The Cal-look Lounge

OK so the season's nearly over , what's the plan for your car over the winter ?

Personally Im going to do a partial strip down consisting of , welding up my trim hole's , taking my doors to bits and re-skinning them  :o
going over the bodywork and tidying where necessary . cutting in some of Hooky's side access panels and a new lower fire wall section { 25hp bit don't fit too well to 2165  ::) }
Then Im hoping to finish things off inside with a carpet set I picked up at EBI , fit my door cards and back seat .
Going to go over the dash too , with a new panel " more gauge's " and line out my glove boxes .
Should keep me busy , plan is to have a near completed looking car by the spring , hope it don't get too cold  ;)

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

i need to:

install hookys side access panels
get caliper brackets made for my spindle mounts
get the body back on the pan
mount and fit either my Eelco or p51 mustang anti-icing fuel tank ??
get the gauges etc wired in

then i think it's about ready to get the engine sorted :)

nothing, i know it will be to cold!

It looks like I am working every Saturday between now and March to try and get my Yr11's though their Exams.  Hopefully get some time in February Half term.  The its bleed the brakes, tune the engine, finish the electrics, MOT!

Keep on driving it, maybe make the wipers work, redo all the rubber in the doors and put on the new door panels.

Heres my list

new oil lines and refit the oil cooler with fan.
tidy the wiring, up front.
sort out an anti roll bar that wil clear an A-frame.
blow through turbo efi to fit to the engine as the ghia project is going nowwhere this year.
maybe discs on the rear.
line lock to fit.
more dymo mat.
sort out some stone chips.
engine access panels to fit to get at the plugs.

No to bad if you say it quick.  ::) ;D

 

get the body off the pan,
fit -6 solid fuel line,
sort out the broken clutch tube,
get adjusters welded into my beam,
remove all unneccesary cable guides from the tunnel
trial fit my torque bar
fit HD torsion bars
fit HD Spring plates
Weld in solid mid mount
make new brake lines and fit

basically lots of chassis work! ;D

Finish Interior

Buy set of wheels i have my eyes on,

DONE!

To my 56:

AN fitting to the gas tank
Weld end plates to the front beam
Make good and finish install to the front end
Install all gauges

Then, if I have enought time....

Drop the engine
Remove gearbox
Clean up the underside at the rear
Clean up gearbox
Replace gearbox with new mounts etc
Re-install motor and possibly mount a turbo to see what happens  ;D

http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=583273 (http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=583273)

Engine wise:

Continue building (and finish) my little 1200cc motor for cruzing about Europe with.

To my 54:

Let Alex at Defcon3 finish working his magic :-) get it back home at somepoint and continue to build it up. (Instal my other motor etc)
Would be nice to get that running for next year.

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,9879.0.html (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,9879.0.html)

Hmmm... seems like quite a lot   :o

J
 

I am planning body off restoration, and IRS conversion with new transmission. Car will be a basic cal-look style perhaps, but porsche 17" alloys and 4-piston brakes ;) I have also built fuel injected 2276cc engine from all new parts, and engine may get a new OEM brazilian fans shroud.

For my 1965 T1 I'am going to fit some new wheels ::), beggin on my 1.835 engine, and some other things.
I'am also going to help my father on many other cars like a T3 1972 Fastback, and a T3 1971 panelwan. ;D

More.

Top end upgrade/rebuild, stitch up some new seat covers and door panels, "upgrade" the stereo, new running boards... I'll be lucky if I get one of those done!

Blimey sounds like there's lots to do out there , keep us all updateted guys with pix and progress  8)
I'd like to say welcome to the lounge -alex- but 17" fuchs and cal look don't go in the same sentence for me  ;) :D
Yey Ron Turbo in your ride  8)
Who else has work to do out there this winter ?

Don't know were to start first,my son's bug(body off resto,with lots of welding  :( ),my project  :P  ,and the rebuilt of my house,oh sorry that's not a car.  ;D

Get my car back on the road again after 2 years would be very nice  ::) ::)

gr
Wout

I have some problems with the gearbox in my Buggy

And I also will start building a race car out of this 53 

shortly put:

- finish cosmetics
- redo the entire interior
- build the 1915

Engine out – sort out breather system and source annoying oil leak (pulley seal, i think)
Trans out to check bearings
Cage out (possibly)
Rear seat in and trimmed to match front seats (possibly)
MSD crap out – magneto in (possibly)
Repaint fuel tank

Nice to read about your plans. Please, please, please make project threads  :)

Hopefully I will get the body from the paintshop in a couple of weeks, so then it's just start building the car together! And the car is my '51 split window pan-off resto. Colour will be chestnut brown, polished centerlines, mendeola transmission and a N/A 2386. Hopefully I will make it to next year. Project thread? Maybe later … got a blog, but it's only in swedish. http://splitblitz.blogspot.com/

new bottem end for the 1200 turbo with turbocam
twinspark coil on plug with computer
lose weight
oil cooler
intercooler
make waterinjection work

lose weight :D
on yourself or a la "weight saving thread"?

Mine list is pretty easy.

Remove undercoating from the fender wells and buff them out.
Paint gas tank.
Re-do wheels in a little darker color.
Get ready for rest on the interior to go in this spring.

Just finish the damn thing.

