FOTM: March '09 *DavidKvapilPhoto*

[InSepsis]

Well guys, it's another month and time to introduce our newest Featured Member of the month. Please read through this and leave him some love and praise for everything he does and for all the help he provides in our community...

Big congrats to this month's feature...
DavidKvapilPhoto


http://garage208.com/fotm/march2009/1.jpg

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Name: David Kvapil
Age: 22
Fave Restaurant: Shige's Japanese Cuisine
Fave Music: Punk/Ska
Something Most people don’t know: I love being in the outdoors; camping, hiking, backpacking, fishing, pretty much anything in the outdoors, especially photography.
Turn Ons: Pain (yep, I'm one of those people, but not like the super fucked up bondage shit)
What got you into the car scene: My dad always had cool cars, including an old Mazerati Biturbo (the car I learned to drive in) and a pretty well modded E36 M3. In high school, after a little incident I had in my mom's car, he made me buy my first car (much to my disagreeement at the time, a 1984 Rabbit GTI). That car ended up sparking my passion for Dubs, and since then I have owned 7 VW's and my Audi.



About Me: My name is David Frank Kvapil. I grew up right here in Boise, spending most of that time playing soccer and hockey. I had hoped, and was working toward having a career playing hockey, but that was crushed by a car accident in 2005. My parents are Czech, and they defected here to the US back in 1985 so that they could have a good life for their kids. I enjoy playing hockey, autocrossing, and photography. Not really anything else cool about me.




Story About the Cars: I bought the Scirocco in June of 2007 specifically to build it into an autocross car. I was looking for the lightest watercooled VW, and it turned out to be the 1975-77 Scirocco, so I began looking for one. It turned out that a friend of mine had pulled the car out of some farmer's field in Marsing, and he was going to just get it running and use it as a daily. He didn't have the money or time for it, so I bought it from him and spent the next year restoring it and building it up into what it is today. The Audi was bought last October from a friend of mine. No real special story about it, just had always like the early S4's, and when he told me he was selling it, I sold my Jetta and bought it from him.



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Mod List:
'77 Scirocco



Full bare shell resoration and respray done by me (that's why it looks like shit)
Painted VW code L61H (Lofoten Green)
-Motor
9A code 2.0L 16v
Bored to 83.5mm (~2.05L) with JE 9:1 compression pistons
Eagle forged connecting rods
Audi RS2 race spec main and rod bearings
ARP main, rod and head bolts
Fully balanced bottom end
Ported and polished head
Port matched intake and exhaust manifolds
Stock cams, will be replaced with Autotech sport cams soon
Log turbo manifold
Garret T3 60trim turbo
2.5" turbo back
Ebay intercooler
Forge BOV
450cc Siemens/Deka injectors
Megasquirt-n-spark standalone management (built, wired and tuned by me)
Spec stage 3 clutch (sucks, getting replaced as soon as possible)
-Suspension
(front)
MK2 front strut housings, shortened 1.75" with mk1 mounts welded on
Koni double adjustable struts, custom valved
Ground control sleeves
425 lb/in springs
Neuspeed 25mm sway bar
Offset delrin control arm bushings for max caster
(rear)
Koni single adjustable shocks, custom valved
Ground control sleeves
650 lb/in springs
No sway bar
Poly bushings
-Wheels/tires
street
15x7 et18 2-piece Gotti 150's (possibly the only set in existence in this size, have now been sold)
225/45-15 Nitto NT-01
race
13x8 Keizer aluminum race wheels (less than 8lbs/each)
215/50-13 Kumho V710's
-Interior
Corbeau race seats on custom built brackets
Old school white Grant wheel (from the late '80's)
Autometer Boost, EGT, air/fuel gauges
VDO Oil pressure/temp gauges
Otherwise all stock and rockin from the '70's

'93 Audi S4


202k miles
~50k on a fresh longblock from Audi
MTM Stage 1+ chip (22-25psi, ~280bhp, 310 ft/lb torque)
H&R sport springs + Bilstein sport shocks


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[Catra]

Sweet rides!

[Conan O'Brien]

Beautiful VW man. I gotta see this thing in person one of these days.

[imssux]

nice car man really clean work.

[spastik]

congrats man! def sick whip

[positivevibe]

OMG congrats ^_^

[JDMike]

Very nice.....

[BRINGTHERUCKUS]

clean ass bay, both look good, nice job mang

[Xavier]

I like the FOTM love i see here. Great cars mang.

[Monkeymilitia444]

Congrats man!! very sweet cars!!!

[goblin]

Really, really nice car. Love it. The photo's and write up are DAMN good too. Great work guys.

Kevin

[Livestrong]

Awesome! Very deserving of the title! congrats!

[CHRIFFIN]

Congrats David!!!

[Dos Plunder]

nice cars! definitly deserves fotm! great choice guys!

[cosmo105]

Definetly a cool dude and a cool car!

[Mazdaspeed]

FOTM could not have gone to a more genuine and more deserving person. Car is alright to.... lol. Nicely done Dave, one of the few VW's that actually makes my penis twitch.

[Squarl]

these are both such cool cars!!! congrats. great pick guys!!!

[SilverSubie]

Holy crap! I'd love to see this in person. Looks great. Pics looks great as usual Mirko.

