What have you got planed this winter for your car ?

[Mike Lawless]

Looks like my submission to this thread is in the past tense, as we began right after the last race here in California in November and pretty much worked straight though. I had planned well in advance and procured the big ticket items early in the year for this.

Here's the link.
http://home.comcast.net/~mlawless29/wkrswingtoirs.html

Almost finished, the goal is to make a TnT in late Feb, then on the March Meet in ealy March

[Black Sheep]

My own plans have gone a bit wronge too  not even looked at the car since november . Coz I went and got a Karmann Kab as a project and well y know 
Still gonna pull the motor before the summer and up things a bit 

[empicolector]

I am work on the wheels (fiting my empi5 spokes)
and need work on brake also
and some paint repair near door handle

[Zach Gomulka]

Looks like my submission to this thread is in the past tense, as we began right after the last race here in California in November and pretty much worked straight though. I had planned well in advance and procured the big ticket items early in the year for this.

Here's the link.
http://home.comcast.net/~mlawless29/wkrswingtoirs.html

Almost finished, the goal is to make a TnT in late Feb, then on the March Meet in ealy March

Great work, Mike. It's amazing to see how your car has evolved over the years. Are those 8" wheels with 8.5" slicks? I hope you'll have it at Phoenix March 28th, love to see it

[Mike Lawless]

Hey Zach
Yep. 8" wide wheels, with 8.5x26 M&Hs

Unfortunately, we won't be doing Phoenix this year. We have a date conflict with our West Coast  Hot Rod Association series opener. The PRA series has lost some of it's allure for us, so we're only doing 3 of those events this year. We will be at Bug In in May, showing off the new CB Performance "Strip Dominator" heads. Maybe if you make the journey, we can catch up then

[BeetleBug]

The season is over here in Norway and the mountains are covered with snow. My 67 is hanging in the air and my plans are;

- Fit some Vredestein Sprint classic 155/15 and 205/70 tires to some tired looking fuchs I recently bought.
- Narrow the front beam approx 2"
- Change the IDA and the MSD to a DTA S60 ECU
- Try to lower the rear just a little bit. Not happy with how the car handle
- Change the 2 Holley pumps to a Aeromotive A1000 and regulator
- Modify the tank
- Change fuel to E85
- Some minor interior work
- Some electricity work
- Open up the engine, change the cam and the lifters

If time allows it I will make a project thread.

Bestr rgs
BB

A few changes to my earlier reply. Nothing much though, a little bit of this and a little bit of that;

http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php/topic,18576.150.html

For those of you that is not so familiar with Norwegian;

http://translate.google.no/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php/topic,18576.msg206375/topicseen.html%23new&sl=no&tl=en

Not long before the season start!

[Zach Gomulka]

Hey Zach
Yep. 8" wide wheels, with 8.5x26 M&Hs

Unfortunately, we won't be doing Phoenix this year. We have a date conflict with our West Coast  Hot Rod Association series opener. The PRA series has lost some of it's allure for us, so we're only doing 3 of those events this year. We will be at Bug In in May, showing off the new CB Performance "Strip Dominator" heads. Maybe if you make the journey, we can catch up then

Looks really good! Same size wheel & tire combo I have planned for my '67
It's a shame about Phoenix/PRA, but I understand. Don't know if I'll be making it out for the Bug-In, but we'll see. Best of luck, take care!

[71CALRIPPER]

God i am sick of lists but its the best way to work through it all.

1. Fuel line plumbing
2. Oil Line plumbing
3. Engine fit
4. Gas Burner detail and fit.
5. Drive
Rob

[benssp]

God i am sick of lists but its the best way to work through it all.

