How To Build A Sleeper [Feature Length] Subaru Powered Beetle

10M views. Thanks everyone!

47 minutes of MCM! Christmas has come early!

Imagine pulling up to a red light, getting ready to launch, just having a night of fun. Then some old beetle pulls up and hands you the whole menu to Gapplebees

Holy shit this was 8 years ago?! Remember when this came out

Holy. This was 5 years ago

358hp at the wheels, with stock 1.5in drum brakes all around. As someone who drives and works on old air cooled Vws that is a bold move cotton

2020. Still loving this.

I’m so impressed by the original transmission!!

I watched the 🦄 this morning and had to come and watch this again.

Smart to use a Subaru engine for it to be a sleeper, you'll even fool VW guys because it'll still be leaking oil

I was waiting for the transmission to blowup.

7 years later and it’s still my favorite one

Having driven a 1974 Type II Beetle with a stock 1.6L dual port 4 with 54hp what I wouldn't have given to have an extra 50hp. Drove that Bug for 8 years through high-school and undergraduate school. Every Sunday night through ski season three of us piled in, ski's on the rack and head up to Mt Hood on HWY 30, east of Portland, Oregon. From Zig-Zag on we were in 3rd gear red lined at 42mph all the way, and down to 2nd gear if we were going to Timberline Lodge. Carried chains, tow strap, etc but never chained up in 7 years. It wasn't the fastest, but it was reliable and never let us down. Best thing I ever did was to put Bilstein shocks all the way around with radials. It came with bias-ply tires originally, and put an aftermarket disc brake kit on it. It was my daily driver so I kept it fairly stock. But the brakes, shocks and tires were a huge improvement. I remember doing a total brake job with everything replaced for $86

Oh god, woke up to see both MCM and Haggard have uploaded a video. Good morning!

This is late but, we should all appreciate that a grown ass man jumped on Mike and he stood there like nothing happened. What a fuckin unit.

2021 and its still awesome

been watching MCM for about 12 years now and wanted to dive back into the archives. the EJ25 swapped beetle has always been a dream build for me so I decided to rewatch this video to re ignite the excitement for me to get my hands dirty and jump into this build myself. speaking of dream builds I have always wanted to do an EJ25 inside of an old 1967 Volo 122s amazon, the car was Volvos introduction into rally and it is a mad little car, and it is an absolutely beautiful car, and I highly recommend you looking into getting your hands on one for some future content. I love this channel and will support this channel as long as you guys are making videos. this videos at 11M views, 154K likes, 20.8K comments. good on you guys!

42:50 the aero force on the side mirror physically pushes the mirror in.

One thing you DID forget hahaha - "With GREAT power comes BRAKE responsibility!" ... But.. This is the second time I've watched this episode (first time when you did it, and now in March 2022) and STILL LOVING IT!!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏 😎🇬🇧

2021 anybody?