Whats holding up the engine? the standard cross-member? I have always planed since I was 15 to do up a notchback with EFI turbo like this one day but I can't see the standard cross member body mount holding all that power. Reinforcement maybe required?
The vw beetle saw life and great success as a reliable and extremely economical car. It won the hearts of so many, being the "cute" lil car that went put put put...Then a bunch of guys got drunk and looked at their wives' cars, and said "I can make it better". Bless those men.
Daka I used to go to Calder dragway in the late 60's to see Peter Keegan's VW Powered blown gas beetle called Thunderbug which once ran at 10.3 seconds...