Bug:

- Get the engine back together with a couple of mods and back in the car
- Get a (small) shift light in

Bus:

- New headliner
- Clean or restore the inside panels
- All new rubber
- New windshield
- Change the front right vent window that's broken
- get the engine out, change or work on the heads
- fit my 091 gearbox
- find the right size of rear tyres
- install extra oil-cooler`
- Rust repair
- deal with thing I find out along the way..

Also, learn to weld. Should keep me busy with the job & the work in the appartment...  :D

get box rebuilt, race axles,slicks ,fit cage and were done ;D

probably check guides/seats and do a cylinder scratch job and re ring.

Hopefully get my 4 inch Bore Motor together and Finish The 58 Ragtop Would like to Show it at the Next Classic But There is A Ton To Do So We Will See What Happens after all you Cant Rush Perfection ;D ;D  LMAO!! Waiting On Steve Tims To Finish up the Heads

You really caught the bug, didn't you! :D It sounds like what I've planned to do every winter for the past three years but never have the time or cash for it... This year is no different! ::) :-[

I will fit an line lock, raise compression, mount my new exhaust,new gaslinkage, change from superdiff to spool, new breather box and so on ;)

The list is to long.... ::)
2010 SSC is the target! Drive the Ghia to Gardemoen from Uppsala and race it! ::)

drop engine and box and have a look round and tidy up and paint floor pan
find electric fault ! not sure where it is but ive got 1  ???
 hookys carb panels while im at it
new carb linkage
then in the new year think about project race car !!!!!!

Whats this  PROJECT RACE CAR , I duno I take you to one race meet  ::)

bad isnt glenn ,ive been thinking about making a car purely for track!
very light weight etc ,ill do plenty of research first and plus ive got to finish the camper for the misses as well :'(
i see it has a project that might not see the light for about 2 years
muffler said about a sunroof ratty 68 sat in some ones garden would be good ;)

Yes the 68 would make a cool late looker/race car.

As for what i need to do to my car over the winter is take it to the rolling road.

will that tell you if anything else is going to fall off :D :D

ouchhh ;D

Michael

That's a mighty good plan sir  ;D

"Spits tea out over the keyboard"


LMAO

Brilliant  ;D ;D

well i'm dropping me engine bits off on sunday, so I should have a new bigger engine by Easter!  That will piss the neighbours off.  I am also considering getting a stainless stinger made.

I'm having my cousin Geoff Hart build me a nice little 2387, I can't have Geoffs name on my front window and only run a 1641.

cool....Geoffs Beryl green car is one of my favourite vw's of all time and inspired my own project.

sounds like yours is gonna be pretty hot too.

that would be my plan as well. i have the linelock light installed, but i never really understood the use of this light... you push the button the lock is on, no need for a light IMHO, but it would make a nice descrete shiftlight. i just might need one in the future. when i sort out some other bits and bops on the car this winter.

Totally agree... Just as useful as a parking brake light...

maybe somebody could start selling the "you don't have an engine in your car" light.. you know.. just in case.

 ;D

What shift light have you plane to use?

Fit a nice pair of 48's with some hefty chokes
Some nice heads - CB Ultra Mag plus.
Up the CR to 9.5:1
Its tempting to slip an FK89 in while I am at it  ;D

Then I had better start looking at mid-mounts and h/d engine and 'box mounts  ::)

No rest for the wicked  ;)

Paint !

The complete restoration of my 1962 sunroof notchback (i started last week). The goal is volksworldshow 2010....
Yes i know, it sounds like the restoration of my lowlight (last minute rush), but it dont works without pressure ;)

Mario/DKT

i removed the engine of the 61 yesterday to clean him and will fix the problem with the carbs

I have one off those and it is on all the time now. really annoying as it means i can't drive the fastback.  :'(

no idea on what could work as a shiftlight. i was thinking about your average autometer thingy and just connect the small light to that. maybe Rool has allready an idea on that one.

something like that:

http://www.msdignition.com/Products/RPM/Timing_Controls/RPM_Controls/7552_-_LED_Shift_Light.aspx

No you will not you will stop pissing about and put a big motor in there. :D

Boom Boom on Glenn's PC.

Also will call you Monday/Tuesday night.

ok muffler mart  ;D ;D at this +32486.33.30.84

oh not so much, just the usual (same as last year at least)
New gearbox and new engine :-D

something like this muffler mart ::) ::)........................ ;D ;D

and still waiting for your call  :-\

fabs

Lookin' good Fabs,now get this thing running!!   :D
 ;)

yeah, just connect a few wires and hoses. it's just the look that matters anyhow  ;D

Picked up new 82mm balanced CB crank yesterday, need to pull motor and decide on barrel size before i smuggle the case into work for machining ;) ;)
What i had'nt planned on was repainting the roof but rolled the car out the garage yesterday for 1st time this year to find the roof covered in micro blisters :(
No damp in there and paint is 6 years old so can only think its been over the cold spell a few weeks ago ???

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

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  ;)

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

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 :)

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

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!

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!

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 :P

7. ;) Got to keep one, one day !

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/

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

henk!!!

WOW!!!!

Thanks for the updates splitblitz!

Nice Split Blitz  8) 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  8)

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!

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  ;D

Hopefully ready to roll very soon.

Adele  :)

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

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

Thanks,

Well, the winter was long and cold  :)

Very nice indeed  8)

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! :o I think a 20ft paint job is in order... ;)

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

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

My car is on the road again after 2 years so it was a good winter  ;D, 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  8)
My karmann gonna be a real callooker I promise  :D.

Gr
Wout