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 HappyDaze
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 05:44 AM |
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That's a bit more like it.
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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lou0060
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 06:28 PM |
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Hi Steve, started the thread, Tampico racecar, but had trouble loading photos......
obviously a new skill to be learnt......
will load them up as soon as I work out how....
1971 karmann ghia Cabrio - Cruising 
1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust 
1968 race beetle - twin turbo Subaru - stress relief 
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 06:14 PM |
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Hi
I put the body on the pan today and brought the car home.
I ran out of time to fit any panels, still plenty to do over the weekend.
I completely stuffed up the rear suspension ride height, its pain because its so easy to alter when the body isn't in the way.
Steve
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 06:18 PM |
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A few photos of the brake pedal setup.
I moved the brake master cylinder over to the right 30 mm so that I could fit the clutch master next to it.
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 07:35 PM |
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ar progress
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 08:47 PM |
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can't wait to see it with the guards etc on. looks sht hot Steve.
1971 karmann ghia Cabrio - Cruising
1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust
1968 race beetle - twin turbo Subaru - stress relief
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 09:15 PM |
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looking good steve 
if i appear on your doorstep/driveway next weekend could you blame me? progressed ALOT from when i saw it
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STIDUB - yep its still a work in progress
Vwdcq club car racing/ and crashing while my bug isn't finished.
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| posted on January 7th, 2011 at 09:25 PM |
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looking good steve
if i appear on your doorstep/driveway next weekend could you blame me? progressed ALOT from when i saw it
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Bring your spanners, I had a reason to get a move on, the engineer who has seen me through this is retiring
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| posted on January 8th, 2011 at 10:28 AM |
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Those front tyres back to front are glaring at me 
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| posted on January 8th, 2011 at 11:32 AM |
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nice trailer
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| posted on January 8th, 2011 at 11:59 AM |
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Hi Seve,
Weary of sounding like a dickhead... do vwrx bugs do good burnouts? I have seen quite a few conversions on the net and thought there would have been
some guys keen on donuts...I'm sure there is power to burn but is there too much weight being RR is it too much stress on the components? I have
really enjoyed reading your posts and Joels. Keep up the great work looks like it will be special ride when finished.
Cheers
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| posted on January 8th, 2011 at 02:45 PM |
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Hi
Joel, I was in hurry to get the car out the panel shop, guy was waiting to go home.
Aussie Dubbin, Jak does some good skids with his car, most rexy bugs run Type 1 gearboxes, these limit the amount of abuse that can be given to the
driveline. My car has a G50 Porsche transmission, it should handle the power output OK. I didn't build this car just to do burnouts, I want to use
for a few speed events and going to interstate car shows etc, I might have a crack at the 1/4 mile.
Steve
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| posted on January 8th, 2011 at 08:59 PM |
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Jaks lights up those fat back tyres quite nicely.
I've done it a couple of times by accident with the same size tyres but if Im gonna do it on purpose some stock rims spin nicely but it's murder on
the tranny
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| posted on January 9th, 2011 at 07:23 PM |
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Looking great there Steve. A good feeling when you see them coming together after being apart for a few years or more, I too am having that buz at
the moment. There is no race, but you will definitely have yours up and running before me. But you are also on a time frame with your engineer.
Enjoy the re-building and keep the photos coming.
Kev.
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| posted on January 10th, 2011 at 12:40 AM |
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Hi
Thanks Kevin, I've just came in from a big night in the garage, its 1.35 am, been painting some chassis and suspension pieces I forgot about and I
reset the rear end a bit higher, I also worked on some heat shielding on the firewall.
Steve
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| posted on January 10th, 2011 at 07:47 AM |
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Been a long time since I had to work those sort of hours on my own car. Amazing what a dead line will do.
Hope it all goes smoothly, Kev.
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| posted on January 10th, 2011 at 07:51 AM |
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Come on you two, never mind wasting valuable time on here - get back out to the garage!
Cheers, Greg
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on January 10th, 2011 at 11:50 PM |
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Hi
Another big night, it takes its toll after working all day at the day job as well.
