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| posted on November 29th, 2010 at 11:53 AM |
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mmm probably not, they are great on highbeam but the projectors cause too many shadows on lowbeam
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 11:46 AM |
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I made good use of being stuck at home thanks to another rainy day
I know, rainy day?? around here???...... GTFO
Can anyone guess?
Excuse the messy shed.
Well it's only been a whole year but I finally got that left rear guard I resprayed in feb last year on to replace the crumpled guard of doom.
Whenever I had guests over they were quite amused by the beetle guard sitting in my spare room.
Was the only place I could keep it where it wouldnt get scratched to shit.
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 12:11 PM |
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good work, love the upright white toolbox with stickers!
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 12:18 PM |
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You mean my beer fridge? 
You're right it is actually a toolbox these days, my real beer fridge is hiding on the other side of the bug.
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 12:40 PM |
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looking real good joel! Love the single exhaust and 67 (I think) Decklid!
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 08:14 PM |
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about time, coming to dubs by the pubpiefish dent free?
feeling the urge to roll your guards to lessen the scrubbing issues yet? 
and was the pic made too look wallpaper worthy on purpose or just happened that way?
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| posted on February 8th, 2011 at 09:40 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by STIDUB
was the pic made to look wallpaper worthy on purpose or just happened that way?
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Ditto, that lighting is either very flukey, or you had the big silver umbrellas and some lights shining into them.
Great shot either way though.
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 08:54 AM |
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wow youve done alot to this thing over the yrs. looking good man, hope ta seeya at dubs.
ill be in my girls new(ish) 68
[size=4] '59 or Kombi?....feeling confused [/size]
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 09:18 AM |
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I thought it was a pretty shitty pic actually.
maybe with a better back ground.
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posted by OMClarke
looking real good joel! Love the single exhaust and 67 (I think) Decklid!
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Whoa that's wierd that your the one that mentioned it.
It was a pic you took and posted a while back of that green subi bug that made me swap to the fibreglass valance and single tip.
I got the fibreglass valance 2 years ago when I started the conversion but I wasnt sure if I would like the look so I never fitted it.
After seeing that pic you took I thought I'd give it a go when I built my new exhaust last year.
Really happy with how it turned out
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 10:11 AM |
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valance changed hands a bit too....
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 10:42 AM |
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mustard is alive!!!!
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 01:44 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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mustard is alive!!!!
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hah x2
Yeah I think it looks 100 time better with a big single out the back. My mate's 2276T has a similar looking set-up and it just ads a little bit of
mystery to whats hidden underneath.
Also, IMO I think it just cleans the whole rear of the Elephant-light models up.
p.s. What year decklid is that?
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 07:43 PM |
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hellllllo!!!
that be a 68/69 lid.
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 09:05 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Craig S
mustard is alive!!!!
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Who??
Never heard of him 
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 09:30 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by OMClarke
Yeah I think it looks 100 time better with a big single out the back. My mate's 2276T has a similar looking set-up and it just ads a little bit of
mystery to whats hidden underneath.
Also, IMO I think it just cleans the whole rear of the Elephant-light models up.
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It only takes hearing my car for 2 secs to know whats in it
I love the bulgy EFI valance and single tip exhaust on late cars, like you said really cleans it up
Just wasn't sure if it was gonna work on mine but turned out fine
It's the way all the last fuel injected bugs in the US and japan were.
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| posted on February 10th, 2011 at 11:00 PM |
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Joel, you haven't changed wheels again have you? Those don't look like your Lite-7's
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| posted on February 11th, 2011 at 08:55 AM |
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That pic was taken a few weeks back, I just had to chuck the Boost-R's on for the pinky.
Front tyres on the lite-7s aren't worn to the wear blocks yet but not the most roadworthy tyres either
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| posted on February 12th, 2011 at 06:18 AM |
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Very nice bud, makes me wanna go
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| posted on February 19th, 2011 at 02:42 PM |
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I better win some frigging trophies tomorrow at dubs by the pub cos I've put in SO much effort
yes... I spent 10 mins washing it
I'd forgotten what it looked like clean
I 'ave come to clean ze bug.....
Well it is actually a huge effort, I don't normally wash my cars this time of year, it's just an exercise in futility.
Living out in sticks during summer means my cars all constantly look like I've driven through a locust swarm
damn bug guts sets like superglue
ANyway I'd be happy to receive the most number of stone chips award
Or; best polish job applied by a cat
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| posted on February 19th, 2011 at 04:30 PM |
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guess ill be seeing ya tomorrow then 
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| posted on February 19th, 2011 at 05:11 PM |
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nice work Joel. you need an old school bug screen!
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| posted on April 15th, 2011 at 11:29 AM |
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While I mope about the house with some painful holes in my head where my wisdom teeth used to reside heres some other stuff I can crap on about that
I've done to the bug I havent really bothered bringing up.
A few people have spotted I have yet another new set another new set of headlights, this makes set number 5 or 6
So let there be light.....
I think I mentioned a while back one of the LOL projectors copped a rock and once the glass breaks on sealed beam style mount lights the retainers
have nothing to hold them in with.
I just shoved the lucas inserts that came with the mounts in which worked ok but they're almost 20 years older than what the bug is and looked like
shit.
Plus the old curved shape lenses look rediculous on a Germanlook bug, makes it look like those people that can pop their eyeballs out of there
sockets.
