New Owner

Forget the speedster. I just want the garage space.
-=theron

I've got these under cylinder tins and pulley tin. You will probably need a rear tin and then close the gap to the body with sheet metal.  You can have them for the cost of shipping and the normal SOC trade requirement of minor beer money. PM me if you want them.
-=theron

Welcome to the Madness, @vdubuslife!!!!  Looks like a nice basis for some customization.

Got a name we can call you by?

Here's what the CMC kit came with.  They were 1/8" fiberglass but you can make them from duct sheet metal or thin aluminum.  Most span the 1/2" remaining gap with a '72 up VW Bus H engine seal.   Cool beachy color!

Theron posted:

I've got these under cylinder tins and pulley tin. You will probably need a rear tin and then close the gap to the body with sheet metal.  You can have them for the cost of shipping and the normal SOC trade requirement of minor beer money. PM me if you want them.
-=theron

Hi Theron,

Yes, I would like to purchase the tins. I'll PM  you. Thank you!

Lane Anderson posted:

Welcome to the Madness, @vdubuslife!!!!  Looks like a nice basis for some customization.

Got a name we can call you by?

I was trying to come up with some witty handle/username. 

I came up with "George"  

WOLFGANG posted:

Here's what the CMC kit came with.  They were 1/8" fiberglass but you can make them from duct sheet metal or thin aluminum.  Most span the 1/2" remaining gap with a '72 up VW Bus H engine seal.   Cool beachy color!

Very cool! I'll start hunting around for the bus engine seal.

May I ask where you got the documentation from? Is the CMC kit build still available? 

That is a good looking Speedster.  I have to agree with @Theron about the garage space!

I’m new to this as well (18mo the or so).  I am running all of the sheet-metal in my 1993 VS with a Type IV flexible engine seal (not 100% on the actual terminology).

I haven’t had the slightest issues with heat no matter where I drive.  I recently bumped it up from 1600cc to 2180cc with thick wall cylinders and added a thin line sump, external cooler, and remote filter.  It actually runs cooler now.

Build manual? - supporting members can click onto the RESOURCES then LIBRARY link to download a couplemof versions of the CMC/FF build manuals aw well as wiring and VS Owners Manual.

Cool car! Love the Brooklands Aero Screens on the Speedster. 

vdubuslife posted:

WOLFGANG posted:

Here's what the CMC kit came with.  They were 1/8" fiberglass but you can make them from duct sheet metal or thin aluminum.  Most span the 1/2" remaining gap with a '72 up VW Bus H engine seal.   Cool beachy color!

Very cool! I'll start hunting around for the bus engine seal.

May I ask where you got the documentation from? Is the CMC kit build still available? 

WOLFGANG posted:

Build manual? - supporting members can click onto the RESOURCES then LIBRARY link to download a couplemof versions of the CMC/FF build manuals aw well as wiring and VS Owners Manual.

ps://www.speedsterowners.com/pages/library

Here's a link to the seal once you get it all done:

https://www.googleadservices.c...oQ9aACCDg&adurl=

edsnova posted:

Cool car! Love the Brooklands Aero Screens on the Speedster. 

I dig the separate wind screens too. My grandson said it looked my spectacles. 

Robert M posted:

vdubuslife posted:

WOLFGANG posted:

Here's what the CMC kit came with.  They were 1/8" fiberglass but you can make them from duct sheet metal or thin aluminum.  Most span the 1/2" remaining gap with a '72 up VW Bus H engine seal.   Cool beachy color!

Very cool! I'll start hunting around for the bus engine seal.

May I ask where you got the documentation from? Is the CMC kit build still available? 

WOLFGANG posted:

Build manual? - supporting members can click onto the RESOURCES then LIBRARY link to download a couplemof versions of the CMC/FF build manuals aw well as wiring and VS Owners Manual.

ps://www.speedsterowners.com/pages/library

Here's a link to the seal once you get it all done:

https://www.googleadservices.c...oQ9aACCDg&adurl=

Link copied to my build sheet. Thank you!

Thank you @Robert M : that is, in fact, the rear seal I use.

I have a CMC kit and I made templates out of cardboard then cut aluminum pieces to fit. I welded in tabs to the frame to support the aluminum sheets. I finished it with a bulb rubber seal all the way around ( not shown). I can shoot a final picture tomorrow if you want to see the finished product.

Drumagination posted:

I have a CMC kit and I made templates out of cardboard then cut aluminum pieces to fit. I welded in tabs to the frame to support the aluminum sheets. I finished it with a bulb rubber seal all the way around ( not shown). I can shoot a final picture tomorrow if you want to see the finished product.

 

This is just plain awesome!

Yes, I would really like to see how you finished it off. 

Thank you for sharing.

I did something similar to Dru on my CMC, and made the shields out of HVAC galvanized sheetmetal from a Heating/HVAC place.  Maybe $20 bucks worth of metal (actually, they gave it to me). 

I have two pieces, one a giant horse shoe attached from the bottom, going around the back of the engine and along the sides to the firewall where it attaches to the firewall via a rubber sheet that looks suspiciously like a rubber stair tread.  All that just screws into the CMC body frame with 10-32 screws around the engine and seals against the engine tin with Frost King door weatherstrip from Home Depot.  I do not need the "H" gasket from a beetle or bus - there are no gaps.

The second shield attaches to the top of that body frame and goes across the back of the engine compartment (near the tail lights), but it has a kip-up at each end to seal against the body just beyond the tail lights where there's a big hole.  

I have paper templates of them both, marked with bends and approximate hole locations.  I can send them for the cost of packaging and postage - $5 bucks and they're yours, just PM me and we'll chat.

Gordon's templates are a huge time saver I still use them. At Lowes, I buy a flat piece of 2 x 3' heat A/C duct.  If you lay it out right one $10 sheet will be enough. Rather than welding tabs to the 2 x 2 frame I use one 5/16 self tap hex head screw on the left and right side near the engine bay bulkhead. the rest I just use a few nickel size dabs of seam sealer to glue it in place. I fold in the edge about 3/4" on a 45 degree angle to match the engine tin then use a foam Bus H seal to fill in the 1/2 - 5/8" gap. If you need to pull the engine, I just pry the pieces apart with a paint scraper.

I still get a chuckle after seeing the engine comparment of a new VS years ago where Kirk's guys had used wood grain embosed aluminum siding for the engine tins.