my daily......

hi everyone heres my daily driver. most of the time it goes, sometimes it stops, so i fix the problem and off we go again!

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creature comforts













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IS the decklid carbon fibre?
cool shit!

We like.

i like! certainly not your average bug 😎

paint it and destroy that charater ?!?!?!?! i love it the way it is now :thumb awesome ride

Very cool dumone! I remember your car from valla last vw spectacular (you had to travel far by the looks of your location details!). I love the scallops....stands out from the crowd!

sweet car where did you get your deck lid from i want one

That rocks! I wouldn't paint it either....
Steve

yeah the deck lid is carbon fibre, a truck backed into the one that is in the picture (hence the crappy fit at the top), so he had to buy me a new one which im working on now. i cut the sub frame of the top of a standard deck lid and sikaflexed it to the carbon wha la!!! when the guy hit it, the lid flexed inside out until it hit the carby and pushed the car forward a couple of metres (in gear with the hand brake on) the only damage was that the gel coat has stress fractures, but the carbon itself suffered no damage tough stuff!! its quite cool because now i can push my foot on the lid and show people just how flexible, yet strong it is

carbon fibre "W" lid.

sub frame and boot , white colour is sanding dust.

surely missed but never forgotten!

first ride 1991

Ahh

So that's who owns that 1.

Hey Damo
:beer

BTW
Don't change the paint scheme, it looks great the way it is.

I've seen it around and wondered who owned it,

then I passed u on the h'way and noticed the engine lid.

Put 2 and 2 together.

You have been busy
Thats a nice shed of yours too
What about those notchbacks - can we see more?

Retain the paint job and the individual appearance as it looks great as is 😎

can you still get the decklids? I was told by Reub in Darwin that they were not getting made an more....any info on that? i'd certainly be keen on one.

there is going to be a new carbon fibre engine lid on ebay tomorrow... stay tuned

Lams wrote:there is going to be a new carbon fibre engine lid on ebay tomorrow... stay tuned

ooooooooooooooooooooow :thumb

try luke pell he sells them i think!
cheers
rhys

yeah luke can get them still 02 65648008.

Hi boys, the decklids are still getting made iam the supplier to luke pell if wanting later model ones i can do them as well plus anything else as well .People have these are Dumone,Reubs,Iswinkles etc JVLRacing

how about running boards john, any progress there?

Can do,supply me some running boards without the rubber on top then i will make some moulds no probs,cost not sure due to shape with roll over bends.JVLRacing

here you go guys carbon fibre engine lid $199
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4519538365

please check out the other items too!

or so the saying goes with whitelines.

chatting to a couple of people 'bout these lately so here they are;front.

i had to lenghten the mounting plate used here (atop link bolt), so it looks like the shorter one that came with the bars will be spot on for use with a narrowed beam(2 inch)











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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?

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.

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do you still have the stock front sway bar attached too?

its dub is good

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

yeah

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?

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.

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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!

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That looks great! 👍 😁

it did until the apprentice backed into it- bah!

he brakey, he pay, but it does look amazing. 👍

Hey, si your front end still linkpin?

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

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.😎

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........

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).

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Time for a Pobjoy Anti Surge sump....................So it was you I passed on the Hwy coming back from Grafton!!!

Love the car.:thumb

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😉

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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

How's the new brakes?

wow that rack looks great!

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!

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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?

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

That sucks

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!

hmmm lookin sweet yeah.. nice