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Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:45 pm

[quote="bicyclemonkey"] iaccy wrote: Since your blinkers are not on top of the fenders, are those little orange bulbs in your headlight assembly your blinkers?

Right, I have the amber running lights wired as my blinkers. Cleaner looking in my opinion. The only downfall is that I can't use my running lights, but I think if I get a double filament bulb I can use both.

Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:31 pm

I'm the treasurer of my college car club and this past weekend we had a dyno day at my friends dad's partially owned shop, so I brought the VW for sh*ts and giggles. My guess was 37rwhp and I was pretty close. Thought I'd share some of the pictures and results.

The reason why run 1 was cut so short is because the tach signal ground wire started to come loose. I don't know what a stock 1600dp should make but I'm assuming through drive train lose it should be around that.

Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:28 pm

I would figure a 1600DP would be higher than that, I thought the original 1500's were 50hp.

Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:48 am

bicyclemonkey wrote: I would figure a 1600DP would be higher than that, I thought the original 1500's were 50hp.

I'm assuming those numbers were at the crank...yea b/c a 1600 is supposed to be 60hp

Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:00 am

Here's a link to the videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmqrOIVkMrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MffiFzBKPd0
The dyno guy driving the car drove it out a little longer than I would have but oh well...it's still in one piece

Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:49 am

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this! My 67 body is prety bad so I am swaaping in another that has better lines with a little cancer. Gonna use 2 bodies to make one good one!

Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:43 pm

Doodoob wrote: Just wanted to say thanks for posting this! My 67 body is prety bad so I am swaaping in another that has better lines with a little cancer. Gonna use 2 bodies to make one good one!

Thanks! At least you have another car to use, that's the best way to go :D

Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:48 pm

Here's a few updated pics....I'd bad with keeping this thing updated.

A roof rack I found on Craigslist. The kids father passed away, so he wanted to get rid of it.

So I put it on and threw an old gas can and spare tire up there :D I love this picture

I freshened it up with some almond color paint.

I'm also redoing my entire interior this winter, so I'll document that too.

Old seats.

Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:52 pm

Frames down to bare metal and awaiting primer

Be careful with wire wheels doing this, b/c this could happen and get lodged into the seat springs :evil:

New headliner too

Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:29 pm

iaccy wrote: Doodoob wrote: Just wanted to say thanks for posting this! My 67 body is prety bad so I am swaaping in another that has better lines with a little cancer. Gonna use 2 bodies to make one good one!

Thanks! At least you have another car to use, that's the best way to go :D
Yeah I was bummed out prety bad when I found all the dammage. It was more than I thought.......so I got another body with no damage just cancer. So the plan is to cut up the original to weld in to the new body. Its the typical spots, heater chanel area of all four wheel wells. Also gonna swaap the rear apron/bumper brackets. Keep up the great work!

Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:25 pm

hey man

I picked up a MIG welder!

It's a small one, but it's a LINCOLN and was almost free, and NEW :) I can't wait to start practicing... Watching videos online, and looking for a class in the Seattle area.

... About to order MASTERSERIES Silver Seal and Chassis Black cans too!

Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:18 pm

ARTIFACT wrote: hey man

I picked up a MIG welder!

It's a small one, but it's a LINCOLN and was almost free, and NEW :) I can't wait to start practicing... Watching videos online, and looking for a class in the Seattle area.

... About to order MASTERSERIES Silver Seal and Chassis Black cans too!

Nice! that's awesome, congrats. The best thing you can do is practice on scrap metal you have, make sure the metal surface is clean before you start though, well you'll learn all that and more in the class when you find one. Good luck with the car!

Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:05 pm

Hey iaccy ,

That 67 looks great! Was it in the Terryville show? I'm wondering if I saw it at any of the shows last year.

Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:58 am

EA812 wrote: Hey iaccy ,

That 67 looks great! Was it in the Terryville show? I'm wondering if I saw it at any of the shows last year.

I went to all the CT shows this year, but I only drove it to Terryville and the the mid July CVA show. You're part of the CT Volkswagen Association aren't you?

Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:37 pm

iaccy wrote: EA812 wrote: Hey iaccy ,

That 67 looks great! Was it in the Terryville show? I'm wondering if I saw it at any of the shows last year.

I went to all the CT shows this year, but I only drove it to Terryville and the the mid July CVA show. You're part of the CT Volkswagen Association aren't you?

Yes I am. If you went to the Quassy show, My wife and I were the ones putting on the 1/64th scale race by the basketball court.

We didn't stay at the Terryville show long, the heat was bothering my son too much.

Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:29 am

Beautiful car and nice work you have done here.....

Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:15 pm

your car looked very nice ...

Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:53 am

ally07 wrote: your car looked very nice ...

endresta wrote: Beautiful car and nice work you have done here.....

Thanks guys! the hard work is definitely worth it in the end getting comments like that. My interior will be going in in the coming month or two, so I'll keep things posted. :D

Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:05 pm

Any progress on the interior??

Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:09 am

shano63 wrote: Any progress on the interior??

Yeah a little. I got my headliner installed last week at a family friends upholstery shop. My friends father hadn't put in a headliner in a beetle in a number of years, so I was kind of worried how it would come out, but it isn't terrible so I can't complain. It has a couple flaws, but hopefully the summer warmth will tighten everything up.

I took the rear window out to make it easier for the guy. It was a rather noisy ride :lol:

I'm hoping these wrinkles will work themselves out with the warmer temperatures :?

That's the other part near the sun visors that look funny. There's kind of a weird fold up there.