1. Fuel line plumbing
2. Oil Line plumbing
3. Engine fit
4. Gas Burner detail and fit.
5. Drive
Rob

6. Sell

[71CALRIPPER]

7. Got to keep one, one day !

[splitblitz]

My plan is to get this car driveable. Hopefully I can make some test runs during late summer 2010. Two months later then promised I got the body delivered from the paintshop, now I just have to find the time to finnish this! The car is a '51 split on a '62 pan. Mendeola transmission and Beetle Bugs old 2386. This is a project that I have collected parts for for many years, and now It starts to look really good. If you want to check more pics you can check out my project blog at http://splitblitz.blogspot.com/

[henk]

that's gone be a real nice car when it's finished.

henk!!!

[BeetleBug]

WOW!!!!

Thanks for the updates splitblitz!

[Black Sheep]

Nice Split Blitz  I approve of the raised luggage panel  Is that colour Bordeaux red ? coz that the colour mine's supposed to be .
Look forward to seeing the finished item 

[splitblitz]

Thanks for the positive feedback! The colour was supposed to be chestnut  brown but the painter had some problems to find the correct receipt. Anyway, live it's more like dark, dark brown. Pretty close to chestnut (99%), but when I use flashlight in my small garage it looks more red on the pics. Anyway, I am really happy with the colour and think it looks great!

[Adele AW]

Were starting to come out of the winter now thank goodness..

However we have left to do:
Remove the panels that need re-painting and take them over to Kustom 101 tomorrow
Re-fit engine once Richie has finished with it
Re-wire for new stuff 

Hopefully ready to roll very soon.

Adele 

[BeetleBug]

The season is over here in Norway and the mountains are covered with snow. My 67 is hanging in the air and my plans are;

- Fit some Vredestein Sprint classic 155/15 and 205/70 tires to some tired looking fuchs I recently bought.
- Narrow the front beam approx 2"
- Change the IDA and the MSD to a DTA S60 ECU
- Try to lower the rear just a little bit. Not happy with how the car handle
- Change the 2 Holley pumps to a Aeromotive A1000 and regulator
- Modify the tank
- Change fuel to E85
- Some minor interior work
- Some electricity work
- Open up the engine, change the cam and the lifters

If time allows it I will make a project thread.

Bestr rgs
BB

Just to follow up my earlier post in this thread;

- Fit some Vredestein Sprint classic 155/15 and 205/70 tires to some tired looking fuchs I recently bought. DONE
- Narrow the front beam approx 2" DONE
- Change the IDA and the MSD to a DTA S60 ECU DONE
- Try to lower the rear just a little bit. Not happy with how the car handle DONE
- Change the 2 Holley pumps to a Aeromotive A1000 and regulatorDONE but instead I used a 255l Walbro pump in tank
- Modify the tank DONE
- Change fuel to E85 DONE
- Some minor interior work DONE
- Some electricity work DONE
- Open up the engine, change the cam and the lifters DONE, but I added some extra parts 

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Best rgs
BB

[71CALRIPPER]

Dude I have to say that is a really really nice Install !!!

[BeetleBug]

Dude I have to say that is a really really nice Install !!!

Thanks,

Well, the winter was long and cold 

[Black Sheep]

Very nice indeed 

[Neil Davies]

My updates:
Karmann cab - nothing! Left it well alone while I try to sort out the DVLA...
The '68 beetle is now MOT'd, the semi-seized 36DRLAs have been swapped for some 40DRLAs and the 1600 has really woken up a bit! I'm not driving it in it's current state though - the orange gel coat front wings clash horribly with the dark red body, and the white gelcoat rear wings and decklid, blue bonnet and black valcances just add to the effect! I think a 20ft paint job is in order...

[jr59]

Winter gone but parts are still coming from overseas!!
Finally we received the new heads for the new engine...
Thanks Pat !!

[Nico86]

BeelteBug : I love the look of your engine ! Got some pics with the 155/15 ?

[Wout]

My car is on the road again after 2 years so it was a good winter  , it look like crap but I'm happy it's rolling again 
I know it's not a callook but it was restored in the late 80ties so it's a bit vintage 
My karmann gonna be a real callooker I promise  .

Gr
Wout