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Jul 28, 2018 23:34:48 GMT
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You must know Dude as well then - he co-drives the Salzburg car with Jim and also helps out at some of the shows with him! His cal look '59 ragtop won Best of Show at Volksworld a couple of years ago. The 1904 is a nice collection of parts too, and I suppose having a bigger motor in the oval means that you won't need to go nuts in the Ghia!
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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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Jul 28, 2018 19:11:28 GMT
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As guz said, a 1303s should have discs and a 1303 should have drums. The s should also be 1600cc as opposed to 1300cc, and will also have the more desirable 3.88:1 ring and pinion. If you are interested, I have a mint 1303 floorpan in storage that I know I'm never going to use. Framehead, pan halves etc are all immaculate. Pm if you want to know more. Having said that, personally I don't think I'd bother with this car as anything other than a donor car for an incomplete resto project. Not only is it rotten pretty much everywhere so far, it also looks to have been repaired badly in places too. Once you've priced up all four quarter panels, both heater channels, both rear crossmembers, both door posts, four wings and two doors, you've probably exceeded the value of the vehicle and you haven't even got paint, interior or mechanical yet! I've restored some real dogs but that one needs a big bottle of brave pills!
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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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There's not a lot of parts that are for both cars, more a case of bits that fit! 356 brakes go on, for example, but you need everything. Engines may be a flat four in both, but nothing interchanges easily.
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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 fact, look at drag race VW alternator and vacuum pump set ups. Jay Cee do them, and I think CB Performance do 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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My dad wears varifocals and while he has no problem welding, when we were building my kitchen extension we found that one wall bowed out towards to top left! I could see it but dad couldn't until he took his specs off... had to redo the top 3 courses of breezeblocks!
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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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Been giving this a lot of thought! Use stock tinwear (plus the type 4 cooler mod I mentioned earlier) and fan, BUT swap the alternator/generator for a solid shaft driven by the standard fanbelt - obviously this will need you to make a new alternator tower - which could even be "liberated" from an old generator to keep the woodruff key slot, threaded ends etc.. On the shaft have a couple of pulley wheels appropriately sized to drive your modern alternator and a/c pump, which you position in the space cleared by losing the dizzy and fuel pump when you swap to EFI. You should still have space to run a full turbo system too. Big advantage is that you don't need to fabricate loads of tinwear, no need to chop the bus around too much, and it'll use basically standard parts (other than the pulley shaft).
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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've had a hairline crack in one - caused a misfire once warmed up that took me ages to find. Managed to crack the cylinder head first...
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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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Amazing! Where do you actually find these things? Just got to keep your eyes open 😃 Keeping your eyes open is only part of it! Jb's thought process is to then ignore what it was originally designed to do, make some special tooling, use the special tooling to make pieces that were never supposed to fit, fit, then make a part to solve a problem that most of us didn't even know existed , and then post it on here to distract from the fact that the Mazda still isn't done...
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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 thought it was Brian the robot from the confused.com adverts...
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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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peteh1969, yes it's a proper curriculum with a qualification at the end. It's the ABC awarding body, exactly what level I find out next week when I do my handover day. Darkspeed , the IMI are really good as they prepare students for the industry as well as the knowledge of the vehicles. Went on a really interesting course at Mercedes Benz a few years ago that they ran, with a good chunk about apprenticeships. The kids I'll be with have been taken out of mainstream schools so may respond best to short sharp tasks with hands on experience. I will be doing thread of the week tho, so this one will be featured a few times...
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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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360 is really nice, lots of options for ways of modelling. Are you a D&T teacher Neil [sorry for the thread invasion Darkspeed] I am indeed, 16 years of it. Moving to a PRU to teach Motor Vehicle Tech in September - quite a change! Back onto CAD, a lot of schools use 2D Design from Techsoft, as it outputs to laser cutters, plotters, CNC routers etc and is really simple to use. Car-wise, I've made vinyl stickers, cabinet pieces for the units for my wife's bus, all sorts! I even print onto paper to make templates to glue down and cut out of steel if I know I need reasonable accuracy.
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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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google sketchup is free, easy to learn and can do 3d reasonably well. We use solidworks for most things, but that's too much money unless you are using it commercially We get the kids at school to do Sketchup as their intro to 3d CAD, then we've just started with AutoDesk Fusion 360. Will do pretty much everything Solidworks can (output to dxf and stl), and is a free download, much to the disgust of our new director of design...
