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I know this might seem like a complete thread hijack, but given the title it's probably the best place to put it! On Wednesday at school we received an email from the supplier of the Bendpak 2 post lift in my workshop, telling us to stop using it immediately. It would seem that there is a problem with the locking devices on the arms, requiring one component on each arm to be replaced. Without that change there is the risk of the arms moving and letting the car fall - all this had come from an investigation into the death of a mechanic. Why am I putting this up here? Well our lift was made in October 2013, the HSE issued their bulletin in late November 2018 but we didn't know until this week, so it stands a chance that other users may not be aware, just like we weren't. We're getting the repairs done on Monday, and it is an easy thing to do, so please check your lifts! www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/bendpak-two-post-vehicle-lifts.htm
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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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Nick, I know what you mean about the rust, but it's really not that bad! The worst bit is the bent stuff at the front - I'd much rather repair rust for the first time than a bent or bodged car. This one has all three! My deputy head is really enjoying watching the build even though he can't quite believe the work needed, and he has found the money for it so far...
Simes, one of our lads has come from London and the stories he tells are something else. You have my admiration teaching down there! Nice 205 in your avatar - the hair and beauty teacher at my place has got one, fully stripped out and caged. I'm working on getting her to bring it to the retro show at the Pod in June!
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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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Week 5 is over and done with. One more to go before half term, and I'm determined to see a big change when I get back. Floorpan half one is gone and two is coming out on Monday. Then we'll rattle the last strips off with the air chisel and get it away for blasting. New pan halves have been ordered today, thanks to Andy at www.vwheritage.com and horrido on here for making the initial contact. Anyway, what you really want is pictures, so here we go... Roughly chopped out Spot the daylight where there should be a weld! And when you're told to check under the back seat for rust, you don't want to find this!
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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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Hi Nick, I think we said a while back about engine options (although to be fair, it could have been Adam who I spoke to!) and I recommended big and unstressed. If you can stretch to a stroker crank, then do. If not, a 1776 (or 1914, just a different set of pistons and barrels) would be fine. A pair of 40 IDFs or DRLAs would be ideal, keep the cam sensible (Engle 110) and lighten the flywheel a bit. Stock valves size will be fine but make sure you match porting the heads to the intake manifolds. Full flow oil filtration will be a good idea too. You might look into the Scat engine kits? Gearbox will be fine for now, but look out for a 1500 or GT beetle gearbox if you're going to be using it for extended periods on the motorway, but for little blasts the 1200/1300 ratio one will be fine. It's what I've got in mine!
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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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I know how the salad bowl works! You wash the lettuce, then chuck it in the bowl,switch it on then it ultrasonically shakes the water off? No-one likes soggy sandwiches from damp salad...
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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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Shut the door, forget about it, wonder why it's rotten by the next time you go and look at it! Air movement is good, so windows open is a must. I wouldn't take the wheels off, but jacked up is a good idea, even if it's just a house brick shoved under the suspension so when the tyres go flat the cars whole weight isn't on them. Big thing for me is put it away dry. If it rains on the day you wanted to get it indoors, leave it and do it again the next day. I've seen rust bubbles on brake backing plates that were in the shape of the water droplets from putting a car away wet.
A battery smart charger is a worthwhile tool too.
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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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In recent years, I was very impressed with the Peugeot 2 door bubble roof coupe, the RCZ IIRC? And the 8c from Alfa. I love also the shape of the newer Audi rs6, but I think it's handsome and aggressive rather than beautiful. Every time I see one of those Peugeot coupes I see VW Karmann Ghia, which in my slightly biased opinion is one of the most beautiful cars ever made full stop. Not so sure that the RCZ is beautiful, but the influence is there. Personally there's not much that I can think of that I'd consider a beautiful modern, but estates usually look better than the saloon version - the Mercedes being a prime example.
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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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did ye show the students the pics of tinys beetle Only a couple of them on my phone - forums (including this one!) are blocked by the school firewall. They thought it was great, and it's really funny how many of them go and have a site in the orange one and just pretend to drive it! Doing my bit to get the youth of today into the cars of yesterday!
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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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If it's been straightened, and the owner did say he'd got a young family if I remember right, I suspect it's sat in a garage covered in kids toys and gardening stuff waiting for the right time to come back. My dad's Frogeye has been in that state since 1989. It's being moved over to our unit next week!
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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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Great work so far and looking forward to end result . Moving a lot quicker then my restoration. Thank you very much! It isn't essential to have a workshop as well equipped as mine, but it certainly helps! If it was just me it would be so much quicker, but teaching the kids what to do does get in the way somewhat... Motivation for me comes from certain students who really want to crack on with the rebuild, and my head and deputy are also keen for it to keep progressing; it is the school that's paying for it after all! On a random aside, I think I know your car! Are you over Stourport way, painted it in red oxide about 3 years ago?
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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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Very cool car, although I think I'd go for a 1960's colour like beige rather than '70's orange. How about redrilling the hubs to 5x130 Porsche pattern and going for a set of the 5.5j 15" repro Cosmics that are available now?
