Grelland's Ghia

[Grelland]

thanks.

I wish I had more time to work on the car...

I spent one more day on the engine, but nothing visible apart from a padding on the firewall, and a lot more wiring and fitting the sensors...

[alfie the monster]

That's going to be one cool Ghia when it's finished 

[Grelland]

Thanks, I certainly hope so

I got just one night in the garage so far this week... My wife has been away with her work, and I have three little boys to look after...

But some details got done, and one of them was to hook up my 3rd brake light.

My intention is to use the car as much as I can, so I figured some safety thinking would be a good thing.

Here's how the rear end looks while braking:

as you can see, it indicates that most of the electrical system works too

and here's a close-up of the 3rd light:

I used a repro hella back-up light with a red lens.. I also have the clear lens, so I will see how it looks with red leds and the clear lens.

Finally, my son's project that night was to mount the engine surveillance instruments and hook them up:

It all works, and even the lighs dim while turning the knob

As you can see, I will need a new set of dash knobs...

[danny gabbard]

Your car has came a long way and very nicelly so , Keep up the nice work and pictures.Very cool to see more ghia stuff going on

[Grelland]

thanks, and it seems I have forgot to update in a while...

I will upload some pics of the current status:

[Grelland]

a few more:

[Grelland]

I even tried starting the engine, and have about 30 mins video of ..... nothing....

I started out hooking the fuel pump up the wrong way around, and when that was fixed, it coffed a few times, but then I discovered a leakage in the original fuel line that I use as a return line from the regulator to the tank. So now I will make new lines, and replace some of the fittings before I start it again.

So there is some progress, but I still have 2 ft of snow here, so there's no immediate rush

[empicolector]

great work
I like the wheels

[vwcab]

great work
I like the wheels

Yeah,that's gonne be an AWESOME car when it's ready.     

[Grelland]

Thanks, guys.

Here are a few more shots:

[Grelland]

and this is how we spend Saturday nights in our house

[Grelland]

more

[Grelland]

And finally how the door panel look on the car:

[speedwell]

very nice roy great job 

[kev d]

Ghia`s looking very cool
Is it in the final build up stage or are there still things to build / work out?

Cheers,
Kev

[nicolas]

that project amazeses me every time. love it.

[Grelland]

I really hope this is the final build-up.

There are a couple of thinks I need to fix, though, like the bushings in the front beam, and a leaking fuel line, but from what I know, when it is mounted this time, it will be on the road

[nicolas]

cool!!! can't wait for those pictures

[Grelland]

Easter in Norway norally mean going up in the mountains, and I spend the first 3 days in our cabin with my boys, while my wife had to work...

But yesterday evening we came back, and today, spring is finally here, and I rolled the car out in the driveway, and worked on it most of the day outside in the sunshine and 10-12 deg (Centigrade..)

My brother-in-law came over, and we decided to tackle the headliner..

And here are a couple of pictures from the nicest part:



Not too bad, but at the rear, I have some problems:


There are some wrinkles down the middle, that will smooth out as soon as I apply some heat, but it is quite visible that I was not able to thighten it enough side-to-side, and the next shot show what I suspect is part of the problem:


Here it can be seen that the pockets for the steel rods are shorter for the front and rearmost rod, and it is a pain in the a.. to tighten it enough where  the pockets are shorter, they are in fact a couple of inches shorter than the original...

Oh well, I will lwave it in for now, and see what happens when the weather warms up a bit more...

[Grelland]

After the boys were in bed, I went out again, and while I was away, my wife had bought the pipes for my new fuel lines, so I spent the night on the floor, bending the pipe in a zillion places, to make iy fit.

It starts up front next to the fuel pump which is mounted on the front "firewall":


Then it turns around and into the slot between the pan and the dogleg:


and continues inside the wheel-well, Then turns down and into the slot formed by the heater channel:


Nice and protected along the heater channel: (I will add more clamps later)


Then it turns inwards and up between the pan and the torsion bar tube:


Then it comes up and turns backwards close to the frame fork, just above the IRS bracket:



Now I only have to repeat this for the other side, for the return line...

[Shubee2 (DSK)]

Easter in Norway norally mean going up in the mountains, and I spend the first 3 days in our cabin with my boys, while my wife had to work...

But yesterday evening we came back, and today, spring is finally here, and I rolled the car out in the driveway, and worked on it most of the day outside in the sunshine and 10-12 deg (Centigrade..)

My brother-in-law came over, and we decided to tackle the headliner..

And here are a couple of pictures from the nicest part:



Not too bad, but at the rear, I have some problems:


There are some wrinkles down the middle, that will smooth out as soon as I apply some heat, but it is quite visible that I was not able to thighten it enough side-to-side, and the next shot show what I suspect is part of the problem:


Here it can be seen that the pockets for the steel rods are shorter for the front and rearmost rod, and it is a pain in the a.. to tighten it enough where  the pockets are shorter, they are in fact a couple of inches shorter than the original...

Oh well, I will lwave it in for now, and see what happens when the weather warms up a bit more...

Hi Roy you can use a Hair dryer to get the wrinkles out just dont get it to hot at one time 

[Zach Gomulka]

Just cut back that listing until it matches up with the other one. Be careful with heat and perforated vinyl!

[Grelland]

Thanks for the advice,

here's a shot from late last night, the Norwegian spring is here

[empicolector]

nice work dude
yours wheels are top

[Grelland]

thanks.

here's a shot after todays work on the front

[pimpis78]

Very nice job.     But is it so god to have the fuelline in the heaterchannel.  In case of a accident it will broke and cause danger!!

Jimmy

[Grelland]

The lines are not inside the heater channel, but under the car, beside the heater channels.

[pimpis78]

I know..    I mean i case of a sidecrash the line vill break!

Jimmy

[Grelland]

PROGRESS!!

She runs (or more accurately ran...)

Here's a video of the startup:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/H0qBojJTBrI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/H0qBojJTBrI</a>

and the funny noise that made us stop and take the engine apart:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iM_VunaQylQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iM_VunaQylQ</a>

[Grelland]

I finally found time to put the engine back in, and after some initial tweaking of the mapppings it actually runs. Not good, but it runs...

So I thought I should take it out for a spin:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/8FF3BNhtMjc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/8FF3BNhtMjc</a>

As you can hear, there is quite some tuning left to do, but now I can focus on finishing up the rest, so that I can get some more testing and tuning done.

I have the carpets, all the fabric for the interior, and also the brightwork and bumpers lying around, so the final assembly should be smooth (famous last words...) . My wife will fire up her sowing machine next week, so things are moving ahead.

And btw, I look HUGE in that little car... (Well I am quite big  )