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daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 04:41 PM

Not exactly their one, but the same colour, stay tuned for regular updates as it is built....

daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 04:42 PM

daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 04:44 PM

daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 04:48 PM

pyr0 - July 7th, 2003 at 04:52 PM

kool :thumb :cool: :thumb

Andy42 - July 7th, 2003 at 05:05 PM

So it should look like one of these

Andy42 - July 7th, 2003 at 05:07 PM

So it should look like one of these

daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 05:10 PM

Quote: So it should look like one of these

It should look alot like these, they are the same car different views.
They are going to do the bar work and a few other things a little different though.:thumb

daz67 - July 7th, 2003 at 05:14 PM

Oh I see now....

Yeah something like that....

daz67 - September 1st, 2003 at 08:10 AM

Now the Build starts.

They have their work cut out, it has to be ready and reliable before the Beach trip in November.....

Andy42 - September 1st, 2003 at 10:15 AM

i wish them all the luck to do it in that time, we struck a few probs with ours but mainly a lack of time I have sent you an email as well.

daz67 - September 1st, 2003 at 03:37 PM

I have forwarded onto Mic, I think it would be a good idea to try and catch up with you and check out your buggy. Any chance of this Sunday?

Can call me on 0419665725.

Thanks

Min-76 - September 6th, 2003 at 10:39 PM

The start

Min-76 - September 6th, 2003 at 10:47 PM

Fitted Kombi box to pan

Min-76 - September 6th, 2003 at 10:57 PM

Fitted kombi motor with help from my one armed helper (Dad)

Min-76 - September 6th, 2003 at 11:08 PM

Rear view

Brad - September 8th, 2003 at 05:08 AM

Funny place for an oil cooler

daz67 - September 8th, 2003 at 07:47 AM

I think it may end up a little higher, on the cage maybe?

Brad - September 8th, 2003 at 08:09 AM

I dunno I have seen some pretty crazy ideas from up that neck of the woods:P

wibble - September 9th, 2003 at 12:19 AM

Have had one mounted in front of the fan intake, seemed to work well, yeah I know it's heating the air going into the motor but in a buggy getting plenty of air flow it doesn't cause any probs-another bonus is that you can't see it there.
just some ideas for ya!!

Brad - September 9th, 2003 at 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wibble
Have had one mounted in front of the fan intake, seemed to work well, yeah I know it's heating the air going into the motor but in a buggy getting plenty of air flow it doesn't cause any probs-another bonus is that you can't see it there.
just some ideas for ya!!

Although I have a funny feeling this post is just fishing for a response, I am going to answer in case you are serious.

Running an oil cooler or any form of restriction in front of the fan shroud is a very bad idea. Not only will it reduce the amount of air being inducted into the low pressure high quantity fan it will begin the process of superheating the air it is using. The hotter the engine gets the hotter the oil gets, the hotter the oil gets the hotter the air gets, the hotter the engine gets and so on.

You have said you ran it and it ran fine, did you have temp senders and cylinder head temp senders and guages ? If not I would suggest that the engine running is not a good measure of if it was fine of not.

I have played with this theory before and by placing certain percentages of cover in front of the shroud I can vary the cyliner head temp quite easliy.

In short it is a VERY VERY BAD IDEA !!!

wibble - September 9th, 2003 at 02:53 PM

The setup I had wasn't on there long enough to test properly it was setup by an unnamed "VW specialist" in darwin
it had about a 3" gap between the shroud and cooler, only had a dipstick temp sender but overall temp seemed good.
but like I said testing was short as it did a big end before doing 150 k's yay!
still trying to get some money out of the #*!k that was over 2 years ago.......

wacked1 - September 9th, 2003 at 06:09 PM

you have email, questions on setting up the oil cooler.
thanks
wacked1
:jesus

Brad - September 10th, 2003 at 11:19 AM

So the guy who decided it was a good idea to put teh cooler in front of the fan, also built a VW engine and got 150km out of a bottom end... must really know his stuff

Out of interest how the hell did you get 3" between the rear of the buggy and the fan shroud, let alone 3" plus cooler ?

wibble - September 11th, 2003 at 03:10 PM

cooler sat pretty close to the glass (bit too close I reckon) Yeah heard good things about this guy until I dropped the manx off and heard lots of bad things after the money was handed over, ended up getting towed by a hyundi (yeah scarey!) 100k took the motor out, dumped it on his floor and demanded most of my money back,still waiting..
Haven't trusted another machanic or "specialist" since

Min-76 - September 13th, 2003 at 12:50 AM

Front end (ball joint) before we started fitting the adjusters.

Min-76 - September 13th, 2003 at 01:01 AM

It looked & sounded easy in the Manx Club mag. One small problem they just did not look like they were sitting in the beam right. A quick call to Wes for a chat and things were back on track.

Min-76 - September 13th, 2003 at 01:20 AM

As the directions in the mag said, as long as ya line your scribe marks up & keep it square ya can`t go to far wrong.
(Welding the adjusters in was easy, I didn`t have to do it. Thanks to my Dad! as being right handed and having to weld with the left because of a breakage isn`t easy)

Min-76 - September 13th, 2003 at 01:27 AM

Both adjusters fitted. We also fitted the bump stops to each side.

Brad - September 13th, 2003 at 05:29 AM

Progress looks great, might make it to Fraser yet .....

The article told you how to install the adjusters, just not for the ball joint front end..... next issue will cover that so make sure youv'e got heaps of photos for me.