Stock rect air cleaners like the Supers have work really well.
They're also butt-ugly and look funny. Oh, and I don't have one.
I do have an oil bath air cleaner though, and they work well for mild 1600s like the one I'm building, but they also tend to spit crap everywhere on bumpy gravel corrugated roads......which is probably 10-20% of where I drive.
So, first cut the oil bath section off, keeping the very base (it will be used as a top for the new air cleaner).
Put a hole in an old chrome air filter lid, then slide it over the centre trumpet to get the right height for whatever filter you want to run. I'm using a Unifilter, when oiled properly they last for yonks, and in all my stuff I have yet to find ANY dust at all in the inlet tracts on my bikes or my cars.
I've doubled-up the filters, so you can see how it sits inside.
In case you think it's only a piddly air filter that will be restrictive, this old air filter sat on a single Stomberg BX on top of a 1641, that pushed a '63 Baja to high-15s. I rekn that means they have enough flow!
Cool! No oil splats, good dust protection, full hot air flaps, with no intake restriction on a centremount manifold.
And it doesn't look like an upside-down toy boat.
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It's a bit ugly I guess, but hey, it's gasless MIG welding up 0.6mm, so I can live with it. The centre trumpet is still 3" long.
The base on the inside......
How the heck did you manage to weld that? Whats your secret??
Swearing.
LOTS of swearing!
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I watched a bloke repair a cracked bike clutch cover once with a Comet kit. THAT is skills, just amazing.
Step 1. Find assorted little bits of treasure. No, it's NOT scrap. 🙂
Step 2. Spend a few hours whistling away in the shed.
Step 3. HUH! I guess it works!
I thought I'd try to get the interior paint colour a bit closer to VW Off-White, so played around with a few little extra tints.
Yep, completely and utterly wrong! 😂
Looks a lot like Porsche Stone Grey though when you're next to it.
Hhmmmmm............
Oh, at least this bit went sorta according to plan I guess. 😉
I needed a new set of rockers, so I bought some brand new OEM VW "Rhino" rockers that take 9mm adjusters.
So then I thought I'd get some new OEM quality adjusters with wide feet, but without having to worry about sketchy and patchy aftermarket quality control or the horrendous cost of Porsche elephant feet.
So, drill out the 9mm adjuster threads......
Tap for the new adjusters.
Stock 8mm adjuster on the left after 86K km of good hard service.
Wide foot adjuster from a late Kombi on the right.
Big difference in contact patch for the valve tip.
It's nice to be putting in clean stuff instead of taking out greasy stuff.
Looking good,Keepem coming......Keeps me awake on night shift.
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Who here is ex-Service?
Who here knows what an "elephant" is?
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Trying to make a late-model "W" decklid......
" Trying to make a late-model "W" decklid......"
I've got to see that when it's finished!
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"The best trophies are stone chips"
1969 1500 Beetle "Otis"
2008 Golf GTI
More "W" decklid stuff. I had to do it over a couple of times due to lack of skills and technique! 😂
Here we are now, and after cleaning up with a grinder and 1/2 tub of reofil it should be ready for priming.
A panel man I am not, but hey it's good fun to try, and I can always get another decklid if I stuff it up.
I especially like the rounded shape of the decklid now, I managed to get rid of that ugly bulge these things have stock, happy with that.
Steering box, new balls and seals.
Standard Beetle brake M/C fitted into a '73 Superbug with new brake lines bent up to suit..........
I want to test the flow of some simple head and valve seat work, and the easiest way to do it is to use a basic and simple open manometer.
So after taking the centre out of an old spark plug (as per David Vizard, great idea!), I put a bit of poly tubing in with resin.
Now I have somewhere neat and tidy to put the clear tubing hose from the manometer.
Flutterby! Zigged when he shoulda zagged.
That explains the musty smell through the vents.......
Betterer
The air filter for the engine was even worse! 🤪
........but still sorta interesting.
I haven't been able to get much shed time, been a bit off-colour, but did feel up to pottering a bit, so plonked an old race can onto my perfectly OK street bike commuter, just made up a slip-on.
Just for testing purposes of course.
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Anyway, the interesting bit.
Look at the colouring on the short joiner pipe, seems to be drawing nicely, an even gradual blend of colour, a good sign of working OK. You should have similar colouring on an exhaust collector, any spots or banding and you have a mismatch somewhere.
Normal VW stuff resumed soon hopefully.........
modnrod wrote:Trying to make a late-model "W" decklid......
.......and yep, I'm still trying (I can be very trying at times apparently). It seems OK enough to me to keep going at it though.
*sigh* Good to know it's fixed.
I am also enjoying this thread. Some good work going on, and cool to see the kids involved and learning.
Hey what is the brand/name of that oil filter sandwich setup. Where can I find them?
Here you go, just one place to get them........
https://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/hda-205/overview/
I rekn Rocket Industries over there, Aeroflow, Speco maybe, they're all in Sydney.
If you get the 3/4"-16 remote oil filter and sandwich plate set-up, then you can use all the very common filters available. I've just bought a box of Mann 719/30 filters for my New Beetle, but they also fit this mount perfectly too, so I have the option of just making it go with a stock VW filter to start with if I want (MUCH easier packaging due to size, and sharing service parts).
New steel fuel line, just some clamps to finish up. Every time I run lines I use steel telling myself it's "proper", then every time I swear and curse for hours calling myself an idiot for not using aluminium!
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Looks the goods mate. 👍
Awesome work 👍
