SLEEPER BUG: 517 WHP Subaru-powered 1973 VW Super Beetle | Nicole Johnson's Detour EP1
Would you ever guess this cute little VW bug produces 517 horsepower at the wheels and screams like a Formula 1 race car? Nicole Johnson goes for a wild ride in the ultimate Sleeper Bug, a Subaru WRX-powered 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle that you’d swear was bone stock. But that’s the whole point…
Designed, built and owned by OG13 King of the Hammers winner John Reynolds. seworld.info
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Definitely dad taking the daughter to teach her how to drive a stick shift vibe...
who on earth did the subtitling? did he/she/it even speak German?
This car is trying to kill it's passengers, it's perfect.
Nothing new... Nothing special just nothing. He does not race for tags... so big effing deal. I raced for Tags in my 59 Beetle with a Porche Engine in mine.
Yeah, this brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, STAY IN YOUR LANE!
That Woman Pi**ed me Off. She Didn't listen to him when he said take it Easy on the gas pedal and she REFUSED to follow his instructions. I would have made her get out and NOT let her Drive again. Ooo that makes me mad!!
My 5.0 had a BERT dogbox and let me tell you its not much fun to cruise with let alone daily. They're intended for racing meaning slower speeds and rpms make it harder to shift but they'll take abuse. Trying to find the sweet spot or shifting slowly will almost always result in grinding, meaning every shift it needs to be thrown into gear like you mean business. Machines like this were built for abuse the harder you drive them the smoother they run
My one and only speeding ticket was in a 71' super beetle going about 110 mph. ( 40 yrs ago! )
18:33 priceless
Nice!
Grind it till ya kind find it 😆
Bet she left a wet spot on his seat
car could use stiffer springs in the rear and a strain gauge for the shifter that way he can cut the timing during the shift and not grind the gears.
Had a '66 VW Beetle once... The only way you'd get it up to 110 is if you drove it off a cliff. ...a VERY tall cliff. ( It topped out at 70mph, downhill, and with a good tailwind. )
Very cool. A perfect example of when time & money are no object
whats sad is he is scared of his own car lol
Waaaaaaay Koo!!
Eh it's been done
I remember an EMPI powered bug with 250hp that would pull the front wheels off the ground, I think this guy will never experience this car at 10/10, you could see it in his face.
what a babe
Whoa whoa!
When you realize this is Herbie but in another dimension where it autopilots, going against the DeLorean, if only you could do some modifications, imagine seeing the classic race against those two.
I am actually working on a mk1 vw rabbit I am doing a awd conversation on it and putting in a 1.8t engine which will eventually make just over 300hp (it would be capable of much higher but I'm not going to tune it for much more than that to keep it controllable on a racetrack) and weigh only about 2000lbs. It is also modified to have 4 corner independent suspension. I'm not done with it yet but I should be able to drive it very soon seeing as I just have some minor wiring and plumbing to do yet. Although it will only be at 150hp for now which is stock for this engine I will be able to make sure everything else is solid and dialed in before I throw a ton of power at it.
Hate hearing gears grinding, my sister drives like a champ.
Annoyingly American
That is way cool and I never want to drive it. Thank you and goodnight!
She’s annoying!
Why the f I let you drive 🤡🤡🤡🌺🌺🌺
Nicole is a keeper, solid lady open to new adventures but down to earth. Nicole, let him drive; he scares himself enough!
ultimate sleeper
Is she annoying?
INCREADIBLE !! I drove my sister's '73 "Super Beetle" back in the early eighties, and thought, "Nice", "fun-ish".... My car was a big block IROC 4speed Comaro. And very hot. This is the ultimate "sleeper" ! He should go after the '502' in Oaklahoma.
Syncromesh gears, what synchromesh???
Oooh that's "Herbie" without the "53" on the hood 😉
Too much hair touching!
