgrabber hood was 335HP stock.
Modded it with Direct Connection Parts out of their catalog and would do mid 12's in the Qtr mile at 110 MPH. Awesome burnouts!
• Dana 4:10 w/Smith Bros axles
• Fairbanks Racing A-727B auto trans w/ 4,200 stall speed converter and special valve body for manual shifting the trans
• Fairbanks Trans oil cooler
• B&M Slick shift trans oil
• B&M Starshifter with front brake line lock adapted
• 383HP bored 60 over with 11:50 to 1 pistons with chrome rings and DC Heavy Duty Connecting Rods (ate 440's and 428 SCJ's and 396 Chevys). The motor would really rap out - serious upper end to it.
• Direct Connection Racer Brown cam 500 lift 302 duration
• Direct Connection Aluminum Big Valve racing heads with high ratio Titanium Rockers and push rods
• Hooker Large tube headers
• 2 1/2" diam custom exhaust piping w/cross pipe and Walker Redline Z mufflers (bad ass drag car sound, ca thump, ca thump at idle)
• Lakewood traction bars
• Mallory High Energy Racing Igintion system
• 440 Commando radiator
• Aluminum Water pump housing
• Weiand Aluminum intake manifold with Carter 750 CFM Carb vac secondaires
• Moroso Deep sump high capacity oil pan, Moroso High volume oil pump/pick up and windage tray
A lot of people thought my car had a stick, because I had special valve body in the trans that let me shift thru the gears like a stick. This thing did awesome burnouts and had tons of torque!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/RunnR1.jpg
My 3rd ride... '67 VW Microbus it's parked next to the Runner (AKA: party bus and Mobile Tool Unit)1600cc Built from a JC Whitney catalog 20MPG HWY. $500 total invested in it! My parts hauler for my Runner when I rebuilt it to Race and hauled all my dorm freinds car parts in it too!
4th ride was a '70 VW Beetle I bought to drive across the USA from ND to Calif and back. Nothing special just stock 1600 with a Holley 2 Barrel carb and header. Was lowered to be a Cal Looker. Got 32 MPG on HWy.
5th car was a '83 GTI which I still have today. Was stripped to bare metal a few years ago at a Street Rod Shop and received a full repaint in stock Royal Red and a shot of clear coat ($3,000 paint job). All seals were replaced and pinstripping too.
has the following in it:
• Techtonics 1960cc Torque Monster Motor Hand built by Collin my good friend who does the R&D for Techtonics Tuning (we go long back to '88 or so).
• Welded Intake manifold and port matched Neuspeed Large throttle body(NO adapter plates here boys)
• Fed Amsoil since break in
• VW Motorsport 4:25 ring and pinion in stock 5 speed trans with Quaiffe diff and .80 5th gear
• Sachs sport 210 clutch and press plate w/light weight flywheel
• Techtonics short throw shifter kit and Euro Golf Ball
• Techtonics Euro exhaust manifold port matched to techtonics twin down pipe to full stainless 2" exhaust.
• Euro "N" grind cam (solid not hyd)
• High lift valve springs
• Formula one oil cooler w/thermo plate
• Heavy duty CV joints
• Braided brake lines throughout
• Scirrocco 10" ATE U-Groove vented 16v front brake discs
• VW pickup rear brake drums
• Mintex Red Box pads at all 4's
• Centra type 11 wheels on Pirelli 205VR5514 tires (yes they stil have the nubs on them too)
• H&H racing sway bar/stress bar on front lower suspension
• GMP upper stress bar
• H&H rear tubular bar and stock sway bar
• ABT rear upper stress bar
• Neuspeed Koni Sport Autocross shocks and struts
• Poly bushings in all suspension components
• "Hebb" Autocross springs 1 1/2" lower ride height
• '84 GTI Bumper brackets (these took 48 lbs off the car - old autox trick)
• Hella H4 German glass headlight buckets with high watt bulbs
• Momo Cobra steeringwheel w/ GTI horn button in center
Featured in VW trends Magazine.
Was always in top of DSP Solo II in San Fran and Fresno SCCA Clubs.
Car weighs 1960lbs.
Car will do a burnout in 3rd gear. Difficult to say since traction is a problem with this motor, but sub 14's in Qtr are very possible.
Car is a sleeper... looks stock.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/11812769-5300-02000180-.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/jpg.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/11812771-bb18-02000180-.jpg
6th car...
'70 240Z found in farmers field in Calif for $150 (was in a fire). The real 350Z!