Fitted some new rotors to my 996 rear brakes that I use on the front. I originally had extreme cross drilled rotors, I'm sure the engineer wouldn't
have liked them, these rotors and hubs were originally on the Dak to the Future car.
I've also ran all new soft & hard brake lines. I'm thinking about moving my bake fluid reservoir down lower nearer to master cylinder along with
the clutch master, I hate the tube arrangement that RHD bugs got.
Is this anal? I went and ran a torque wrench over all chassis bolts.
Steve
Photo explanation, all the brakes and some of the suspension were on my old yellow bug, the exteeme cross drilled rotors when they were on my yellow
bug
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 12:35 AM |
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Hi Steve,
Been having a peek at your build, very nicely done if I may say so. As for using a torque wrench on the chassis bolts, to me, thats a standard
operating procedure. I personally always use a torque wrench to tighten bolts/nuts, heck I even torque up my oil drain plug bolts and retaining plate
nuts on my 73 squareback.
Keep going with the torque wrench 
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 10:54 AM |
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posted by 1303Steve
Aussie Dubbin, Jak does some good skids
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I'm far to mature & responsible for that type of behaviour
besides, Skids are for people that can't wipe their bum properly.
Hurry up Steve! the clock is ticking, stop typing & start wrenching!
regards
Jak
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 03:41 PM |
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Hi Jak
I need some comic relief every now and then.
Just been to see Westy, hopefully he can do the exhaust and some coolant line work early next week when he clears some other jobs.
Steve
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 05:54 PM |
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looking good Steve, seems we are racing each other even before we hit the track!! I am planning to have mine ready by nationals but you seem to have
pulled ahead a bit over the last 2 days. The rain up here is holding me up a bit....
Anal is now right in too by the way, last Saturday my mate and I polished the roll cage.......
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1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust
1968 race beetle - twin turbo Subaru - stress relief
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 06:40 PM |
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besides, Skids are for people that can't wipe their bum properly.
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HEY JACK r u talking bout Me, Steve N Louie ????
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 06:43 PM |
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besides, Skids are for people that can't wipe their bum properly.
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HEY JACK r u talking bout Me, Steve N Louie ????
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maybe, do your undies smell?.
Do u even wear undies Dave? (might be a more apt question)
u do walk kinda funny......................
Stop distracting Steve, He really has some work to do!
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| posted on January 11th, 2011 at 09:33 PM |
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I think they were speed holes in the old rotors. I'm getting a similar brake setup for mine, probably overkill with the 1600 though!!! should look
nice under the boxter rims though
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 03:03 PM |
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Steve,
Its been 5 days and no update. I can only conclude that you are spending all your time on the car. Wish I could spend half a day on mine.
Looking forward to more photos.
Kev
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 11:08 PM |
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Hi
No photos yet, I've been busy. I have all the mudguards on and beaded, doors fitted and not finished off, fitted the subi wiring loom, ported the
exhaust manifolds and fitted the headers, fitted the intercooler and plumbback for the blow off valve, finished off the insulation on the inner
firewall, ran the morse accelerator cable through the chassis and Leigh came around today and helped me fit the front and back windows, started making
making a bracket to hold the master cylinder reservoirs in place, fitted the flex line to the clutch slave cylinder, then I had to go to work.
Also mucked around with the oil pressure gauge T piece, thanks for the advice Joel
Steve
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| posted on January 17th, 2011 at 09:07 PM |
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luv the colour steve...comin along too
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| posted on January 17th, 2011 at 10:21 PM |
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Hi
Thanks JVL.
Today I made up brackets for the radiator and inter cooler radiator, finished the bracket for the master cylinder reservoirs, started mounting the ECU
and various relays, ran the front to back coolant lines, mounted the Carter lift pump and did a solo bleed on the brakes and clutch, I got a good
pedal on the clutch and the brakes will need another bleed.
I went to Pirtek and got them to make a T and line to mount the oil pressure sender.
Steve
PS I forgot to say that I lined the engine bay with some house type insulation and covered it with XR6 type insulation which I bought from Repco
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