NFS Heat vibes
Nah, that's not that impressive. Try this seworld.info/will/epCrsNmcqX5qqIE/video. Tesla powered Beetle. Blows this Beetle out of the water.
13:28 - Seeing how violently the thing pulls and twists on boost, and hearing her scream "HOLY CRAP!" was worth it alone 🤣🤣 and the camera doesn't even do it justice- once I hear the sound though, it's like I can process what the camera isn't entirely capturing hahaha! 🤘😆 And she's such a goofball and so fun- I love how second time she stops and goes through the gears, she's got a feel for it and he's still trying tell her how to shift it, then puts a LITTLE mustard behind it and he gets spooked. 😂😂 Yeah, duh it's a beast! What'd he expect- for her to idle it through all the gears? C'mon!😆😆 This thing is badass. I'd LOVE a sleeper like this, but I'm addicted to kustomizing and visually standing out...😕 Hmmm...🤔(*excuse to nitrous my clapped-out daily Tahoe...?*)
I'd rather just have the girl
Take the girl keep the car
So originally was a 1302s
Man I thought she needs practice driving a stick! Lol okay she cute enough for me to drive around! Not ride with!
when i was in high school back in the late 70's i drove a bug to school i forget what year it was late 60's perhaps. but winter in northwest Pennsylvania was a treat the heater would scorch you pant legs and you employed a ice scraper every few seconds on the flat windshield because it would frost up and it had no real defroster. i remember it fondly.
She needs to lay off the coffee 😉🤘🏼
First time on your channel and I love the bug and your vibes.. keep smiling 😁😁
I own a 1973 superbeetle. and this makes me sad, because mine doesn't even have spark.
Super Beatles are super ugly. Should have used pre 69. 🤮
Never hand a chimp a gun.
When she said, "your gonna have to show me how to drive it. The gears and everything..." John was like, "WTF?" "I do?" 😂😂😂
Reading the title i thought he put a sleeper quarters in his bug.
She is so pretty; and seems to be confused with a stick shift. Pretty girl though.
Given her off-road motorsport credentials I'm pretty sure she'd be able to operate a "normal" standard shift gearbox. She had never used a gearbox without synchros though. I've driven standard shift cars for 23 years now but it sounds like I'd probably have to acclimate to this one just as she did.
Love the bug .! Love the upgrades,and the wastegate stealth pipes!!
For someone who had a very little understanding about what he is saying, she interrupts him a lot. Mmmhm, uhuh, yep.
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Nicole your the best.... !
Guy in USNY has a Beetle with close to 800 H/P He was smoking way more H/P cars at the 1/8th mile in my home town. That thing was so quick it was over before the V8 got rolling.
Nice build. But that tiny twin exhaust is holding that bug back from really flying. 💯
Those are used for turbo pop-off, overpressure. The real exhaust outlet is hidden under the car)
C'mon Nicole, just manhandle it and push it in! 😉🤣
I know which bug I would take home
So much money spent to prove such a tiny penis ....
Would LOVE to give this little lovebug a spin here in Germany, but I guess it would never pass safety regulations. About the "110mph wow", that is my cruising speed driving home =P
guess you are normally crusing at a bit wider and straighter road at 110 than this mountain road we see here)
The owner's " ass on the hands" was the best part...hahaha.... Please don't fuck up my car...pleaseeee...rsrsrs
Why would anyone do that to a perfectly fine VW Beatle, wait, Americans...
Love the car!!!😍 Cringe the interview 😬
VW Käfer!!!✌😘❤👍
The engine sounds not like an original beetle
she slams the door then asked if he heard that. What a psycho!
LOL....You are kidding...right?
too bad it's not amphibious like the original ;) :-S
Fun video but the funniest thing was... after being jammed together in a VW bug for a day, yelling and laughing and talking at each other (without masks) ... they do an elbow bump to maintain social distancing and avoid spreading the CCP virus (or the deadlier, more contagious mutation that has become so prevalent in California - www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous)
MY GOD LET HER DRIVE THE FKN THING. I don't think ive seen a more paranoid car owner on SEworld.
