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

I’m so impressed by the original transmission!!

2020. Still loving this.

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

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

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

On stock brakes?! With over 10x the original power?! Bravo on everything else.

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

2021 and its still awesome

Holy. This was 5 years ago

I was waiting for the transmission to blowup.

For those of us still using Imperial British measurements here in the USA and UK, that 267kw = 358hp! A freaking BEAST!

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!

I liked this video over 6 years ago. And just refound it after taking a new interest in bugs again 😂 you guys rock.

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

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.

Here in 2023 An absolute brilliant build 👏 🔥 Well done gents

Back again for some nostalgia. Moogs music is always awesome.

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

It's hilarious when it starts the first time n their jumping around but the guys in the shop are kinda jus like yeah it runs

I made a sleeper once. I started with a Toyota Celica, bone stock. Then I put my cat in his carrier, put the carrier across the passenger seat, then drove seven hours to Bozeman. Every time I glanced in on him he was racked out asleep. People had no idea what kind of sleeper they were dealing with!

That rear radiator install must have been a breeze. Marty is just radiating with puns!

I see a lot of comments on "sand bagging" etc, and I don't think so at all. A 1200 pound car with 350 HP is going to accelerate really really fast, even with the really LONG 3rd/4th gear of the Super Beetle transmission. It's power to weight ratio, kids. It's why a 700 HP Hellcat only runs 11s but a little front wheel drive Honda Civic with 700 HP runs 9s.

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!!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏 😎🇬🇧

So sick. And mad props to the guys who made this happen with the custom work.

All that power and no brakes.

I watched because in 1969 I put a Buick V6 in the back of my '59 bug, L6-15 tires on the back, 25 feet of 1 1/2" radiator hose and 5 gallons of antifreeze. A Lark radiator cut into the front. It did 120mph in the quarter. I rebuilt the original tranny 4 times, every time I missed the 2nd-to-3rd shift it would weld the gears into 4th gear. I drove it close to 30,000 miles before moving on.

7 years later and it’s still my favorite one

I recommend tightening wheels, Clutch etc. crosswise, to avoid tensions. I'm not good in explaining in english, I'm working in a german mechanical enigneering company, where we learned how it's done perfectly. Love you guys!

Thanks for the 5,000,000 Views. We think it's time for another sleeper project...

I jizzed my pants when I saw the notification that Mighty Car Mods uploaded a new video

Sooo... KZfaq randomly suggests i watch this eight year old video, and 47 minutes later I'm on the Mighty Car Mods shop ordering the See You At The End MP3? Crazy times! Great video, and great music!

Was staring at my signed Miss Daisy poster and had to give this video another watch. Forever my favorite build and car!

10x the power... no brake upgrade.. love it

So this is Supras inline6 that youtube experts were hearing in the trailer?

You can always make something go if you chuck enough cash at it. Making it stop is also a good idea and beetle brakes were only JUST enough at 30 horse 🙂

This was an excellent video and being a beetle modder myself I love how this transplant was specifically engineered; air to water cooler, rear radiator, etc. Absolutely tip top 👏👏

You know whats crazier? They left the 40 year old drum brakes on.

Johnny Sins is a mechanic too? What an amazing man!

I had a yellow bug just like this one. It was old, rusty, holes everywhere. I was so happy to see your new engine fly down the racetrack.

They didn't show times because they sand-bagged both the New Beetle and the Silvia to accent just how good the yellow Beetle is. Which, honestly, they didn't need to do. For those of us that 1/4-mile drag, you recognize that those gaps were WAY, WAY to distant between those vehicles to have been a REAL race. Especially with the Silvia.

267 kilowatts is 358 horsepower....for those that don`t know.

As somebody who does pc case modding, and has done similar things to this but with computers, this show really speaks to me, I don't understand all of the more technical stuff but it's really amazing how similar the spirit and obvious love of what you do is to the pc and case modding community.

My brother was racing his Kawasaki 1100 with nitrous at New England Dragway (north of Boston), pitted against a v-8 powered bug which lost steering control at 130MPH when his car lifted its nose like yours. The bug driver suddenly swerved all the way into my brother's lane, missing him by inches. The bug pilot was sent home and my brother received a nice nitrous boost of adrenaline.

I would have added two lightweight, chromed, stock-looking, dummy tailpipes that bolt on under the back end of the car to really sell the notion that IT IS a stock VW Bug...because when one builds a serious sleeper street car, one cannot go TOO far. ;)

3:33 Where everyone in the world except UK and Australia people had an heart attack...

Supergramps vs Beetle! C'mon!

These are literally thrown away in my country...should pick up one and build it. Always loved them

Watching in 2021 and the handshakes, hugs and high fives look so foreign now. ‘Twas a happier time…

while im watching this im wondering how the hell that gearbox is gonna handle 10x the power

being American the part where you were looking at an extra steering wheel freaked me out momentarily. I thought the wheel came off for a second.

