All comments accepted weapon!
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Love it. keep the rear the way it is...even the tail lights suit it.:thumb:thumb:thumb
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
I might lower her completely, but I'd rather the massive rake.
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
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2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Well so far 15 out of 19 say I made a good decision...
Phase two will commence soon... (Obviously it'll be the guards, wheels, neons and suspension height!!)
Man, I need to buy Jeff's swaybar.
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Stick the bumpers back on.
C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
dude I love matt black, but you need some serious dumping as was said by others. You almost got a baja bug with that much height. Plus you need a skinny/fatty (front rear) tyre setup if you want the real hotrod look. Then you can rake it properly. At the mo there's way too much rubber on the front, and totally not enough at the back. Find a pair of 15x4" inch rims off a beelte and put 145s on em for the front. Some mega whitewalls would help too. 😉
like this...
[ Edited on 10-8-06 by pete wood ]
My girlfriends name is Veronika. She loves naming cars, i will show her your beetle and let her know that they share the same name.
Lower it before you get the nose bleeds. :P
Liam_81 wrote:Lower it before you get the nose bleeds. :P
ha ha ha, good one!
😂She looks unhappy to me. Chuck the bumpers back on, lower her a bit (rake just looks silly to me) and she'll look as badass as those rear lights suggest she is.
Just my 2c
I had towel rails on her at one stage:
But I'd rather her without bumpers (Or at the most T-Bars).
I'm using 6" Mags for the front and 8.5" for the business end...
Will also be shoving 245's, maybe 65/14 Radials on the arse, and just 185 65 on the front.
Tonight I'll be making a trip to my shed to pick up my spare guards, I've decided to pump them out 5" (to account for lowered struts) on the front and MAYBE 6" on the rear.
I'll post some pics of how they go once I've started cutting & joining.
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
To give you a rough idea, the tyres are 185 65/14's already, so pumping the guards out 5" and dumping her on the front should look grouse.
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Who reckons I should've left her left hand drive?
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah youve done good mate :bounce :bounce :bounce :bounce
🙂
but yeah t-bars and LOOOOOOOW
🙂
T bars are good :P,
gotta work out what i'm gonna do with my set 👍😀
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
you need to ask yourself some questions.
A. What do you want the car to look like? ROD, German looker, resto custom, stocker. Coz everything you do needs to be controlled by that.
B. Does the car actually handle? Coz from what I can see it must understeer like a pig at the mo. Beetles have no weight in the front so big fat tyres on the front is a waste unless they are low profile and very very sticky. From what I can see your front tyres are neither. It's bordering on a Baja currently.
Sorry if I offend you, but I know you are a young fella and all young fellas suffer similar problems, I did the same. We just do things willy nilly in the hope the car will look cooler. So take a tip. DON'T pump the front guards out. Just get some skinny tyres (on stock rims) that will fit and are a good compound and lower the car. Add some sway bars and you'll be surprised at just how much better it grips and how much better it looks. macpherson strut beetles can be tuned to handle better than any other beetle. Take advantage of it and when you get that right, I think you'll find the car looks heaps better too. 😉
I've given you a few cars to look at to see what I mean.
The first one belongs to bizarre. It looks great. Check the stance and the wheel and tyre setup. This thing drives really well ask Bizarre. (the man wandering in front of it is also off the forum).
The green car belongs to 71ejvan and the cabrio used to be squizy's. (I'd tell you who owns it know but he's be very uncool about it, lol). Now I know the green car is german look, but the stance it great, and the cabrio was one of the best looking cars I ever saw on the road in terms of ride height while moving. It looked awesome. It's been changed back to standard now and I have the rear sway bar off that car on my car now. But you get the point.
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
pete wood wrote:A. What do you want the car to look like? ROD, German looker, resto custom, stocker. Coz everything you do needs to be controlled by that.
B. Does the car actually handle? Coz from what I can see it must understeer like a pig at the mo. Beetles have no weight in the front so big fat tyres on the front is a waste unless they are low profile and very very sticky. From what I can see your front tyres are neither. It's bordering on a Baja currently.
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
A: Why do I need it to LOOK like something, the whole point of owning a car is personalisation, and creating your own look.
B: It handles quite good, suprisingly it oversteers a little.
And yes I'm a young fella, but the thing is this is what I want to do... NOT just to make it look cool... plus I have the wheels in my shed for it already which require the wider guards.
Out of the cars I own and drive, Veronika is one of the best (But not THE best) drives I have when it comes to steering.
Even AFTER I converted her to RHD when I was 16.
Thanks for the tips, but yeah no specific look thanks, I don't want to blend in with all the GL's or Rods. I'll take it as it comes, just like my other projects at the moment.
(I know I know... Young fella... But I get the 'Do your own thing' part from my father, a (As I call) unique car owner/builder)
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
make ur own style up brenton :P
we shall dub it... staggerism!
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
I say do what you want, when you want, with who you want and how you want :bounce :bounce :bounce
🙂
butidontunderstand wrote:I say do what you want, when you want, with who you want and how you want :bounce :bounce :bounce
But lately that's gotten me into even more trouble!!!
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Don't get me wrong Pete, your advice is helpful (Lowering the front, using swaybars etc) but I'm on my way to doing those mods too...
Thanks for the tips either way, sorry if I offended you with my replies but hey that's life.
My current plans are to:
* Install lowered struts (Or adjustable struts).
* Install a sway-a-way swaybar (From bugbrained).
* Pump the guards out to make way for my mags wheels.
* Rebuild the engine (Use twin carbs etc too)
And maybe later on make some T-bars up, convert to type three braking and get a heavier torsion bar for the rear.
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
mag wheels? why didn't you say so? Cool, do that, I thought you were pumping the guards to cover what you already have. Got any pics of the new wheels?
Listen, I'm not trying to say don't do something different. Do what ever you want, but figure out the big picture first. That's all I was trying to say.🙂
Volkswagenboy wrote:...inches to the front guards to allow the mags I have to sit inside...
I did tell ya!! I said I have mags a few times!!
But yeah man I know what you're saying.
😀
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
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2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
I can vouch for that oversteer! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :P
Watch out for fences and sign posts!
Tazz
1962 Type3 Squareback
1967 Type3 Fastback "Kermit"
The truth is important. It will set you free
Well yes Tazz, that time she DID understeer, mainly because I got too cocky in the mud and decided to plant the foot!!
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
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2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Ur telling me, Taz and i just saw u disappear side-ways off the road! Good thing you keep that extra pair of jocks in the glove box hey?
Nice red wheels... who helped ya do that aye? 😁
Ash x
1963 Single Cab Ute: "El Concreto"
1962 Baja Beetle: "Peanut"
1968 Porsche 912 SWB: "Pip"
1972 Kombi Snail: "The Snail"
2012 Skoda Octavia Scout: "Scout"
2016 Scirocco R: "Rocco"
Who helped me do that? A certain lovely young lady I know. 🙂
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Another picture!
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
Just like to say a big thanks to Ash for helping me get Veronika ready, and for making the cruise down more enjoyable.
Oh I need to get some pictures of Guido here!
-Staggers.
STAGGERS AUTOMOTIVE - Heavy Vehicle Diesel Specialist
JB CUSTOMS & CLASSICS - Car Builders
2/53 Tradelink Drive, Browns Plains