Man' he's miserable .... proof that owning stuff isn't whats important. Turned it off, couldnt watch anymore.
This Nicole girl feels like she's from the 70s :o
Bed Bug.
Waste gate pea shooters are brilliant. My favorite part of the whole build.
He's driving, but when he gets on it he looks as scared as she does.
and they called the corvair unsafe at any speed..
noob here. What's the "pffft" sound during accelerations?
His look when she can't find the next gear!!!! LMAO!!!!
This gearbox makes the car sound like a very old bus :-D
To that dude in the add no one cares how much you made last month we ain’t tryna buy! The girl in this vid is beautiful... 🙌🏾
This was utter joy & bliss!
My friend had a 1915cc and it was a beast, did wheelies in 3 gears. This thing must be insane. That trans looks fun to drive
Really needs UEL headers
Great video! Entertaining, informative and with high production values. A breath of fresh air in the male dominated automotive “influencer” world 👍Subscribed!
This is interesting, but my best friend in high school in 1979-1980 got a 1974-75 VW baja bug with a V-8 in it. Baja bug.
I don’t understand: where’s the bed?
shawty
I like you, very few women get cars. That bug remedies me of my 74 Vega with a rebuilt 350 cops never caught me!
Even he doesnt have a clue how to drive a dog box.
I wanna build two more Bugs in my Lifetime. A bad-ass, heavy-duty Baja...and a chop-topped, slammed-on-the-ground, early 60's Bug with a 2,5 liter Subaru (ALMOST thought about using a 2,1 liter Vanagon motor...but I've had to replace heads on WAY too many of those things)(though that really wouldn't be a BAD engine...if you could figure out how to stop the head gaskets from rotting away) and a 5-speed. Four-wheel discs. R&P steering. Make it look like an early 60's hotrod (black satin paint with flames, or scallops) and old Craiger 5-spoke mags (I HAVE a set of American Racing 5-spokes in that same style)(No Bug to attach them to, however).
0 to 60 ?
Saw it measured to 2.8s in another video, on John Reynolds channel
Don't ask a car guy with a fast car 4 a ride then tell him to slow down !!! Funny !!!
Is a Subaru engine cheaper than a Porsche engine?
Very cool.... But what I want to know is...how the hell did he swap the gearbox from behind the engine to in front? At first, I was wondering how he swapped the 'Ru gearbox from back to forward. Wasn't until later that I realized he's running some kind of aftermarket 'box (non-synchro at that!). When imagining building this kind of gettup (I want to build a Bug with a 2,5 liter 'Ru engine and 5-speed box)... I'd look at scoring a Porsche 5-speed to adapt the 'Ru to. The other thought would be an aftermarket gearbox (if they are still available) that is designed for sandrail use (but NOT a non-synchro unit like he's using)...though that probably wouldn't work very well for flying down the freeway. Maybe great for drag racing! (The sandrail gearbox, that is) Not so much for daily driving.
Not a car guy per se...but can appreciate the details here. Enjoyed this vid a lot! LOL dad attitude, daughter who's already there ;-)
Yep they sold my '69 with an overbored 1800 and dual Weber's with 60s on the back while I was at the bank getting the money. I was !!furious!! It was all municipal silver colored inside. Ya know, With the toxic silver paint! Well anyway it's just as well because I'd be long dead now. LONG time dead. Super long time.
Blasphemous! Simply blasphemous. One only has to look at the latest 911 GT3 RS to see what has grown from Herr Doktor Ferdinand Porsche's brainchild. Bastardizing fine German engineering to to accept a Japanese engine is akin to dumping a Chevrolet 350 in a a Ferrari 250!
I would love a review by Smoking Tire on this creation..
This bug should be called "Beetlejuice"... This thing is a monster and a death trap at the same time...
rain man looked upset that his transmission needed to be rebuilt
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