67 karmann ghia

[Glauco]

You happy guys 😂 here in Luxembourg you can t even drive a wheel which does not have German TÜV on it , not talking about brakes , beams etc .....
when you put double carbs on you have to dyno it to get it street legal and so on

ok, YOU WIN!  that must suck... how do you get your cars on the road then..?

[samotorsport]

After you modify it , you have to make a full TüV checkup , meaning they check everything you modified , the papers for the parts you ve used and so on , if you put double carbs on for example , you have to put the car on a dyno , they check the numbers , see if the brakes are good enough for the power you do .
For example , discs in the front, drums in the back , max 100 hp .
When all this is done you get a copy of the report , this one you always have to carry with you for you technical control every year or two , and if you get pulled over by the police so you can prove everything is ok .
Alloy wheels without papers , beams without papers no chance to get it running like that

[Glauco]

OK, so corona gave me a little extra time to get some work done. Most of it in the house, but nevertheless, still some work on the karmann as well.

I never really liked the way the rear seat turned out so I decided to start with a new one. I really like the porshe style rear seats so I'm going to try to get something like that in a Karmann. I already made a new frame for the bottom where I can make separate seats in.
just need to score a battery with less height...
next will be the back. I also got some stock front seats that will get some extra cupping as well..

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I also made some changes to the dash:

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fitted new warning lights that go better with the rest of the gauges and molded in a Porsche badge in the fiat horn button


last I had some spare time on the lathe so I made a wooden gear knob for the Hurst shifter, only to find out you can order them from flat4,  there goes 4 hours of doing nothing...  

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last I also fitted the karmann ghia logo to the dash and a correct push knob for the glove box, but because the glove box door originally was for a 70 kg with an other style knob I had to use a washer, so I made a washer that is also a empi style pull lever. Just needs some paint..

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glauco

[Glauco]

After you modify it , you have to make a full TüV checkup , meaning they check everything you modified , the papers for the parts you ve used and so on , if you put double carbs on for example , you have to put the car on a dyno , they check the numbers , see if the brakes are good enough for the power you do .
For example , discs in the front, drums in the back , max 100 hp .
When all this is done you get a copy of the report , this one you always have to carry with you for you technical control every year or two , and if you get pulled over by the police so you can prove everything is ok .
Alloy wheels without papers , beams without papers no chance to get it running like that

Ok, that gives you more work, but in the end you can modify you car and still have it street legal... But nothing like in england I suppose 

[samotorsport]

Yes they are all street legal and safe to drive , i guess i would get a MOT from here easier without ever showing up in the UK than doing all the paperwork here


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[Glauco]

Made stone progress over the weekend.  Finished the frame for the backseat. First I was planning on making the backseat cup more, but seeing there is almost no place to sit I decided to make it a little more simple. If I have some time this week I might start with the upholstery..

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Also took some time to clean up the wiring of the motor a little.  Used an old broomstick to make a wiring tube. Also wanted to have air filters, so I took some cheap chrome ones and painted them grey. Then I drilled 5 holes like the schenk filters. Also wanted to use the same gaze like the filters but I ended up not using them because it wasn't like I pictured it. Really like how they turned out. Wanted all the same bolts so I turned down some hexagonal bolts to Match the rest...
Also fitted a new cable guide with a wheel. Also with the same bolt.
Fitted a generator stand rather than a (baddly) altered dynamo stand and threw away the made in China alternator pulley and used a original one..
Last I learn a lot from this forum so to eliminate the problems with hot starting I made some erthalon spacers to put between the carb and the intakes...

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[Eddie DVK]

Did some interior detailing and finally got to install the fuchses. Slowly getting ready for summer!

Painted the seatrails and steering wheel and put some sound insulation under the floormats.



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Glauco,

Do you have more picture on how you mounted the simca bucketseats and the frames you used?

Thanks in regards
Eddie

[Glauco]

Did some interior detailing and finally got to install the fuchses. Slowly getting ready for summer!

Painted the seatrails and steering wheel and put some sound insulation under the floormats.



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Glauco,

Do you have more picture on how you mounted the simca bucketseats and the frames you used?

Thanks in regards
Eddie

Hey Eddy,

I cut away the bottom of the simca seats and made my own mounts. I had to because my bottom flat flanges were bad enough.
I made a frame to mount them on peugeot 205 3-door frames wherefore I welded nuts in the floor pan for this frame. The Peugeot frames tilt, something that you have to have in Belgium if you have a rear seat but no rear doors...