That bug just looks pretty normal to me, doesn't seem enraged at all... 😉 To anybody curious, 268 KW = about 350 brake horse power. Good job. If you put some more work into the front wheels, frame, balance of the car, etc., you can get some more stability and a couple more KPH out of that thing. There's no reason that shouldn't be a 10 sec car. Just get that junk Trans unit out of there and build something to handle what "The Rock's" got cookin'!!! I know you spent a stupid amount of money building that car but, I'm quite certain you can make it all back, a couple hundred at a time on the local street races. 😀 I'm a Mopar, muscle car man, myself but, that makes me want to build another bug. When I was a kid, if we wanted a sleeper we took something like a Dodge Dart, pulled out the 6cyl (or 318, if it was "peppy") and pulled a hemi and adjoined 1 tonn 4spd out of some old work truck, went through the engine and viola, you had a sleeper. There were plenty old road cars with 440s, 383, etc. to be had for a few hundred ucks. Just yank the motor and stuff it in an old shitbox (with some work put into it, of course) and you were off to the races. Thank the EPA for screwing up cars as we know it. Even today's big horse power cars have to have so many restrictions and qualifications that they cost 70 grand. It's not just an engine and some steel that cost all that, it's figuring out how to do it and still meet smog and MPG ratings that takes all the brains, people's and computer's, that's the issue. And the epa has done more harm that good over the years, get rid of them and start over. We'd all be better off... And I had a '75 Super Beatle, the same, exact yellow colour with fuel injection and a 5spd that would haul ass. 😆 The big thing in my time was to pull the engine and shove a juiced up Porche engine in it. Then you're long gone. My only problem with it was that I'm so big that when I had my winter coat on, I couldn't shut the door because my shoulders were to wide. 😆 🤣

2021. Still loving this❤️🤗

267kw is 358hp

That 267.4KW is 358.5WHP!

Nice! Really enjoyed seeing ALL of the work going into that mod. Most car mod shows DONT show what you guys did.. And again..you make it look like fun. Ive gotta agree..you are now the BEST car mod show on the net! ...(and Ive watched plenty!)....

7:05 i still love it after 7 years

Beetle vs Supergramps?! Or is gramps just too good.

I bought a bug & while cleaning it up when I got home, I found half an ounce of weed under the back seat. Needless to say, not much got done on the bug the rest of that day.

2021 anybody?

you guys nailed the most important part of a sleeper that all the other channels get wrong dont put fucking DRAG SLICKS on it then say "oh its a sleeper" just because it looks remotely stock

Not gonna lie, I was hoping to see a Supra or Skyline, I wasn't expecting it to be a sleeper or this even, but you guys really REALLY impressed me with this one! Great work :)

No Super Beetle Vs Super Gramps? :o

Still one of my favourite episodes and the intro music is hectic!

This is my 5th time watching it and I’m still in love with it, can’t wait to see more of these crazy mad projects 🤘🏻2022

freaking sick build, who else is watching this during quarantine lmao

42:50 You can see mirror bending.

The sound track for this era of mightycarmods was surreal 🤙🏼🤙🏼 just straight out bangers!

I'm watching this in 2021 but I love how you 2 went from some lads in your garage doing silly and fun mods to knowing all these people and doing some awesome builds 👌

I really wish you showed the official track times...

There is no doubt that awesome bald headed VW mechanic is a Replicant from the Blade Runner Universe.

I'm 7 years late to this video but what a mad vid!!! I really hope you still have this beetle, it would be great to see it on a new video. Incredible

Well I've been putting it off for a couple of years, but tonight I watched the video and have to say. What a result. Congrats to all involved.

Im from America, and when I saw Marty holding the steering wheel at 3:33 I thought it just came off the rack and he was just casually putting it out of sight lol.

Half way through and I'm wondering how long that poor little VW gearbox lasted.

I'm sad this car doesn't exist anymore. This is one of my favorite builds by far.

Dude I watched the Cresta episode... But this one is frigging awesome...how it just launched soft and walked away...made me smile!!!

Beetle v Supergramps you know it needs to happen

RELEASED ON MY 17TH BDAY AND MY DAD JUST GOT ME MY FIRST FUCKING CAR OMG IM SO HAPPY I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH (its a 1.2 corsa sxi silver , 2005 model)

Lol, watching this video again years later and I realize that that's actually a nice beetle you guys were able to find. I can't help but think of all the purists really upset rn 😂😂 Great video guys :) 🇿🇦

Such an awesome build, congrats guys. Your content is amazing and worth 10M views. We love watching at the Kelford Cams team. heaps of fun

1:16 A rare sight of Moog without a hat.. Just realised i haven't seen dudes hair since Martys driveway days

Title should be: "How professional specialists build a sleeper for two KZfaqrs".

just came back to chek this video out again

This is one of my all-time favorite builds . Great work to all involved :)

Could you imagine taking this into a workshop for a service? the lads look at it knowing full well its a bug, but when they go to change the filters, only to find a Subaru engine, the fuckers would flip hard

Today I learned Mr. Clean is a terrifying Aussie.

The guy didn’t even try to race the beetle it’s like no logic there is no backlash or anything no excitement from the other guy but either way I love the build

I hadn't seen this before, so I thought it was NOW under Covid-19. But watching it - clearly it wasn't. It is amazing how those things have changed. Great to see you both building something crazy again.

42:50 the driver side mirror starts folding in from the speed lol

Why are so many people now hating on this? It’s a fast beetle. Let it be.

This will always be my favorite mightycarmods video i always comeback to watch again and again ✌️

this was the first mcm i ever watched and ive been hooked since

Wait you didn't build the brakes? 😂 That's not a good idea...

The power to weight ratio on that car has to be insane...

Lets just appreciate this is nearly 500hp ... in a beetle

I have watched this video so many times throughout the years👌