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John, you've just bought The Bible! The California Look book by Keith Seume is the one book that changed my life, no joke. Virtually every member of my local VW club had at least one copy,and we all aspired to have hot VWs with that nose down stance. One lad had a nice standard '73 1200, red painted steels and a red stripe in the bumper - borrowed a copy off one of the other guys and fell in love with the white Race Shop '67. Three days later he turned up to the club with the front end lowered, 145 and 165 tyres on silver steels with black centres, no hubcaps, T-bars instead of bumpers, a load of racing stickers and 36 metres of pinstripe tape... I can see Tom starting a Beetle project for when he's 17!
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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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It's really interesting looking at different motorsport disciplines - I'm from a drag racing background and our cages require a bar between the b-post hoop at shoulder height, can be curved at the ends to allow the seat to be further back, and often have the harnesses mounted to it.
I do love this build though!
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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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Is Grizz's suggestion actually viable? Bring it to the UK, register it here then take it back to Germany once it has paperwork? Looks like a great car, and remarkable condition for its age.
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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 did the same repair on the passenger side of my wife's bus last year. I had a section cut from an '86 that we broke that was virtually rot free (nice bus except for the roof and gutters had rotted away due to a leaky high top) so split it down and let it in in pieces. Keep plugging away at it, you're doing a great job.
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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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Dec 30, 2018 19:28:57 GMT
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Putting gas in is going to be too obvious, isn't 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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Dec 29, 2018 19:39:45 GMT
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Not unless you're regularly going to see over 6500rpm! In over 23 years of Volkswagening I can only think of one car in the UK that had a fan explode. For racing, where you'll see high rpm, you'll drop the fan belt off anyway as it saps quite a lot of power. For going up the hill at the gathering take the belt off for the run, then refit it at the top.
Alternatively, wire up a switch with a little circuit to the generator to make it run like a motor off the battery (or even a tiny second one), so you haven't got the physical losses from the fan being driven by the crank. Use it like that for a race, then fit the belt and flip the switch for driving home.
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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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Dec 29, 2018 18:01:37 GMT
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John, just had a random thought about cam bearings - did you get double thrust bearings or stock? With your straight cut cam gears you haven't got the helix to keep the cam in place, so you need two bearings with thrust faces on them rather than just one.
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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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Dec 29, 2018 17:56:32 GMT
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I didn't know you were up today! I drove past the end of the road at least three times today too!
I haven't been in for years either - couple of mates used to swear by them though.
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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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Dec 29, 2018 12:54:44 GMT
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Looks like a Renegade to me!
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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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Aldon automotive in brieally hill just off the m5 Brierley Hill - Aldon is easy to miss if you don't know where it is, but as swampy says, its not far from the motorway. Nearest big town is Stourbridge. Just thinking out loud - is it a Facet-type pump you're after? One of the little independent places by my parents used to stock them, but not sure if they still do. www.roadrunnercarparts.co.uk
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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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Try autodoc. It's german but i use it from the Netherlands just fine. Wonderful, thanks for your reply. I'll have a look there 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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I assume that price is a whole driveshaft. CV joint itself will be common to a number of vehicles of the same era, surely? Nope, £388 for the whole shaft! The guy at the dealership said their hands are tied by what Fiat tells them the prices are, and that I may want to shop around. The 500L is the same underneath as the Grande Punto as far as I can work out, but not sure what else. I'm struggling to find anywhere that even list 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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Dec 28, 2018 20:01:08 GMT
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Agreed with darkspeed on keeping lifters to cam lobes on the 87. I remember breaking in a cam on a 2276 race motor on the way to Santa Pod. It had no cooling (same oil cooler block off as yours!) so we couldn't run it for 20 minutes in one go. Car strapped to the trailer, Stinger bolted to the car and we stopped at every motorway services from Wolverhampton to the Pod for five minutes of running...
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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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Dec 28, 2018 19:53:18 GMT
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Evening folks, apologies for a question about a modern, but I figured I'd probably get the right answers on here! SWMBO has a 63 plate Fiat 500L Trekking as her daily, and for the last few days I've noticed it making the tell-tale "tick tick tick" noise at low speed with a bit of steering lock on that suggests a CV joint is on its way out. So I wandered into the local Fiat dealer this afternoon for a quote - £233 inc VAT supplied only! Can't see them listed on GSF, ECP, Car Spares etc. and just after Crimbo I simply don't have the cash to chuck at it, especially as its needed a tyre a month for the last five months (yes, five!) Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might try to purchase one of these solid gold nuggets of unobtainium that's not going to require selling my first-born son (not that anyone would want him, a three year old with pre-bedtime tantrums is not an appealing thing) Thanking you in advance, Neil
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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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Dec 27, 2018 17:15:25 GMT
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Er, stick in an LS with twin turbos, panel it out and make up some number plates? It looks far too much fun to not drive as often as possible!
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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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Nuttier than squirrel poop. Love it. Such a shame its no longer in use.
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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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Dec 26, 2018 23:12:21 GMT
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To stop the local cats going into my parents garden and relieving themselves, every few months I drop off a bag of litter from my own cats. Remove the solids, then liberally sprinkle the used woodchip in the bottom of the flower beds and jobs a goodun!
Loving the seat and bugs JB. I built a tall stool from a Beetle flywheel, crank and rodsa couple of years ago, looked good and comfy 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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Dec 26, 2018 22:57:44 GMT
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On our unit we use a patio heater with the regulator changed for a regular one. Keeps the place warm enough to work in but the umbrella thing on the top stops the heat from just escaping straight up.
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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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Dec 17, 2018 18:48:06 GMT
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Good idea. Take the clutch too, apparently they can wear in a slight cone. Been thinking about the cam - I was always told that an Fk10 works well with stock gears in a beetle but you've got the lighter weight of the Fugitive. Again, the Lounge would be able to advise.
Edit: seen you've signed up over there! Nowhere near the traffic as this place, but some properly knowledgeable folks on there.
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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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With regards to the flywheel, the rotating assembly is balanced by starting with the crank, then adding the flywheel, then the clutch cover, then the end pulley, so it's quite tricky to just change the flywheel. Pop over to the Cal-Look Lounge and post the picture in their technical section - there's likely to be a few more people on there who've seen that sort of discoloration. They may just say that it needs re-facing and be done with 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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