• Porsche guards red (friend painted for me for beer and pizza and one of my fav guns)
• Corvette LT1 crate motor with Lunati cam and racing heads
• Edlebrock manifold w/Holley Projection
• Custom street rod headers
• Stock HEI Ignition
• 300ZX Brake booster and master cylinder
• Turbo 350 trans with B&M shifter and oil cooler
• Nissan Motorsports rearend with 3.20 pumpkin(had 3.55's ad all I could do is burn the tires off the car)
• Custom 2 1/2" exhaust piping w/sandwiched mufflers side-by-side out the rear tail in the stock location - very quiet!
• 9x15 Revolution wheels in back with BFG R1 tires
• 8x15 Revolutions on BFG's in front
• Nissan motorsports swaybars/stress bars
• Bilstein race coilovers throughout
• Nissan special fabed race discs and calipers at all 4's
• 1/4 roll cage and 4 point racing harness
• 280Z hood with vents
• NASCAR Aluminum Radiator
• Battery box in trunk
• Nissan Motorsports lowering springs
Pulled 12.50 at 110MPH at Sacromento Dragstrip in street mufflers with street BFG's. 0-60 in under 5! It would actually brake as fast as it accellerated. It would place your eyeballs in the back of your head under acceleration and pull your heart out when braking - just (f)ucking awesome! One on the fastest cars I have ever built or driven and still be street legal.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zsides.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Z.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zhoodinside.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/350Zinside.jpg
7th vehicle was an old Datsun pickup that I traded for a '81 VW pickup (8th vehicle) and made into a GTI pickup when I lived in Merced Calif for 6yrs...
• '85 GLI motor with knock sensor ignition
• Shrick 268 degree Hyd cam and Serious port and polish head job by Collin at Techtonics Tuning
• Fed Amsoil since break in
• European oil cooler housing and sandwichplate w/front mount oil cooler
• Huge COPPER old style radiator (the key to keeping the old A1/MK1 cooler)
• Lower rate fan thermo switch. lower rate thermostat too.
• '83 GTi trans w/.75 5th
• Sachs sport clutch and 190 press plate
• Techtonics Short throw shift kit and Euro Golf Ball
• H&H upper stress bar
• H&H lower stress bar/swaybar
• H&H rear lower stress bar with short lever arms
• Bilstien Sport shocks/struts
• Braided brake lines throughout
• GTi front ATE U-Groove discs with Mintex Red box pads at all 4's
• Hella H4 headlight buckets with high watt light bulb
• GTi front grille
• GTI wheel well arches at all 4's
• GTI front chin spoiler
• Euro Rabbit front bumper
• BBS RA wheels 14x6" on yokos
• '84 GTI Midnight Blue dash, console, instrumentation, seats, carpet
• '84 GTI A.C. system
• Techtonics Euro exhaust manifold and downpipe to 2" exhaust and piping
• Diesel Motor mounts throughout
This baby ate 16valve 2.0 liter VW's all day for lunch! The headwork and cam were the secret... just great work by Collin at Techtonics!
It was a flat handling truck thanks to H&H for his bars he built special for this truck!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gti_side.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gtifront0001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/gtiengine0001.jpg
>>>I still have a brand new (shortblock) 2.0 liter handbuilt GERMAN "steel crank" (not Brazil) bubble block with 11- 1's in it in a crate in my garage that Collin built for the Pickup. <<<
9th car... pristine '95 Jetta GLX Flash Red with techtonics exhaust and chip... wife rolled it six times on back counry road missing a cyotee on the road at 50 MPH :0((....
10th car '98.5 Audi A4 1.8t 5-speed sport package Quattro Casablanca White.
A SLEEPER with mudguards!!
• Amsoil since break-in
• GIAC K04 chip
• K04 turbo
• SPP Traditional FMIC
• Forge Type Piston DV
• Hella Glass Euorpean Highlight buckets with 80 watt super Bright bulbs
• Techtonics 2 1/2" Full stainless exhaust Twin Borla muffler system with dual tips
• ATE U-Groove front discs
• Zimmerman rear discs
• Mintex Red Box Pads at all 4's
• Braided brakes lines at all 4's
• Lower rate radiator thermo switch
• Lower rate thermostat
• Stock Sport wheels on Yoko AVS ES100 tires
• Bilstein shock/struts
Plus a few secret items too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Hassmeister/Audi_-_Medium0002.jpg
11th
Last but not least... the dreaded 2003 GMC Envoy with the inline 275HP six. Wife's ride for hauling our dogs around. Fed Amsoil. Got rid of my '81 pickup to get this if you can believe it.