More boxes….
Looks like Christmas came early!!!!
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@Former Member posted:Looks like Christmas came early!!!!
There will be no Christmas this year. I’m going broke!!😂😂😶😢
Hopefully I’ll be going extremely fast and stopping extremely quickly come Christmas though
Hey by the way that’s a Nice Looking Bug
@Former Member posted:Hey by the way that’s a Nice Looking Bug
Not mine but it is awesome. Absolutely beautiful. It’s got north of 200hp too….
Here's a couple of mine.........Bruce
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Given you're based in Texas, IMHO the main thing you need to focus on regarding your engine bay is ensuring you have all the tinware needed to direct cooling air over your cylinder heads. @DannyP's comment about the dogsled tins is something you need to read up on, as is the isolation between the engine bay (cool air intake) and underneath (hot cylinder heads needing cooling). It's not difficult to sort the tinware even for a custom build and there are multiple ways of skinning the proverbial cat.
I personally don't think you have to be completely anal about every 1mm hole (although it never hurts to be detail-oriented, eh Danny?), but if you do get the engine bay sealed AND run a remote oil cooler you should be fine even if the weather is:
@aircooled posted:Here's a couple of mine.........Bruce
I love this. Did you do the tin work inside as well?
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Yes Greasy....I did the tin work. 22ga Stainless. 1.5" circles for the engine turn look. I bought the stainless that way from the company that supplied BurgerKing with the same sheeting for their table tops and partitions in some of their facilities. It was $600.00 for a 4 X 8' sheet which is enough to do two cars and some left over for whatever..................Bruce
@Martin's Eleven (UK) posted:Given you're based in Texas, IMHO the main thing you need to focus on regarding your engine bay is ensuring you have all the tinware needed to direct cooling air over your cylinder heads. @DannyP's comment about the dogsled tins is something you need to read up on, as is the isolation between the engine bay (cool air intake) and underneath (hot cylinder heads needing cooling). It's not difficult to sort the tinware even for a custom build and there are multiple ways of skinning the proverbial cat.
I personally don't think you have to be completely anal about every 1mm hole (although it never hurts to be detail-oriented, eh Danny?), but if you do get the engine bay sealed AND run a remote oil cooler you should be fine even if the weather is:
Or our very own @Cory McCloskey with his out of control record temps in Arizona:
That video was so awesome and Jim's packing video are both momentos you have to watch.
BTW, the painting the barn is needed and lipstick : nice going.
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Free drums from a 66. Pay for shipping from Texas. Internals have very few miles on them. Preferably to someone who will use them soon vs going on a shelf or resold.
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It is coming along quicker than expected and you are doing an awesome job!
Aren't new disks awesome looking, too bad you have to get them dirty... Now that is OCD....
@Impala posted:It is coming along quicker than expected and you are doing an awesome job!
I can’t take much credit at all. My neighbor Matt is an amazing mechanic. I pretty much just hand him tools and tell him he’s doing it wrong. He gets all the credit!!
I’m not a huge fan of how this shifter looks. They were out of the trigger shifter but holy smokes she shifts nicely with the new bushings. The old ones were smoked. Extremely positive feedback in each gear. I don’t ever remember my beetle working so well.