I have some pictures of the seats out of the car. If you need other pictures, just ask

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Glauco

[Eddie DVK]

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Hey Eddy,

I cut away the bottom of the simca seats and made my own mounts. I had to because my bottom flat flanges were bad enough.
I made a frame to mount them on peugeot 205 3-door frames wherefore I welded nuts in the floor pan for this frame. The Peugeot frames tilt, something that you have to have in Belgium if you have a rear seat but no rear doors...

I have some pictures of the seats out of the car. If you need other pictures, just ask

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Glauco

Good point about that tilting and rear seat, have to look into that for The Netherlands.
Thanks for the picture. Got some idea s now

Regards Eddie

[Glauco]

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Hey Eddy,

I cut away the bottom of the simca seats and made my own mounts. I had to because my bottom flat flanges were bad enough.
I made a frame to mount them on peugeot 205 3-door frames wherefore I welded nuts in the floor pan for this frame. The Peugeot frames tilt, something that you have to have in Belgium if you have a rear seat but no rear doors...

I have some pictures of the seats out of the car. If you need other pictures, just ask

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Glauco

Good point about that tilting and rear seat, have to look into that for The Netherlands.
Thanks for the picture. Got some idea s now

Regards Eddie

and if you don't want to cut up your bucket seats you can always buy mine I'm thinking of switching back to stock seats...

[Glauco]

So last Thursday I drove the car for the first time this year - having a newly born and renovating a house takes up all the spare time - and I almost forgot how fun this car is to drive.
Ok, the time in the garage left some markets on the car. Both figuratively as literally.. the hurst shifter's reverse pull cable snapped so I had to drive the 50km back home only using 3rd and 4th. But that didn't spoil the fun I had now the car sits on dropped spindles so finally has some spring in the front.
I wasn't to happy with my first take on 944 calipers on dropped spindles so I gathered parts to do it again. While looking for some cheap spindles I also got the opportunity to buy some 944 turbo calipers witch should make it easier to adapt to dropped disc brake spindles than the NA calipers.
Girlfriend and daughter were away this evening so I took the opportunity to mill the spindles for the new calipers...

The drive
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The milling
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Next up is mocking everything up so I can make the correct size spacers..

Glauco

[Glauco]

Used the winter to finally start on my interior.
Doubted if I would go for stock seats or keep the simca rallye seats.
I decided to use the simca rallye seats, but make new cushions.
Very pleased with the outcome 
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Made the same cushion for the rear
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Doorpanels:

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[Glauco]

Some details:

Glovebox
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Sunvisors:
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Now I just need to replace the black carpet with the new brown and install everything..

Glauco

[ibg]

good work, a kind of a hark back to the 70's and a bit modern at the same time. I really like the pocket on the sun visor 

[VWGlassee]

Whoa very cool! Well done 

Yannick

[Glauco]

good work, a kind of a hark back to the 70's and a bit modern at the same time. I really like the pocket on the sun visor 

Thanks, I like that little detail as well. I was looking for a bit of 70s without copying anything. Pretty happy with the outcome 

[Glauco]

Whoa very cool! Well done 

Yannick

Thank you!

[Glauco]

Finally got around doing some interior work
Rear seat in its final form
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Front seats installed
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Panels and glovebox door with empi pull.
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Inside the glovebox. Note the book for papers. Wasn't happy about the colour of the wood for the window crank, so I tried to get it as close as possible to the rosewood shift knob.
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[Glauco]

 Closer look at the glovebox interior
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[wolfswest]

Good progress! 

2022 is gonna be our... 

[Glauco]

Good progress! 

2022 is gonna be our... 

let's hope 

[Joe Hullett]

Great work Glauco.  Your KG is so nice.  I wish I had your body work skills.

[Glauco]

Hard to believe I've owned this car for almost 17 years   this is going to be a long talk with some melancholy dripped over it.
17 years with a lot of ups and downs, luckily one up more than the downs.
This car was a learning curve for me to say the least. when I started the Restoration of the original red one I wanted a whole other car than I wanted now.
for some KG horror: http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,3582.0.html
faith and luck made me change that plan quite a few times.
In this learning curve I've come to see what I can and more important, what I can't do myself. Building an engine from scratch was one of those things. Painting a car in a wet barn was the other thing.
To make amends with things I decided to strip the entire car and have it repainted. When the project started I wanted a true callooker without nosegrills and turn signals. after I painted the car (with a terrible paintjob) I tried to make it better by adding bumpers and reinstating the nose grills.
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here is how I dropped the car off to the painter.

