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now that i've pulled out my engine, i've got an engine bay to restructure as well.
and i might want to do something with my firewall as it has not been painted along with the rest of the car  :'(

also, i wanna go a "bit" 70-ies on my 67 from now on. so does anyone have any ideas or pictures of what i could do with it?

and secondly, i like frenchy's structuring of the wires that run to the back:
(http://www.frenchysrides.com/images/scan00765.jpg)

lastly, i'd wanna put my coil and a future breather box on the firewall as well i think.

p.s. i like this firewall, but i've been told it's "not done"  ;)

Thats easy. Most places sell a universal "Baja" aluminum firewall. Its just a rectangle piece with a bead rolled edge. It fits perfectly against the firewall and costs around $25.00 (Last time I looked).
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/166955.jpg)

Frenchy's ghia is probably my favorite ghia still. Big wig racecars has started making some nice aluminum firewall panels too.

--louis

which one jim?

i can get a stainless steel firewall over here as well, but i think that may be too shiny.
almost as though it's chromed  :o

All the ones shown above are aluminum not the cheesy stainless.

Back in the early 70's, most of us that were around got our ideas at the drags.  We went to the drags a lot...cheap entertainment and several tracks to choose from gave us lots of ideas.  I rememmber being "influenced" on an alluminum firewall back then, so went to a metal sales place in Anaheim and bought a sheet of material and a pop-rivit gun and went to work using the old tar board pieces as templates.  The thing that sticks in my mind most about the project happened about six moths after the installation.  One night I was cruising around...the lights started flickering, the smell of smoke, the SIGHT of smoke in the rear  view mirror....stopped, opened the smoke filled engine compartment...the hot wire to the voltage regulator had rubbed a hole in the insullation (who needs grommets) where it passed through the aluminum firewall and was glowing bright orange!

engine turning looks very cool and cal look 8)

what is engine turning?  :-[

 ;D :D

mmh, i've got a new desktop pic and i'm thinking i need to get myself a firewall like that before i put my engine back in!
it just looks awesome!

still i think crago's firewall is a tad too shiny...

isn't the crago ghia on the middle  ;D
here's roger firewall

i know it's in the middle, that's why i said it was a tad too shiny.  ::)

do you have any other pics of firewalls in a beetle?

oh wait, the ghia in the middle's got fuchs, so i can't be crago's.
i guess that's what you were trying to say!  ;)

Crago's one had fuch's later on... so it's certainly his car in the middle.

I would go for the engine turned alu.  Really like it!

no it'isn't crago ghia watch the rear light those are the 69 ->71 model , crago had the 60 ->68 and roger has an berg linkage on his engine and short ida manifold ,  roger 's kg was gunmetal grey and the one in the middle is black  , and roger license plate was K GHIA and the one in the middle is 457 BZX
rgd
speedwell

oops, got me there ;)

you're right fabian!
i noticed the rear light and that colour was off. also the black has the empi IDA linkage - which i really really like  8)
so whose is the black ghia?

and jelle, you mean you like the firewall of the white ghia?

oo, i still have as my desktop and i like it so much.
so inspirational  ;D

Inspirational ??? OLD and SIMPLE maybe ...

This is the style off aluminium I would use:

(http://www.jamespearce.uk.com/pictures/dash.jpg)

Mmh, quite an interesting style that is  ;)

Dokke, i was referring to the photo of the 3 ghias...
It's a great piece of history  8)