Didn't like the idea of crappy T pieces for the booster plumbing so I did a bit of drilling and tapping today and ended up with this.....
Bling a bling
Woo hoo, now you got the idea Ian. 🙂 👍
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Thought you would like that...........
another windscreen goes in tomorrow, this one won't get smashed (i hope)
rear window and door windows go in on sat dee (wasn't working for me the other night)
door cards and speakers go in on sat dee
brake bleeding and adjusting on sun dee
still waiting on my heads....... humfffff
ok ,so now I'm calling out......
can anyone help with a rear window, a gennie and a treasure chest lock for my build.....
cheers Binner
Thanks matt for the offer, i will check micks as its easier and local
does anyone have a pic of the treasure chest lock or what its supposed to look like as i may have something like it?
1 1963 356b porsche coupe
2 1960 karmann ghia cab
1 1965 karmann ghia cab
1 1966 karmann cab
1 1961 split ute
1 1967 split p/van
1 1952 standard bug
1 1963 ragtop
1 1960 ragtop
2 1954 ovals
1 1956 oval baja project
1 1957 oval flying flea
looks like this .......
did the cards last nite..... clean and neat and I'm actually surprised the power winders work...
nah i dont have 1 of those locks mate, cant you fix that 1?
1 1963 356b porsche coupe
2 1960 karmann ghia cab
1 1965 karmann ghia cab
1 1966 karmann cab
1 1961 split ute
1 1967 split p/van
1 1952 standard bug
1 1963 ragtop
1 1960 ragtop
2 1954 ovals
1 1956 oval baja project
1 1957 oval flying flea
^^^^^^^^ nahh Steve, It is fooked!. seized up and been mangled inside lock.
Think I found one though, still no heads. I'm almost ready to think they are "lost" in transport. Not happy but what can you do. 🤪
hope you all had a good xmas day.... I did. 🙂
finally my heads have been located after leaving Chicago on the 10th Dec, they are now in Australia and in transit to me. How does it take 16 days to get to Syd ?... I know it's xmas and such but 16 days..... pffft .
anyone want to buy it once its on the road? 🙂
wow , I woke up this morning and my ute got replaced with this
Oh My God.....you poor bugger🙁
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damn good shuttle pig :-)
chuck a rack for the DH bikes on the back & let 6 smelly sweaty grotty filthy DH riders cram into the thing
fark yeah, lets go :-)
so my heads finally arrived by pac mule this arvo....
ripped open the box and started on things, first of all those Cro Mo pushrods are beautiful. Secondly .... those valves look BIG (yippie)
So I started on polishing them up and got to a finish I think is good enough for me, tonite will be match porting and fitting nipping them up ......
enjoy the pics....
these are the before shots........
.........and here is after the magic
They don't look like Los Panchito's ???
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^^nope ...failed on those... went with mufu. I ordered so long ago (about 12 weeks) I forgot what I decided on, it was either CB or mofoco and I can't even remember why I chose Mofoco.
Muffler doesn't fit with moustache bar, modifying of the bar today.
so after a day at my workshop (AKA work) I cut up the stash bar and did some modifying to suit.....
enjoy
ps ... If you have a good eye can you spot the art work in the background of the first picture ... it will startle some of you ...... 😂
and here is finished....
So now your engine is going to sit higher,or you extended the mounts to the body so the cradle sits lower ???
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^^^ roger that , got 2 packers to take up the gap.
You mean you had to mod the bar to have the exhaust?
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yes, Mr Berry I did. The pipes were dead inline/same height with the horizontals of the stach bar. I had to drop the bar down about 45mm to allow the pipes to attach to the muffler. And now I will either fab up some longer mounts or ad packers/ spacer (40mm SHS) to take up the gap.
If you add spacers,do you think it will give you a lot of excess movement???
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👎 bummer, I thought the Vintage Speed stuff all fitted!
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here is what I call spacers.....
Matt, you can see in the long shot where I had the issue with heights....
Matt i think the vintage speed mufflers like ians only fit up to 71 models.
Ian it would have been less trouble for you if we just swapped mufflers😂
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56 Beetle
Looks like you got it sorted Ian, well done.
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^^^^ cheers bloke... still need to pick your brain though.
I went to bolt up the webers with those manifolds and F$%k me if the are too short!!! I'm about 40mm to low. If I try to mount the hex bar it fuggin hits the gennie!!....
Guess I'm milling up some spacers for the manifolds, glad I got a milling machine at work ;-) or if you got any easier/better ideas? 😁
Pumba wrote:Matt i think the vintage speed mufflers like ians only fit up to 71 models.
Ian it would have been less trouble for you if we just swapped mufflers😂
ahh but if we swapped I wouldn't of had soo much fun today
😂
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