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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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Week five! Not a lot happening so far this week - well, not worth photographing anyway. And even if there was, I dropped my phone on Friday stopping a fight, so I've not taken any this week on my old clunker. We have had one group out on a trip to a training provider about automotive apprenticeships, which was exciting, another have done the discs and pads on the front of my wife's daily, we've had one Year 10 lad being the only student to attend either of his groups lessons this week (yes, really!) and the other Year 10 group had no-one at all yesterday! Plan for tomorrow is to slacken off all the bolts on the floorpan (beam and gearbox) and maybe even get the pan halves cut out. We'll see how that goes... Was thinking how jealous of your job I was, so thanks for posting this (and sorry to hear from your perspective) My own fault really, shouldn't have had it in my shirt pocket! The lad concerned instantly calmed down and became very apologetic, even offered to pay for the damage, but I don't bother with expensive phones because I am so ham fisted with them. Broke the last one getting out of my wife's T25, and the one before that dropping it through the screen of my tablet... I have to say that I've really enjoyed many of the past 16 years of teaching, but I regularly have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming with this job. I'm incredibly lucky to have found it - I work with amazing staff and on the whole the students are awesome too, they just need a bit of extra time, attention and encouragement.
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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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i cut the pans 1 out from the spine right around then use air chisel to rip along the spine busting the spot welds , safer less time more fun Yep, that's what I do too. Less chance of damaging the spine as well, although if they're original pans like these are, I often thin the left over piece down with the grinder to help the spot welds pop free.
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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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Week five! Not a lot happening so far this week - well, not worth photographing anyway. And even if there was, I dropped my phone on Friday stopping a fight, so I've not taken any this week on my old clunker. We have had one group out on a trip to a training provider about automotive apprenticeships, which was exciting, another have done the discs and pads on the front of my wife's daily, we've had one Year 10 lad being the only student to attend either of his groups lessons this week (yes, really!) and the other Year 10 group had no-one at all yesterday! Plan for tomorrow is to slacken off all the bolts on the floorpan (beam and gearbox) and maybe even get the pan halves cut out. We'll see how that goes...
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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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Anyone want a set of 15" Porsche teleidails with nearly new tyres and 5x100 to Porsche adapters? 🤣 I'll take them! You pay me £25, deliver them and fit them to my car, and I'll complain when I've worn the tyres out in 2 years time. Deal? Sorry, couldn't help 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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We used to run our old diesel VW T4 on veg oil - when the local cash and carry was doing 20l for £15 and diesel was over £1.40/l at the pumps it made it very economical. Do you reckon these little heaters will run on veg (or a veg/petrol mix like I used to use in cold weather). Taking that thought further, can you legally run these on red diesel?
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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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Beetle build? I'm in! I've had somewhere in the region of 15 Beetles but never a 1303 (well, I had a 1303 floorpan once, just not the shell for it...)
1303's respond well to German Look tricks so there is a lot of info out there if you want it. From your description of what you want I'd go for drums and discs redrilled to Porsche pattern then bolt up a set of 17's - I like the twists off a 911, but BBS style lattice spokes are available. Modern version of the factory Yellow and Black Racer special edition! As the others have already said you're already on IRS on the back and struts on the front. I'm pretty sure that you can get slimline lowered struts for the front, and the back is just adjustment on the torsion bars - I'd get the wheels and tyres sorted first and build it around that. Lots of Porsche bits fit the back end too.
Not sure where you are in Cornwall, but Matt Keene (ex-Volksworld tech ed) has his wokshop Airkraft in St Agnes.
Welcome to the aicooled side - you'll never leave...
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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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Will do, looks like a great 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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Jan 31, 2019 21:06:22 GMT
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Just found this and immediately bookmarked it. A good resto thread that transcends most other because its kids doing it.....I'm in. Thank you very much, that means a huge amount to me and to the students. With four different groups working on it for two 1hr 40min sessions every week you'd think that progress would be swift, but these aren't your regular schoolkids! That said, my year 11 group this morning (two lads, plus me and my teaching assistant!) managed to get quite a lot done - pedal box out, master cylinder off, rear hub nuts off, rear drums off, handbrake cables disconnected and all of the bolts on the back end wire brushed and soaked in WD40. That's a great lesson for them, and I'm really proud. In less good news, the automotive archaeology continues with the shell so that we can send our parts list to the generous folks at www.vwheritage.com - we knew the car had been hit in the front at some point, but it looks like it was a much harder impact than first thought, as the drivers side quarter panel has been replaced. It now makes sense why the fuel filler flap area has both a cable release and a finger notch! Unfortunately this quarter is both rusty and badly fitted, so thats a bigger repair than I'd hoped, but it just another challenge and a skill for the kids to learn. Photos of the gaps where there should be welds and the bent top of the bulkhead tomorrow!
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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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Jan 31, 2019 20:55:04 GMT
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Rob, you've got PM! Cheers mate!
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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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