Hi, just joined and thought I'd show some pics of my bug.
It's going to be a traditional cal look style but with a slight twist on the theme!. have got 67' (one year only) doors and decklid and also pre 67' bonnet. Twist is Subaru ej20 N/A engine with kennedy adapter, 4" wider rear wings and 4" narrower front beam. Wheels are 18" Mazda RX8 wheels fitted with 225 40 18 up front and 235 50 18 out back!.
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looking different, should be good when its finished. welcome aboard as well
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woa kickass dude, get workin!
the empi style scoops are going to look great. where is the radiator going? Also have you checked the frt wheels will fit with the 4" cut??
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Sounds very interesting. Looking forward to seeing more of this build thread.
Radiator is going in spare wheel well - I've got a small radiator, so will hopefully be able to fabricate a small scoop under the front valance and direct air from horn grilles as well.
Heres a shot of the beam - to fit the wheels on I'm running 5 x 100 discs/drums with 1" adapters (5 x 100 to 5 x 114.3)
Fitted the beam up before it was narrowed to see how it looked, then decided on what was needed to fit the wheels within the std wings - 4inches!!!
If I'm honest - the turning circle is pretty poor, but prob not much different than anyone else who's running narrower beam. Things might change though as with this set up I can change wheels easily with quite alot of choice😵😵😵
Forgot to say on last post - Thanks for the warm welcome 👍
I'll keep you updated when I've got a bit further forward🙄
whats your location?
Hey Shrek, good to see you signed up
can't wait to see this thing finished
Thanks Joel, someone already had Shrek, so I'm on here as monkney!. From UK hellbugged 😊
Been busy with the cooling pipes -
Made some clips up as I wasn't to keen on using P style clips
This is what they look like when fitted
Just a few clips to fit at the front and back
Finally got somewhere with the pipework
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That pipe work is fantastic!
Some others I've seen are a real 'I've left this to last' project, slapped together, catch on anything, utter shambles.
Keep up the tiidy work.
Ain't been there, ain't done that.......yet :P
Excellent work....
thanks for the great Photographs...
keep em coming....
OK on the one year only doors...
We didn't have those in Australia..
cheers
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
Nice work. Looking forward to seeing it come along.
Lee - why is there a picture of your car that we've seen many times before in someone elses build thread?
Cheers lads 👍 - Body is now back on "again" so I'll be updating as I go along 😉
Half way through fitting the Radiator 😵💫
Still a bit of work to do as in, make a front cover & lower scoop which will also flow the air through the rad and finish the bottom of the radiator housing.
Finally made a bit more progress on the radiator mounting 🙂
And started to refurb wheels - fronts are really a bit too wide being 18 x 8" so they will be getting narrowed!🙄
Radiator is going in spare wheel well - I've got a small radiator, so will hopefully be able to fabricate a small scoop under the front valance and direct air from horn grilles as well.
Heres a shot of the beam - to fit the wheels on I'm running 5 x 100 discs/drums with 1" adapters (5 x 100 to 5 x 114.3)
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love the big window early panel look. Thats what i'm doing.
Please educate us with the 67 doors, what makes them different? And where did you get your pipe clamps from?
squizy wrote:Lee - why is there a picture of your car that we've seen many times before in someone elses build thread?
Ditto. You also don't need a watchdog to protect an automatic.
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It's like a trampoline with a net around it. Lame
