here's hoping you can help me out, i am having real probs tryin to locate good parts, new and old. I know of Micks Motors but thats about it. i am in CQ but anything will do,also mags... there are hardly any if any v-dub mags i can find! anything,sites,phone numbers u name it.. i mite be sounding a little naive about volkswagons but i have not long moved to Qld from the uk and the scene there is massive and of cause the country is so small compared to here that all shops etc are with in a few hours drive. i have been involved with the V-Dub movement in the uk for years and have been restoring and making custom dubs for years.. the main parts i am trying to locate are engine components,78 cranks 92mm barrels/pistons eliminator heads and that brings me onto another problem i am having. It seems that all the parts i know and use are made by different people over here and they have different names.. causing me great headaches. sorry to harrass you all but i just want to build some more sweet dubs.... thanks to all for any help you can give me... the pic is the last bug i built before leaving the uk..
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Hey there,
Welcom to the forum, thats a sweet lookin bug. :thumb
thanks a lot😎
Where abouts in central qld, there might be some neighbours on the forum.
You should have bought the bug with you when you came. No aussie magazines anymore.
Internet searches are pretty good, but you will probably quickly cotton on that the serious car builders source heir parts from OS.
get them shipped by mates from the UK
check your u2u. do you have an email??
Drink and drive your a bloody idiot!!! make it home you'r a legend !!!!
i am in the Gladstone area....and yea i have been thinking that importing the parts from the uk would be better... even been thinking about talking to some contacts at some of the major suppliers about selling there gear over here.. yea i have an mail...
hairy_surfer@hotmail.com and my U2U? sorry dude have no idea what that is
Welcome to the forum mate :thumb
For U2U, check in the upper RH corner of your screen when you are logged into the forum. It will say "You have X new U2U message(s)". If there's nothing there, then obviously you don't. 😀
Kruizin Kol
www.aircooled.net and 92mm barrels went out in the 80s man,except for dave,90mm or 94,or so ive heard.:P
Welcome mate :thumb
Yeah Oz is a big place and shops are strung out all over the place.
Up the top of the screen is a link calle "OZ VW DIRECTORY" Click on that and there are address and phone #'s and details of shops from all over.
For performance parts there are several people about and they all ship. Fairly cheaply too.
For cranks and other hi po stuff look up
Ben Durie (he chats here) - Newcastle area
V Force - Richard Holzl - Sydney
Vintage Vee Dub Supplies - Boris - Sydney
There are others but these are the guys that i know do good stuff and happily ship.
Yeah - ditch the 92's. Thin walled and dont go as well as 90.5's or 94's
Futue te ipsum!!!
got some more in brissy for u. but they will have to be shipped up the coast. Try harding european, manx buggies (vw and volvo centre), conti engines, they are the main parts places in brissy that i can think of.
hey
there are several good engine builders in australia!! you can try stan pobjoy (he lives where i am) or a few races here use V Force or there is Vintage vee Dub supplies but unfortunately most of these guys are in sydney!! for mags etc try Harding European he imports alot of stuff and he goes under the name Guy_H on this forum!!
nice looking bug!!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
You could even try getting in touch with one of the forum sponsers like Volkspower who carry a lot of aircooled parts. We spend more on parts than anybody else in Victoria. We offer trade prices to forum users who contact by U2U and we also stock disc brake kits in a variety of stud patterns along with most other parts you would need to build a vee-dub. And I haven't even mentioned the wrecking yard yet.
Check the top line on this web page, there is a 'oz vw business directory', and as Volks power said, check out the forum sponsors.
Good luck with the re-builds, looking forward to the results.
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Volkspower wrote:You could even try getting in touch with one of the forum sponsers like Volkspower who carry a lot of aircooled parts.
POW - right between the eyes!!
Ooooops sorry! - i ment to say that !!!! Truly :jesus:jesus:jesus
Please try our sponsors first!!
😀Futue te ipsum!!!
thanks for the help... been able to track down a few of the parts i need.... I have been thinking.. i still have freinds at bigboystoys( if u have read volksworld u will know or have seen the pages) and i know i still can get my trade rates as my mate is still working out of my bodyshop doing the dubs...i am thinking about shipping stuff over here and opening some sort of mail order service.. what you think?? am i wasting my time? i will be ordering stuff for my self so.. why not others?...let me knows.... and if i can help any of ya's with parts etc from the uk let me knows.. only to please to help out another dubber........................
NICE CAR it looks sweet
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