So I did some shopping around for new lights.
I wanted to stay with the clear lense, prism reflector style lights.
Look around car parks, every car built in the last 10 years has this style of light, they just look really clean on the front of a modified bug, out
of place on a stocker though.
There is 100s of them availble on EBay, most look pretty as in pictures but are absolute rubbish in reality.
99% of them are plastic polycarbonate lenses that go yellow after 5 mins in the sun like modern cars that live outside, and also have plastic
polycarbonate reflectors which mean running UV cut bulbs or they melt and go yellow.
I ended up finding these ones from Autopal.
They have nice thick glass lenses with metal reflectors so I can run my 130/90w bulbs without melting them, a parker light fitting (most don't) that
actually uses modern T10 wedge bulbs not those crappy B9S bayonette bulbs like VW headlights
and they are proper RHD E-code headlights.
E-code has been around since stock VW headlights in the 60s, its that trapezoid shape on the right, it throws a beam up and to left to light up
reflective signs on the side of the road.
All the cheap nasty plastic ones don't have this and don't meet ADRs.
I was also getting the shits with not having a glovebox light, the I-bus connection for my Ipod is in my glovebox and is hard to find in the dark so I
stuck one of those LED strips in there.
I've got the switch from the subi glovebox I need to wire in so it only comes on when its opened.
I also wanted to do something about the crappy inadequate dash lighting.
I've always hated how poorly lit VW speedos are at night.
I tried BA7s LEDs in there but they lit it up worse than stock bulbs as LEDs are too directional.
I did keep all the bulbs out of the subi dash cluster which have these green frangers on them for an alien like green glow, and these seem to fit
nicely on BA7S bulbs
Still hopeless but atleast it had a cool green tinge.
Those that have speco gauges will know the backlighting bulb is moulded into a rubber plug and cant be replaced or swapped for an LED, but the green
frangers also fit those bulbs to, so they got the same treatment
Before and after lol
I decided a different approach to improve the speedo lighting was needed.
This is the dash cluster of my Laser, you can see why modern car clusters light up well, its because the numbers are translucent and the light shines
through them instead of just relying on the light reflecting around from 2 crappy 2w bulbs like a VW speedo does.
So I had Brent that made my old white face gauge make a new black one with white translucent numbers
And stuck one of those LED strips in the speedo
That's better
I also had him make it without the white ring around the center, just tidys it up abit.
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| posted on April 15th, 2011 at 12:02 PM |
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Joel, always the innovator. Can you tell us where you got those headlights from?
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| posted on April 15th, 2011 at 12:42 PM |
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Yep, link for the headlights please.
Gauges look the goods as well.
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| posted on April 15th, 2011 at 02:11 PM |
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Cheers guys,
I got the lights through Ringwood auto parts on ebay
this would be them
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/CRYSTAL-VISION-HALOGEN-HEADLIGHT-INSERT-KIT-BRAND-NEW-...
He also sells an original looking version as well that has fluted lenses like stock.
To fit them to a VW needs some sealed beam mounts out of some other car but they're easy to get as pretty much everything with 7" round headlights
uses them.
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| posted on April 16th, 2011 at 02:52 PM |
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Great work as always Joel. I always enjoy reading your little tech improvements.
This comes at a good time as the 'el Cheapo generic Narva headlights in my Baja have started to die. The chrome is peeling off the inside because
they have been full of water too many times while offroading.
Have been looking around to see what to get to replace them, I think these are the go
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| posted on April 16th, 2011 at 05:41 PM |
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Cheers Smiley,
These may do the same given time, hard to say but the quality seems pretty good especially for the price, I was actually pleasantly surprised by them
given the low cost.
I've done plenty of wet weather driving since they went in and no dramas or visible moisture inside yet.
the bulbs they come with could be junk, I didn't use them but normally a pair of 100/90w H4s are atleast $30 alone.
The only thing I would do with them is on the back there is a rubber boot that sits over the bulb more for dust proofing than water proofing but there
is 2 holes where the bulb shield/deflector thing clips in place.
It's under the the rubber boot but wouldn't hurt to smear some silicon over them just to prevent moisture getting in.
Hard to see the hole in pics as it's not that big.
water drops are all on the outside.
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| posted on April 16th, 2011 at 09:51 PM |
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Cheers Smiley,
These may do the same given time, hard to say but the quality seems pretty good especially for the price, I was actually pleasantly surprised by them
given the low cost.
I've done plenty of wet weather driving since they went in and no dramas or visible moisture inside yet.
the bulbs they come with could be junk, I didn't use them but normally a pair of 100/90w H4s are atleast $30 alone.
The only thing I would do with them is on the back there is a rubber boot that sits over the bulb more for dust proofing than water proofing but there
is 2 holes where the bulb shield/deflector thing clips in place.
It's under the the rubber boot but wouldn't hurt to smear some silicon over them just to prevent moisture getting in.
Hard to see the hole in pics as it's not that big.
water drops are all on the outside.
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Yeah, I think I would go to the effort to seal them better than the ones I have currently. And mine don't get wet from wet weather driving. I mean
they literally fill up with water while fording and the water level is over the headlights.
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| posted on April 17th, 2011 at 08:01 PM |
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MMM, just be liberal with the silicone and you should be right.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 09:44 PM |
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Just another quick question.
What do you get the LED strip lighting from? Jaycar or Old Dick Smith??
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