Dont you love it when new bits and pieces arrive, no matter what they are. Mick, just a question about the water pipes under your car. Are they temporary things holding the pipes in place to the floor or the final bolts. Its just that they look very long. Keep the photos and updates coming.
Cheers, Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!
Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.They're Cleco's holding the pipes on, used in aviation for holding two pieces of sheet metal together before riveting. But they are very handy for other uses also.
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Yeppo, supporting the pipes.
still heaps to go ,but still moving along.
i hope you enjoy
down sharon.
Nice work Brad👍 hmmm....
Reub
Far out. You are giving me bad (good) thoughts that the wife would divorce me over. Looks like Brad has done this before and knows exactly what he's doing. Great job Brad, Mick and the boys at Westside.
Keep the photos coming, Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!
Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.Those are yours aren't they Brad.
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
well they wont fit on the EJ20 😂😂
Cool, man this thing is moving quickly.
One question can someone explain this fuel tank setup for me ?
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australiabut me think you need to cut some more .🤪
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The Gunnedah Drag post Josh and I got some good times with our stock old wrx motor .
We had a ball and not breakages .
Josh just runs a very old stock 1974 swing axle box🤪
and me just a old Lbug box.😂
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car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲
Brad the round section over near the middle of the tank is a surge pot that westi has added to tank instead of a seperate one
alot neater too but i dunno whats goin on with the EFI pump attached to the tank tho??
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I was over at Westis shop the other day, the pump is mounted on the tank for tight packaging purposes, we all know as you add more things to a bug you run out of space.
I'm going to get Westi to do a similar thing to my tank, then I can do away with a lift pump and surge tank, KISS at its best.
I will also get him to fill in the bottom of the tank where the LHD hump is, should give me a few extra litres capacity.
Steve
Some nice custom work there done by the boys at Westside.
shame another car has gone to the dark side tho....🥷🥷
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Some more fuel tank shots.
yeh nice idea on the tank there.....I done a similar idea on a my custom tank for my car.*😎
yeh we havbe been doing this for ages,saves having extra lines and pumps.much neater.
down sharon.
westi wrote:yeh we havbe been doing this for ages,saves having extra lines and pumps.much neater.
Ok so you put a surge tank into the factory tank, that is fine I get that, but what is the go with the fuel pump ? Is it just mounted there and now you will run a feed line to the surge ?
I just though you might be doing something funky inside with lines or some special sort of pump.
Do you get any issues with hard mounting the pump like that ?
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australiait would have to be rubber mounted, it lookls like a 044 and they are noisy 🙂 they can also get a bit hot and I'm guessing the radiator in front of it will not be helping. I mention this crap as this is the logic I've been working with and why I have not mounted my pumps on the firewall. Also on a tangent what size lines are you going to be running? I'm running AN-6 high pressure and AN-8 low, off on a tangent question, can I run a fuel cell legally? I hope so or I have one for sale lol
Stephen
guys please take not most of the pic's are of things in the process of being built.nothing is set in concrete yet.
once the rubber is in place and the pump is actually mounted ,noise shouldn't be a problem,these pumps are quiet compared to edelbrock ,carter ,facetblah blah blah.
6 is a return size 8 for supply.6 each way is also fine.
as for the fuel cell all engineers have there own interpration of the rules.but no from my understanding unless it has an internal bladder.
as for the solid mounting of the pump ,never had a problem.you can run the intank. but i preffer a pump that is going to be siuted to any mods done in the future. i will post up some more stuff tonight.air ducting for the radiator is lokkin pretty cool.
anyone else got pic's of how they have ducted there air into the radiator.i would like to have an idea how everyone else does there's.you can never have to many idea's.
down sharon.
I've seen a guy use the little grills on the front guards to direct more air in - don't know how much it helped but i think he said it made a difference - i think it was posted here...
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=35720&page=3
thats the link to the whole thread - page three is about the cooling from the vents. Looks a little crappy, but the idea is there and can be made to look better.
A few more shots.
Really is looking the goods.
I think Its going to be a sweet deal there mate.
Some shots on the gearbox mount - only the beginning.
looking good
show us your gates
Will have some more shots in the morning.
Thanks for the pics Mick, Im enjoying watching the progress.. 🙂
its looking good👍
Hey guys, thanks for the comments.
Good to know people are enjoying the photos and i'm not wasting my time showing you all.
Some more for you!
You'll love these shots - i do!
