Sandrail.

I never drove it with the 1200 single port.

I had no interest in it, but because it was freshly rebuilt it was good trading material.

I bought another very cheap none running sandrail ( $350, if I remember correctly), Which gave me a 2 litre Pinto and a adapterplate + flywheel.

The transmission was busted, and I sold the engineless frame.




The engine was stock, but it came with a very rare Mickey Thompson cam cover.

I built it into this.






And stuck it into the rail.

The 091 side shift box is a lot cheaper than a front shift one, because the shift mechanism is a lot harder to solve.

There are some aftermarket solutions out there, but they look kind of Rube Goldberg overcomplicated to me, most ( or all ) involve sliding rods in bearings ( probably not good in a dirty & sandy environment ), and way too expensive for what they are.

So I made my own.

I built it off the stock shifter, so the reverse lockout still works as it should.

And the rest is done with just a couple of heimjoints and a connector to the shifter that I made out of a steering U-joint.

( in other words, stuff that I had laying around )




























It was cheap to build and works great ( a lot more accurate and direct that a regular nose shift VW box )

I put lights and a windshield on it, which made it streetlegal here in Arizona.

grizz, you are correct.

Its off my brothers Kawasaki.

Because I can never leave well enough alone, I built a supercharger setup for it.




Which was a big disappointment, I suspect there is a internal problem with the blower ( a swapmeet find ) or the blow off valve.

It would backfire as soon as you'd blip the throttle and build boost.

And I was not able to fix it.

But I wasn't happy with that either, so I made my own setup with the Ak Miller exhaust manifold, a turbo off a 2.3 SVO Ford, an intake manifold that I adapted from a racing intake meant for a 1600 Kent, feeding into a Maserati pressure box and a Maserati Carb, through a Audi intercooler.

Which is great because I also use the sandrail to pick up and move engines.









But also, when I have this completely dialed in, I plan to copy it on the BMW Bike engine in the Fiat 500 spaceframe racer...
( but with added Water/Methanol injection to control knock )

I almost forgot another thing I did on my rail.

I needed a place for my switches, idiot lights, starter key, and turn signal switch.

I had an old EMPI VW valve cover that I sandblasted to get it clean.






I milled some holes in it.




So I could weld in a couple of aluminum slugs I made on my lathe.









That gave me a place for the key switch and the horn button.

I then drilled a couple of holes for the idiot lights and the switches.

And a slot for the turnsignal switch.




























And mounted to the rail...

Thank you grizz.