I was hoping to get the car back well before EBI, but finding a guy who wants to repaint a home restored car with a shitty paintjob wasn't easy. Car wasn't going to be ready for EBI, but that turned out a good thing as I have a close friend who now owns the Marty Souter red KG. One of my 3 all time favorites, Frenchy's yellow and jeff benedict's blue car being the other. Joe Hullet's car being a close fourth. 3 KG's without nose grills...
Driving the Marty Souter car was a whole experience for me, very cool looking car, but very hard ride as well... Not going to shit on the car, this car is absolutely stunning, Dem (wolfswest) did an amazing job on getting the looks back to what it was in the late 70s and Dries, the current owner is doing his best to preserve this for the future. But to make it a cool driver, some things would need to change. not my car, so not my problem, but important for me to know (again) what I want for my car...
As I got home on sunday evening after some cool talks with the DKP guys and some others I sent the painter a message to close the nosegrills one last time and remove the holes for the turn signals. We need them in Belgium, but I will find a solution for that. Also when I started the journey I was 22 years young and had a whole other look on things as I do now. The signal yellow paintjob being to bright for me now I opted for an other Porsche color, being Bahama Yellow. don't want to stray to far from the original plan, but still want it to stay my car.
I will try to post some more photo's in the next days weeks as I tackle other sideprojects.
what's on my to do list for now:

- redo the interior, I made some mistakes I want to address

- redo the engine. I made my own GB (Glauco Bertolami  ) special DCNF's with DDS intakes and linkage, but I also dropped the platework off for powdercoating.

- install a step in the header. because it's a 1641 with a mild cam I opted to start with 75mm of 1 3/8, the rest of the header is 1 1/2

- redo the wheels

- renew all the rubbers (again)

hope you'll like the next episode for this car, I hope it will be a true callook car again  

Glauco

[Glauco]

One of the parts I wanted to address prior to paint was how the engine looked.
I'm aware that the FK65 isn't the first choice for a sporty ride, but I will be the first to tell you otherwise. In my 1641 with "how to hot rod your vw" DIY portjob the cam performed really great.
Just didn't feel the looks of the IDF's for some odd reason
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I found a set of 40 DCNF's on witch I wanted to practice a little before I ruin my 42's for the bigger engine.
because I have my own lathe and mill I wanted to do ass much ass possible on my own. I already made some grooved venturis for the IDF's so this carbs needed to get the same.
I also was able to score a cool set of DDS intakes and a NOS DDS linkage witch would replace me newly painted berg linkage...
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apart from the new powerpulley/356pulley, this is how the engine looked when I pulled her out
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Not sure if the DCNF's outperform the IDF's, but I sure do love the look more. for me they really complete the look I wanted (without going to IDA's).
next I'm tackling is the bad feeling I get from the DDS linkage. I'm modifying it to receive bearings so the return will be better

[nicolas]

DCNF's outperform 40 IDF's... smoother and more top end power. on a 1776 where nothing else was changed that was what I experineced. 

[richie]

The next step sounds good to me, looking forward to see your version of those Ghias  


cheers Richie

[Glauco]

DCNF's outperform 40 IDF's... smoother and more top end power. on a 1776 where nothing else was changed that was what I experineced. 

Maybe I expressed myself wrong. I didn't got the feeling the dcnf's outperformed the IDF's, but that's maybe because the feeling is different because the transition is that much smoother...
 Or maybe because you tuned the IDF's and I tuned the DCNF'S 

[Glauco]

The next step sounds good to me, looking forward to see your version of those Ghias  


cheers Richie

Thanks. It took me a while to figure out what I want with the car. But the most important part is that this car has to much sentimental attachment so it will be staying. So I'm building it for me.

[BossHogg76]

Great to see more posts in the Da Works section. I hope my recruitment campaign at ebi worked  . Looking for to seeing this progress.

[Glauco]

Great to see more posts in the Da Works section. I hope my recruitment campaign at ebi worked  . Looking for to seeing this progress.

Thanks. It absolutely worked! Seeing your project got me thinking about all the work I've put into mine without sharing it. And then I go complaining to my friends that nothing happens on the lounge