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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 should work! The oil system on my 2007 (78 x 90.5) motor does much the same - out of the pump cover, through the filter and back into the case. You do have to modify the lower pulley tin a little bit. I'm on a stock doghouse cooler, but it's a higher compression carb'd motor. Have you considered a Porsche fan conversion? The good ones have all the vanes in there, the alternator is better and there would be room for the a/c compressor too. Forced induction generates heat, so the nice thing about turbos is that you can move them out of the engine bay and into the airflow, maye one under each corner? On a slightly less related note, one of the people I've known online for many years is Jim Ratto. He's active over on the Cal Look Lounge, but he's got a lot of really good info on facebook. It even tempts me to join up... m.facebook.com/goodbetterbestautoparts/photos_stream?tab=photos_albums
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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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Now it makes sense! 82 x 90.5 should be a good solid base, and supercharger or turbo/efi should help it along quite nicely. Re-designing the tin will be quite a task - there's a chap in the States called Jake Raby who's done loads of testing on fan shroud designs - he used to have lots of info about comparison testing on his website.
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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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Basically what ChasR said, but reading through your first post I see that you want to do away with the stock oil cooler? I like the idea of the external cooler but I'd have that as an additional one. A better modification would be to use the Type 4 cooler, as found on late bays and aircooled Type 25s. These look very similar to the stock doghouse cooler but are a row wider. This obviously means that the tins that fix to the back of the fanshroud need a strip letting in. This will give you the same cooling as a later, heavier bus. What is the overall spec of the motor, and what do you want it to do? Cross Africa or just weekend cruising to the shows?
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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 really like this but I'm deliberately NOT showing it to my wife because I know full well it's exactly what she wants!
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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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Who needs a guard on their grinder? I'm not feeding the trolls, honest!Me, I'm properly clumsy! I did manage to slap myself in the chest with an angle grinder with a flapwheel once! Fortunately it hit me flat on, not edge on, so it just wadded up my t-shirt and jammed... lucky!
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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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Jun 30, 2018 19:59:18 GMT
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Epic build and I've only read the first page. Is it going to be road legal? Unfortunately it seems that it'll be a race only toy, however I don't think it'd be too difficult to IVA something similar. It probably already passes most of the test from factory, as from the seats forward its largely unchanged.
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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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Jun 30, 2018 19:31:16 GMT
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Did I have an air driven cutoff tool? So I headed out and found some stuff.... All the gear, no idea. Also, having the right lodgers, helps. 40, 80,120 grit flap discs, 1mm cutting discs and thick grinding discs brought to add to my collection of tools, only problem is that they are 230mm discs, there goes the guard on my 115mm grinder for the flap discs, not the grinding or cutting discs. Hopefully by Saturday or Sunday I will be back on the welder. Thanks for all the feedback and sharing Guys. Much appreciated. I think I've got most of that stuff! Handy hint with the bigger flapwheels - modify a guard. My dad and I found we'd got enough old ones to chop a guard up and stretch it out. Just cut the outside off, weld a selection of bits to space it out then weld it back on 15mm further away than its original position. Not pretty, but it works!
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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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Jun 19, 2018 20:22:54 GMT
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neildavies , I have seen quite a few VW cars behind the shops not been looking recently but there was a mk2 golf about a lot, I think my mate had a camper stored in one of the garages for a while. About 15 years ago me and my mates had six of the 12 garages to fill with VWs! I'd got my drag Beetle plus another one full of parts, one mate had a '61 RHD Karmann Ghia in there, another mate had loads of stuff including a '51 Barndoor 15-window bus (apparently the only one in existence) and a '67 squareback. The police turned up one night at about 3am when we were putting the old Outrage Speedster drag car in one of the garages after Bug Jam! Andrew, sorry about the thread hi-jack! Plan out what you need to do to the car. Personally I'd wash it off first, then remove the bumpers, wings and running boards (slowly, lots of plusgas on the bolts!) and thoroughly clean under the arches and the floorpan. Pressure wash it or steam clean it. Get rid of as much of the loose crispy undersea and paint as possible, then work out your welding repairs. It looks really unmolested so you should be able to work out how they were built, which is the best way of working out how to repair them. Plenty of photos will help.
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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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