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 1303Steve
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| posted on January 17th, 2011 at 10:23 PM |
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mirror photos
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Aussie Dubbin
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| posted on January 17th, 2011 at 10:24 PM |
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Photos pls
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1303Steve
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| posted on January 17th, 2011 at 10:32 PM |
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Hi
I posted them, cant you see them? Got me worried now.
Steve
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ricola
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| posted on January 18th, 2011 at 04:13 AM |
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Coming on nicely Steve... Any reason why you didn't flip the coolant manifold?
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| posted on January 18th, 2011 at 05:44 AM |
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.......keep going 
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| posted on January 18th, 2011 at 10:16 PM |
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looking good Steve, wheels and guards set it off nicely, can't wait to see the whaletail on......
and the mirrors are sweet....
1971 karmann ghia Cabrio - Cruising 
1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust 
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| posted on January 19th, 2011 at 05:44 PM |
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Hey Steve,
Love to see another suby beast coming together....looks awesome.
Just a quick question..does your kafer cup style brace between the rear shocks get in the way of your dump pipe from the turbo.
I made my own bracing around the exhaust....just curious!
Cannot wait to get all of us together when your done for a cruise.
Matt
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| posted on January 19th, 2011 at 06:46 PM |
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Hi Matt
The car is over at Westis now having the exhaust done, the cross bar shouldn't get in the way.
I cant wait to drive this thing, a get together would be great.
Steve
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| posted on January 19th, 2011 at 06:47 PM |
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How long has it been Steve??
7 years??
PS
LOVE the colour
Futue te ipsum!!!
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1303Steve
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| posted on January 19th, 2011 at 10:35 PM |
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Hi Barry
The colour sort of divides opinions.
I picked it up from V Force in April 2003 it then sat in a friends shed at Picton until September 2004.
Its been a journey, built another bug for my son and I also suffered from Vertigo on and off for a few years, this has now been fixed.
Once I get the bug to a certain point soon, things will ease off a bit, I have really neglected some stuff around the house for the last few months,
the plan is house stuff in the day and car stuff only at night.
Steve
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 04:42 PM |
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Hi
Ricola, I didn't see the need to reverse the coolant manifold, most other conversions I've seen down here haven't bothered either, just one less
thing that is modified.
Brad (aka Westi) from Westside Mufflers has been doing the exhaust and coolant lines.
It is all 3 inch stainless, there is a separate waste gate exit on the dump pipe, a high flow cat, a hotdog muffler and 3 inch dual bore muffler that
Brad has welded a 180 degree end on, so the gases flow in one end, do a U turn and come out the same side of the muffler as the inlet.
Steve
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 04:44 PM |
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more exhaust photos
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 05:00 PM |
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Fantastic, like all the others I cant wait to see her up and running.
I drove past Westi's place today and saw the car up on the hoist in the corner and even at a distance, I thought 'Wow that looks F##ken great'.
I'm talking about the car overall, not just the great work done by Brad.
Doing a great job Steve and I'm sure all the hard work (and money) will be worth it when you first put her in gear and go for a drive.
Kev
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 05:40 PM |
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nice and neat.
not like mine.
I know its a bit tricky to fit a exhaust pipe in the back of a bug and make sure it don't hit the drive shaft when the suspension travels up and
down & still be able to get spark plugs out.
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 10:11 PM |
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great work to get it to this point are you thinking of a first official drive some time soon or still too far away
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| posted on January 21st, 2011 at 06:48 PM |
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Christ, Westi should start selling admission tickets.
I hear even your welding teacher stuck his head in for a gander !!!
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 10:31 AM |
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awesome work man, keep it up! get a video when its running
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 12:32 PM |
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awesome work man, keep it up! get a video when its running
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuLq_dGJ8Y
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 12:45 PM |
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sweet...tick tock, tick tock...keep going!
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 02:29 PM |
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PRETTY
good to see, keep at it
so when will it be on the road
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1303Steve
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 11:24 PM |
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Hi Rose
It will be on trailer tomorrow going up the F3. I'm not sure when it will be done completely, soon I hope.
I cranked the motor with no ECU power to get oil pressure, it then started straight up and just sat there an idled beautifully, hats off to Mr Subaru
and Al up in Qld for the loom work.
I only had one drama, a hose that I thought was breather turned out to be a coolant hose, so I spilled a bit of coolant.
The cooling system bled really well, having an outlet on the top of the radiator really helped I think.
Steve
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| posted on January 25th, 2011 at 01:40 AM |
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that`s good |
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| posted on January 25th, 2011 at 04:10 AM |
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That engine is running beautifully smooth!
Nice work!
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| posted on January 25th, 2011 at 06:57 AM |
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Nice going Steve 
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 12:04 AM |
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if i had a dollar for each time i was asked at work today if the orange subie beetle on youtube was mine... id have $5 haha, pretty jealous, might
have to spend tomorrow on mine... nice work steve, and dave for posting the vid 
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1303Steve
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 12:41 AM |
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Hi
Just came in from the shed, another big night.
I have to do a few things before he will pass it, he's happy so far, the rear end just kept getting lower every time I put something on the car, I
have reset it again, 3rd time lucky I hope. It looks a whisker too high but I have the 944 spring plates set on full high so I have a bit of
adjustment top play with.
He did a noise test it was 99 dB, should be 96 dB, no air cleaner and no engine lid probably made it worse, I've also fitted a special flange gasket.
I really thought that it would be OK noise wise as all I can hear is the fan belt.
The motor runs OK without the MAF sensor hooked up, I probably have a shopping list of error codes by now.
The G50 ratios combined with a heavy KEP clutch are not very good for getting the car onto the trailer.
Off to bed now, its 1.40 am here, another big day today then I have to go to work at 3 pm.
Thanks for the encouragement guys.
Steve
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 09:43 AM |
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Steve, although there are a few little things to fix it will be better in the long run as you will know that it is all good and if you every get
pulled over by those bastard coppers that you can just smile and tell them that it is all legal.
Hope you enjoy your day in the city and what a bummer having to go to work after all that 
Keep up the good work and the updates for us followers, Kev.
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| posted on January 30th, 2011 at 08:04 PM |
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hey how did you go wasn't last Friday d day for the engineer?
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| posted on January 31st, 2011 at 02:43 PM |
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Hi
Car was passed today, I need to finish of a few things for a blue slip, then rego.
Steve
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| posted on January 31st, 2011 at 02:59 PM |
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Congratu-bloody-lations Steve
Cheers, Greg
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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