Here is my stock 1980 vw rabbit aptly named Colonel Mustard.
I purchased this in March 2004 with 37,000 miles and it and it now has 49,000.

No much has been done to it. Its tranny was shot when I purchased it and the vacuum lines had become brittle with age.
The only other think to notice is the upgraded rims. I had stock before with steel hubcaps that kept falling off. These are just stock rims off a later model jetta. I wanted to keep the stock look and these are a composite rim so they are quite a bit lighter than the previous ones.

Well, its been a while since I updated this page. I have recently painted the rims white because the dirt road I live on had chipped the previous job pretty bad. I also added the metal scratch guards underneith the front door handles.

If you happen to have a second pair you can sell me please email me!!

Lastly, you can see what I've been working on lately, the barn I made over the summer, the deck is almost complete, and the gazebo (spelled right?) just needs its roof.




Yup, that's my brother Gabriel in the back there!

Well, I left it for about a month and felt bad so I have done some more work on it.

First off, I purchased a car bra to protect it from any further rock chips. It doesn't look great but, I certainly doesn't look terrible.


I didn't feel like that was enough so I purchased a new engine as well. It should be installed in about a month and a half. It is getting a 1.8 8v from a '85 Rabbit GTI. The engine will give out 90HP. However I decided that that simply wasn't enough so while the engine was out I decided to do a few things to it. It is in the shop right now getting port and polished. Then it will get a camshaft from either a 1.6 or 1.7 8v. This means I will be getting 100+ HP!! ( I know, I know, this isn't really much for a car but, you've got to remember that this car only weights 1800 pounds.) The new golf-four door comes with about 115hp and it weighs 2995 pounds just for comparison. This rabbit ought to really move once I have this installed. I'll be sure to post some pictures as soon as I get it installed.

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The engine is in!!!! It feels soooo much more powerful. The total list of engine mods now are:

--- 1.8 engine from '85 Scirrocco with 100,000 miles (the engine
is now officially older that the chassis).

--- Port and Polish thanks to Quinn at All European in Kent WA

--- camshaft from a 1.6 liter engine (less smog requirements
make this a little sportier cam.

--- removal of alot at unnessesary thing in the engine bay such
as vacuum booster, intake thermostat and hosing...a bunch
of other small stuff.

So now I have about 100 to 110 hp at the crank! Its quite the upgrade from my previous 76hp.

I'll be adding some pictures in a short while.

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So I havn't updated this page in a while. Not much else done to the Rabbit. Went on a few drives. Replaces a wheel bearing and got it running extremely smoothly and reliably. On one of the drives I had Joel (Rootrider) taking pictures and they are by far the best I've had. Here they are! What do you think.

Well. Did a dyno run today. Didn't do all that bad. Made 84.01 hp and 95.1 torqueat the wheels. I don't know what that translates to the crank but if it is the standard 20% loss to the drivetrain then I'm making about 100hp at the crank. Just about what I thought.

Anyway, I'll be recieving and installing a ported intake manifold shortly so I'll install that and dyno it again. Then I'll install that turbo and dyno it again! Should be quite a blast.

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nothing new...so a few pictures