{"id":140675,"date":"2025-11-07T11:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=140675"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:38:42","slug":"custom-vw-thing-with-a-porsche-flat-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=140675","title":{"rendered":"Custom VW Thing with a Porsche Flat-Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ron Jones Garage<\/a> won Top 4 of Battle of the Builders at the 2025 SEMA Show with their custom 1973 VW Thing. The unique vehicle is powered by a 3.0 L Porsche flat-six stroked to 3.2 liters. It features lightweight connecting rods, titanium valve hats, custom-ground camshaft, and Motec ECU. Power is sent to all four wheels through a 996 Turbo six-speed manual transaxle and front differential. The powertrain is supported by a custom chromoly tube chassis built by Colorado Sandcars<\/a> with an offroad suspension featuring Fox double adjustable coilovers and Alcon Racing brakes. Ron Jones Garage designed and fabricated a custom metal body and sprayed it in Porsche 328 Gulf Blue paint. The finishing touch is a set of custom Curtis Speed beadlock wheels based on Fuchs wheels. You can read the project’s history along with more photos of the build process at the project page<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Ron Jones Garage won Top 4 of Battle of the Builders at the 2025 SEMA Show with their custom 1973 VW Thing. The unique vehicle is powered by a 3.0 L Porsche flat-six stroked to 3.2 liters. It features lightweight connecting rods, titanium valve hats, custom-ground camshaft, and Motec ECU. Power is sent to all… Read More »Custom VW Thing with a Porsche Flat-Six<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Custom-VW-Thing-with-a-Porsche-Flat-Six-01.jpg?fit=1440%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68955,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=68955","url_meta":{"origin":140675,"position":0},"title":"VW Bug with a Porsche Boxster Powertrain","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This custom VW Bug was built by Hybrid Auto Shop in Thailand. 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