[InSepsis]

Thanks and congrats to david... He definitelly desirves this...


And I got to drive both the audi and the sccirocco and I love them both...


well not so much drive as move scirocco.

[scootsrt]

I think I soiled myself. Very clean and well put together. You have very unique and nice taste. I love it.

[Billboard]

very nice; a little different; i like that... always props for skateboarding... and fucking sik wheel...

[BryceJoseph]

Congrats David. it is amazing to see where this gem of a car pops up.

cheers,
Bryce

[Grip240sx]

I love this car! Very deserving for FOTM! Congrats!

[EFSedan#6]

Cool as hell. I love the color.

[B lvl w]

Nice Pic's Mirko, and nice whip.

Did you get those control arms off?
if you need help hit me up
-Travis

[CharlieMurphy]

Congrats David! That car is sick!

Mirko, those shots are awesome!

[shenrie]

Congrats David! That car is sick!

Mirko, those shots are awesome!

Again, x2.

[Jdmitr]

Beautiful pics and way nice O school scirocco!!! I had an 87? 16v and loved it back in like '94.

[NoDestiny]

Something unique is always welcome.

[pandatrueno4ag]

great job david. i have seen this in person and its very well put together. alot of dedication.

[bcool]

We picked him on the sole fact that his car's color matches the site scheme

[Rob]

I like, different and very well done.

[daveyg]

Am I the only one that David's scirocco gives a stiffy to? I swear... If there's a name for the disorder that is, dudes who wanna bang certain cars or motorcycles, I know I have it. Jay Leno should start a rehab center for people like me to check ourselves into.

[DubstepDave]

Thanks to everyone for the awesome response. It's great to see that people appreciate the car that I have built. Come out and see it in action this year, I should be at nearly all of the autocrosses.

[spastik]

We picked him on the sole fact that his car's color matches the site scheme

lol. quick, everyone needs to repaint their cars for next month

[InSepsis]

start painting....... now!!!!

[DubstepDave]

lol. quick, everyone needs to repaint their cars for next month

Hahaha. Come on spastik, let's see your CRX in the same color as my VW. Now THAT would be dope shizz. :werd2:

[spastik]

psh, if i were painting my rex i would go for laguna seca blue

http://www.motorcities.com/media/image/640/04B9G312125801D/2002-BMW-M3-Coupe-laguna-seca-blue-D-640.jpeg

[CHRIFFIN]

MURDER IT OUT

[DubstepDave]

Meh, LSB is over rated, IMO. Yeah, it's a nice color, but I think it only works well on newer cars. Do something really truly different Brian...

[InSepsis]

I actually see it as a very vintage color and can see it looking sick on just about any car...


http://www.dtmpower.net/forum/attachments/bmw-parts-sale/35329d1203562530-1976-bmw-2002-laguna-seca-blue-bbs-wheels-recaro-seats-atlanta-ga-sm1.jpg

http://www.dtmpower.net/forum/attachments/bmw-parts-sale/35330d1203562530-1976-bmw-2002-laguna-seca-blue-bbs-wheels-recaro-seats-atlanta-ga-sm3.jpg


Anyways... everyone back on topic and giving props to david for the work he does.

[DubstepDave]

OK, now that looks sick. But it's Bavarian, not rice. :bootyshake:

I keeed, I keeed (lol @ spastik)

Thanks Mirko. Let me know when your coils come in, I'll be down for a day of installation/beer drinking and a photo sesh afterwards.

[InSepsis]

Schweeeeet... Ordering as soon as the money shows up in my account..

I am getting 450 lb for front and 500lb for rear springs on them :)

[DubstepDave]

Go stiffer. Hell, I've got stiffer on my 1800lb car...

Got 550/650 at least.

[DubstepDave]

Update on the car as it sits right now:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/3331411201_0afcd2d712_b.jpg

[InSepsis]

siiiiiick!

[Tom]

Stiffer in the rear?

[obeytheg1ant]

Your Scirocco is F'ing sick! Mad props for rollin a '77 and doing it right!

[DubstepDave]

Stiffer in the rear?

Yep, stiffer in the rear on mine. I would run 600/650 f/r with no sway bars, but I have found (and others who run mk1 VW's like me) that having stiffer than about 450 lb/in springs in the front makes it too stiff and bounce around a lot, making it handle very poorly on any surface that isn't perfectly smooth. So, we run pretty high front rates, with a very large sway bar in the front (the bar also helps to maintain camber through the turns) and very high rear spring rates with no sway bar, making the rear end act more like IRS instead of the semi-IRS trailing arm axle that the car has from the factory.

As far as Mirko's car goes, the higher rear rates will help to put down power better, and to combat nose-diving and understeer, a nice big front sway bar would be recommended. Also, the softer front springs will help to plant the front end quicker during turn-in.


Mirko, did your coils come in yet? I'm ready for an install day whenever you are (unless you've already done it).

[UWISHU1]

VERY nice vee dub man!

[Tyraid2K]

agh its so nice,

[Dos Plunder]

Saw the car at autox! It was sick as feckkkk!

Owner is kinda ghey though ;)

[DubstepDave]

lol

Thanks Kalder and Tyraid.

[beanerstyle]

That car looks mint. Awesome job David.