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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#450223
How much difference does it make to the handling?

Does the car still tend to understeer?

I assume the shocks are Konis or something similar?
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
http://drivingnotpolishing.blogspot.com.au/

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#450246
the front bar is a 18mm, the rear a 22mm

how much difference? try oil starvation has become a problem (yes it's full & only doing 4400rpm).

corners at high speed are taken at 105 instead of 80kmph. thats 20%!

its now balanced perfect, no understeer no oversteer.you point it where you want and it goes there.if it needs a bit more, you can give it a bit more turn on the wheel. imagine being able to change lines on long constant radius corners, in a swing axle!

on the few occasions i've managed to get it sideways in the wet, when it flicks back (as swing axles do!), it goes back to center and not past, and squats and powers on. no "tank slapping". on the dirt its similar, its easy to predict how far its going to go and it holds there, and gradually straightens back to center-yummy

shocks are 15 year old pedders sports, konis soon, how did you guess?

the pedders were there before the bars, as were the same tyres (195 & 205 potenza), so its been a direct comparision with and without the bars.....guess its easy to see that i'm totally stoked with them.

[ Edited on 24-1-06 by dumone ]

kroozzn63 Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,005 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#450426
its dub is good
show us your gates

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#450436
bus914 wrote:do you still have the stock front sway bar attached too?
yeah

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#450635
bus914 wrote:isn't it dangerous for some reason to put a sway bar on the rear of a swing axle car? do you have any camber limiting device?


not when the bar is specifically designed for a swinger.

[ Edited on 25-1-06 by dumone ]

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#468884
well well, who would have thought a smashed windscreen could lead to extensive repairs and an almost total respray!

first thing was to fix the rust under the corners of the screen. easy...a panel beater friend that was at Volksrestore in its hey day can sort that......







so you get that done and it looks so good! the panel beaters are quiet, the first bit was done the day after i got the smashed screen, perhaps they would like to take the bonnet, that has a giant peeling patch dead center, back to bear metal (laz also straightens and adjusts it and now it latches with a gentle one finger push)....done!

i really should get the indicator holes welded and smoothed too (they've had 3 seperate sets of bullet hole stickers covering them for a couple of years)...knock out that ding on the corner and repair where the tyres rubbed before, ohh, and the sections under the running boards need help....cool!

now i'm addicted!...do the front beaver panel- the overider holes have to go and the point on the bottom of the spare wheel section needs "restoring", after being turned inside out from landing on the nose after a jump(don't ask-i REALLY drive my car)

so they do that and i get the call to say they're done a couple of days after i drove in there...stoked!




well its hard to match old paint isn't it!

the roof got done with the front, but the sides and rear guards now look rather dull-there are a couple of patches of mis-matched paint where rust has been slaughtered before................oh bugger it!, do the top of the doors, rear guards-cracks and overider holes. need new indicator housings?-no problem.

better straighten the rear apron (AGAIN!). weld up the cracks in the doors just below the 1/4 vent windows...











the white sides and scallops remain the same, but thats the story of how you end up getting a nice "all holes welded"

accidental respray!

[ Edited on 28-3-06 by dumone ]

PrettyBlueBug Almost over it...

2,032 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#470956
That looks great! 👍 😁

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#471136
it did until the apprentice backed into it- bah!

karmannghia60 Karmann Ghia Sucker

1,459 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#476466
How do you actaully get to read the guages in the glovebox while driving? 🙂
Raf

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#476498
yeah pete, 'tis still linkpin with late discs in porsche pattern.

Raf-the guages are angled towards the driver, very visible actually. a berg temp stick will light up the speedo oil light if the glovebox lid is closed and motors getting hot.....foolproof.😎

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#504743
well, after the apprentice backed into "bugs-money", the bonnet was removed as the car was required for transport. after putting up with the ratty look white bonnet for almost two months!!! (don't ask), i decided to push the scallop issue a bit further.

all of 1 hour was spent to mask, remove, paint and reinstall the bonnet before driving down the road in the rain to get back to work...........t bars were added that night to aid the hot rod look.





thank god, a week later, the bonnet was fixed and finally re-sprayed in the correct color.(it took three attempts)



the original carbon deck lid has also been painted green, the second generation one resides on the car at the moment, and looks 100% better




polished fuchs' should be ready for August, i hope........

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#504795
dumone wrote:the front bar is a 18mm, the rear a 22mm

how much difference? try oil starvation has become a problem (yes it's full & only doing 4400rpm).

[ Edited on 24-1-06 by dumone ]
Time for a Pobjoy Anti Surge sump....................So it was you I passed on the Hwy coming back from Grafton!!!

Love the car.:thumb


hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#504842
yeah, no mercy from you is there!

nice driving up there matey,your last run through the flip flop at the top off the hill was pushing the limit👍

wont be long and i will be one of the competitors😉

[ Edited on 25-6-06 by dumone ]

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#542255
well, bordering on schitzophrenic,"bugsmoney" has now taken on the personality of a tourer🤪










underneath is not looking so hot at the moment. the floor pan is slowly dissapearing (i hate living on the coast) i'm thinking it's time for a new chassis,a narrowed beam,and finishing the 1776...... this could get interesting

56astro Custom Title Time!

1,772 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#542260
How's the new brakes?

VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
35MPG on 101.3kPa

VWFOOL King for a day, Fool for a lifetime.

3,436 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#542262
wow that rack looks great!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
One man's junk...

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#542269
thanx Sam, looks right up your alley, surprised you don't have one👍....

yeah Astro, new brakes all good.

(brake thread here)

suffered from some "knock off" producing a long peddle.......assumed it to be coming from the rear, but when the car was up off the ground a quick check on the front revealed all.....

....i had replaced the dual locking nuts on the front stubs with the later balljoint style split nut (aftermarket for link pins) with the allen key lock......well, the only thing stopping my wheels going down the road on their own was the thickness of these nuts!!!!!!!.... they had come loose and the grease cap was the only thing stopping them from falling right past the end of the stub......all good now tho

as for the local gossip Steve, yes, i was was one of the 10 "lucky" people who had their tyres slashed in the car park a fortnight ago. two week old potenza's😬. with the fuchs i had to go to 60 series fronts, and they rub, hence the renewed interest in a narrowed beam...... it's looking like it will be a balljoint one tho😏 and that means the berg five speed and ZF will be coming out of storage WHOO hOO!

[ Edited on 8-10-06 by dumone ]

56astro Custom Title Time!

1,772 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#542270
dumone wrote:as for the local gossip Steve, yes, i was was one of the 10 "lucky" people who had their tyres slashed in the car park a fortnight ago. two week old potenza's😬. with the fuchs i had to go to 60 series fronts, and they rub, hence the renewed interest in a narrowed beam...... it's looking like it will be a balljoint one tho😏 and that means the berg five speed and ZF will be coming out of storage WHOO hOO!
Sh1t Daimo, that's no good. Hadn't heard that gossip. :o

What were the details?

VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
35MPG on 101.3kPa

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#542271
just some mug on a mission, Friday night 10 cars between the co-op and the RSL, some with one tyre, some with four flat ones......the dick even managed to put some nice gouges in my totally refurbished fuchs'....fancy that.....sourced em from the US, 1973 model wheels....and one Friday night in a "quiet" country town they're gouged forever

56astro Custom Title Time!

1,772 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#542274
That sucks

VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
35MPG on 101.3kPa

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#585677
been gathering some goodies for the rack, found a mother load on the weekend at a garage sale:thumb.....doesn't do the engine temp any favours hey!








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7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 ·

#585678
hmmm lookin sweet yeah.. nice
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