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Sept 28, 2019 19:39:58 GMT
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I saw those and likey very much. I suspect they're the wrong kind of T2 fitment though Beryl flavour T2s are some weird Audi/Mercedes PCD whereas earlier T2s are wide 5 mahoosive PCD. I think? '67 to '70, possibly early '71 are 5 X 205 same as splits. '71 to '79 are 5 X 112, with 12mm studs, I think. Beryl will be 5 X 112 with 14mm studs and nuts, I believe. That could be tosh though. The split and early Bay bit is right, and the T25 bit is right too. I've had both, but never had a late bay so although I know the pcd is right, I'm not sure on the stud diameter. However! By 1968 the Beetle had gone to 14mm bolts so it would seem logical that the bay would too, especially as it changed from the early pcd after the Beetle went to 14mm. I have got a vague recollection about the early bay being 14mm but the pre-67 Beetles being 12mm, but I might be totally mis-remembering that!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 27, 2019 17:45:17 GMT
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I like your rev counter, it's really nice. Subtle, even. Me too. I'd be happy looking at that thing strutting its stuff. As long as there wasn't a flat four on the other end! Ooh, y'can really go off someone! 👀
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 21, 2019 8:12:42 GMT
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Hmm. If its at Heritage, then it moves. If it moves, then it drives. If it drives, it has an engine...
Soooo, what's it like?!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 20, 2019 16:08:16 GMT
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Indicators are easy, just choose a late '03 bumper - I think it's 1974-on part. The indicator units themselves are mk1 Golf if I remember correctly.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 14, 2019 16:45:04 GMT
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HoTWire - was the like for perfect timing or the Dancing Grannies? Enquiring minds etc... 😉
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 14, 2019 16:43:12 GMT
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I'm seriously thinking about a little van for my next daily driver, but the one thing that's put me off is that I don't think I can take them into my local council tip without a permit. One was behind me in the queue today and the driver got a proper grilling from the chap on the gate. He did get in but I saw paperwork being shown.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 14, 2019 8:10:35 GMT
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I'd agree with keeping hold of the car - I lost a '61 Beetle that went into an insurance storage yard. Ended up having to try buy it back at auction, which I didn't get, and to add insult to injury, the other side of the car got stoved in while it was in the yard!
They did pay out the agreed value though, minus the excess even though it wasn't my fault, so I ended up £600 up on what I'd paid 6 months previous.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 13, 2019 23:25:00 GMT
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I'm just home after dinner with The Dancing Grannies (seriously, Google them!) and turned YouTube on - Tom Bailey was the third car down the track. Perfect timing or what?!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 13, 2019 23:15:51 GMT
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I really like the Slayer/Bangles and Slayer/Wham combinations, and the Black Sabbath/Temptations one really works for me too. Stevie Wonder/Guns N' Roses is also awesome.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 13, 2019 23:09:50 GMT
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He's just done it! 5.998 at 250.46mph after driving 760 miles! Amazing.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 12, 2019 19:45:57 GMT
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I'd like to lower one. They look to be generally really well built, and although the wheels don't totally offend me, I'd like to see them tucked right up inside the body - tubs for diameter, not just for width!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 12, 2019 17:26:33 GMT
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Proper shame about Richies Cabriolet though.... That thing is a legend too :/ It will return. Richie has owned it for getting on for 25 years, and he was talking about bringing it home at the end of this season. 9.98 in testing on Sunday then *pop*. Gutting as it is, it could have been so much worse, and I think Richie and Jo are supporting their friend Steve Dalton who's running the blue '68 Beetle in the mid 10s.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 11, 2019 5:12:51 GMT
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That seam is always a place where filler cracks - if you can, treat yourself to a lead loading kit, I now lead that seam then a thin skim of bondo for final shaping, and I've not had any problems with cracking since.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 8, 2019 10:55:19 GMT
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 7, 2019 19:59:18 GMT
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Grizz, I'd love it but I just can't at the moment. Just agreed the sale of our house and taken a 3k drop under our bottom limit so we didn't lose the one we've bought, so that's my toy budget gone! I'd seriously consider it in 12 months time when we're settled and know how our outgoings will change. I'll have to persuade my better half that she doesn't really need a new kitchen...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Yep, water truck for me, then go and re-read the Model AA with Disco diesel thread, and sulk for days about why I can't have it!
How much is it and where is it?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Nothing wrong with that method of shortening the frame! I watched one of the Motor Trend teams on YouTube (may have been Roadkill Garage?) shorten a long-bed Chevy C10 and it used a very similar system. For chassis swaps you might want to check out grenade on here - he's done numerous projects and would probably have some experience-based advice for you! Keep going!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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John, you're so right! I'm kind of limiting the mods to make it as saleable as possible - when it's finished however far in the future it'll need to be sold and I've got to break even on it so even the colour choice will need to be suitable for Cal Look, German Look, Resto Cal etc. It will stay dechromed, because that suits the first two styles, and it's easier to add trim than take it away after paint. Front suspension has a lowered beam and disc brakes, but I'm not putting new discs on until I know what stud pattern the alloys will be. I'd like Fuchs because they work with everything, but 914 2-litre wheels, Pedrinis, Mahle baby burners all look good. Even Empi 8-spokes would work if they're detailed right. The thoughts on IRS brackets are that we may as well do it now so that if Porsche bits turn up I can use them, if not it's easy to get a stock swing axle 'box, but the brackets need to be in before the body is put on. Interior is where its going to be the biggest change from stock, with Recaro front seats and possibly the rear one deleted and panelled over. I'd love to stick a 2332 in it, but I've already got most of a 15-second 1641,which may or my not be fuel injected, depending on how long everything else takes to build! I'm just really excited to be back at school and getting back into this project!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 6, 2019 19:16:27 GMT
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Yes, new school year, so progress will resume!
I've been meeting the new students and getting to grips with new curriculum (we've moved away from an exam and gone coursework only), and planning out what I want to do this year. I've put my orders in for some more tools so as soon as they turn up its all systems go. Year 11 are going to work on the floor pan. One side is trimmed down and virtually ready to fit, the other side still needs cutting to fit. There are a couple of small repairs to do to the frame head and rear crossmembers, but I need the power file to get in to the corners, the air punch to put the holes in the pan edges and the welding gas refilling before we can weld it all in! Once each group have done a side, we'll get some paint on it and start on the body. Aiming for October half term for the pan.
Of course, I keep having thoughts about converting to IRS while the body is off... Hmmm!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Sept 2, 2019 17:47:53 GMT
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I've had two Fabias, they're great little runarounds. Reliability and Beetles? It can be done, but depends how much you've got to spend. We'll assume the shell and floor pan are sound, and other than the narrowed beam (which you can't really do on an '03, well, not easily!) all your ideas from your original post sound good, especially the throttle bodies and rewiring!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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