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« Reply #300 on: March 15, 2010, 21:09:19 pm »

Be interested to see how you do this Paul , I'd like to do this to mine but it looks to be a fair bit of cutting and Fab work involved  Undecided

Here's an other guy doing some insane fabrication, scroll down the first page and you'll see his hanging pedals.
http://www.germanlook.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10369

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« Reply #301 on: March 17, 2010, 21:36:59 pm »

Started to find the wright position for the line-lock coil, made a bracket for it and tack welded it to the chassis.
Yesterday i thought this was a good position, today I am not so sure. Undecided
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« Reply #302 on: March 17, 2010, 21:42:25 pm »

Bin playing with the pedals again. After trying a few positions and checking the seat position, this is what it is going to be.
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« Reply #303 on: March 18, 2010, 13:34:58 pm »

Paul, the king of mad- modifications  Grin
Nice work.

Greetings mycha
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« Reply #304 on: March 18, 2010, 17:16:09 pm »

just wondering, but why are you using the VW steering arm and rods with the 914 front suspension?
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« Reply #305 on: March 18, 2010, 19:48:21 pm »

You don't expect this to be in standard configuration now do you  Roll Eyes  Have a look through the thread and you'll see how the steering has already been adapted.
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« Reply #306 on: March 18, 2010, 20:35:17 pm »

just wondering, but why are you using the VW steering arm and rods with the 914 front suspension?

The 914 front suspension is narrowed about 2,5", this is why the original 914 steering didn't fit anymore.
I made a new steering setup using old bug parts, hoping to set bumbsteer to a minimum.

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« Reply #307 on: March 18, 2010, 20:37:04 pm »

You don't expect this to be in standard configuration now do you Roll Eyes 

I am not a standard guy  Wink

Cheers, Paul.
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« Reply #308 on: March 18, 2010, 20:38:40 pm »

Are those pedals aftermarket Paul?
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« Reply #309 on: March 18, 2010, 20:46:46 pm »

Are those pedals aftermarket Paul?
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Hi Kev,

I bought these on Ebay, it's a Tilton set. (not sure for what car it is Embarrassed)

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« Reply #310 on: March 18, 2010, 20:49:41 pm »

Paul, the king of mad- modification's Grin
Nice work.

Greetings mycha

Thanks mate,

After seeing what you are doing to your Westy, I can't wait to see the modifications you have planned for your "Nasty Fasty" Shocked

Paul.
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« Reply #311 on: March 18, 2010, 20:51:02 pm »

I'm looking for a pedal assemby myself right now Roll Eyes
Have you got a slave cylinder for the clutch yet?
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« Reply #312 on: March 18, 2010, 21:27:17 pm »

I'm looking for a pedal assembly myself right now Roll Eyes
Have you got a slave cylinder for the clutch yet?

yes, I'm not sure it fit's but I am trying to use an hydraulic bearing from an Opel Vectra.
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« Reply #313 on: March 18, 2010, 23:12:23 pm »

Cool pic!  Grin
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« Reply #314 on: March 19, 2010, 07:43:41 am »

Cool pic!  Grin

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« Reply #315 on: March 20, 2010, 15:20:34 pm »

Started to find the wright position for the line-lock coil, made a bracket for it and tack welded it to the chassis.
Yesterday i thought this was a good position, today I am not so sure. Undecided

I wasn't sure about the line-lock position, so back to the drawing board Angry
To feat the brake lines down to the front suspension, I had to go inside (the fueltank is in the way). So I thought why not use the line-lock as an 90deg. line fitting.

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« Reply #316 on: March 20, 2010, 15:26:41 pm »

After all the brake parts where fitted in there final place, I could start with the brake line.

Stainles brake line and anodised brackets Cool
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« Reply #317 on: March 20, 2010, 19:13:11 pm »

Paul is it to late to make it a Right Hand Drive LMAO Grin Grin
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« Reply #318 on: March 20, 2010, 19:59:07 pm »

doesn't look original to me  Grin

i like it paul...a lot
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« Reply #319 on: March 20, 2010, 20:19:13 pm »

Paul is it to late to make it a Right Hand Drive LMAO Grin Grin

Everything is possible. How about putting the steer in the middle, we both be happy. Grin

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« Reply #320 on: March 20, 2010, 20:28:34 pm »

doesn't look original to me  Grin

i like it paul...a lot

Thanks Hans. Just had a peek at your update, and "I like it a lot" is an understatement. Keep the good work going Cool

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« Reply #321 on: March 24, 2010, 21:29:12 pm »

Did some work on the pedals again.
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« Reply #322 on: April 03, 2010, 14:51:40 pm »

I wasn't happy with the 14mm uniballs that i used for the rear suspension. So today I made a startwith the modification.

New 18mm (very strong) uniballs, M18*1,5 (left/right) adjusters and M18*1,5 weldnuts.

The plan is to place the uniballs between the outher plate and chassis, put a urethane bush in the torsiontube and weld a M18 nut in the pipe that goes in the urethane bush.
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Of course the uniball has to go further in.
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Here you see the plan; 14mm nut (has to be changed to 18mm), outher plate, 18mm uniball, plate to weld to the pipe, pipe that goes in the torsion tube and original rubber that will be replaced by a urethane one.
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« Reply #323 on: April 10, 2010, 20:31:18 pm »

Bin playing with the rearwheel setup again today. It looked a little out of line so I found a way to check it. After mounting a laserpointer to the brakedisk, I saw it was only a few METERS out of line Shocked Embarrassed Embarrassed
I looked for the exact middle of the pan (front and rear), the welded some steel profiles to it, wrote a scale on the profiles, mounted a laserpointer to the brakedisk, cut one side of the IRS bracket and started playing with the alighnment.

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Here are the two profiles welded to The chassis.

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Laser mounted to the brakedisk and pointed to the first profile.

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Laserpoint at first profile.

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Laserpoint at second profile.
It's not 100% waterproof, but it's a good start.

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« Reply #324 on: April 14, 2010, 20:16:59 pm »

Yesterday it was time to align the left side.

First I cut the mount.
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Then after some measuring, tacked it again.
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Check, double check with the laser.
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And welded it together again. Cool
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« Reply #325 on: April 17, 2010, 20:32:38 pm »

Almost finished one of two rear adjusters (version two) Cool. The spindle has to be shortened a bit and then I can start with the second one.
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Here you can see how it's going to be mounted, the outher-plate is mounted with 10mm bolts on the original place and the urethane bush is going in the torsiontube.
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« Reply #326 on: May 01, 2010, 20:21:01 pm »

Both sides are finally ready and mounted. only the 10mm 8,8 bolts have to be replaced by  10mm12,9 ones.
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« Reply #327 on: May 02, 2010, 13:04:02 pm »

looking good paul , with this set up it will be more likely to survive  Grin
and as I told before i like the new way of doing things....the way the front steering looks....finish the car and let me try
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« Reply #328 on: May 02, 2010, 13:27:20 pm »

looking good paul , with this set up it will be more likely to survive  Grin

My thoughts exactly

and as I told before i like the new way of doing things....the way the front steering looks....finish the car and let me try

One of the things I wanted to do is; doing things different Cool

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« Reply #329 on: May 15, 2010, 20:38:17 pm »

Today I did the last, technical, things to the chassis Cool

I welded the bottomcorners to the torsion tube again.
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Made a fixatering to fixate the IRS bolt when its in place. (aftermarket bracket don't have the fixatering)
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