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Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:28 am

quit wasting your time with that beetle and get that square fixed up.

Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:30 pm

70 140 wrote: quit wasting your time with that beetle and get that square fixed up.
watch your mouth in the late beetle forum :P

...part that square out here on theSamba of whats left after to get done raping her of what you want... make you some $$$ for the bug

Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:48 pm

Fattie wrote: 70 140 wrote: quit wasting your time with that beetle and get that square fixed up.
watch your mouth in the late beetle forum :P

This isn't the late beetle forum...

Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:50 pm

70 140 wrote: This isn't the late beetle forum...

Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:45 pm

well it started off in the late beelte forum :wink: .. so good enough and even if i wanted to work on the square back i dont have the funds to get that sucker rollin again... its rusted to hell...

Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:52 pm

oh and PatterBon the observant little bugger that he is noticed this on my bug...

and we were curious as to what it is?

Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:50 pm

Invisible Stuff wrote: well it started off in the late beelte forum :wink:
Backin' a fellow fatchick owner up... I like that champ

Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:16 pm

Invisible Stuff wrote:

and we were curious as to what it is?

Nitrous :twisted: haha, just kidding.

Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:19 pm

I was thinking about typing that :lol:

hook-up a nice 55hp shot "fogger"

Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:22 pm

Hey guys, here's some of the work that I did for Invisible Stuff..I'll try and post the pictures of the springs and stuff when we get closer to installing the brakes..But for now..here are some before and after pics of the drum and the backing plate.

Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:37 pm

Invisible Stuff wrote: oh and PatterBon the observant little bugger that he is noticed this on my bug...

and we were curious as to what it is?

Its a vacuum take off for boosted brakes usually on a bay kombi

Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:58 pm

well me and PatterBon popped the axel nut off the second drum today and took it apart and started to work on the passenger side disk but it just started to get dark :evil: so we packed up and hopefully after tomorrow ill have a second assembly looking purdy. Again thanks PatterBon,

Winter break is here so hopefully i can finish the discs and install all the sweet goodies ive been stock piling and anything else that comes my way for christmas :P

Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:39 pm

Some interesting things that Invisible Stuff and I dug up. The VIN decoder that Fattie just posted up on the Fat Chick forum..His VIN # is 1102406296..When we entered in the number, his beetle came up as a
1970 -UK Historic Tax Class What is that? Also, on the tag inside the door jam, it says its a 1969..So late production maybe? Sounds like its a Unique Bug.

Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:53 pm

[quote="simon34"] Invisible Stuff wrote: oh and PatterBon the observant little bugger that he is noticed this on my bug...

and we were curious as to what it is?[/q
Its a vacuum take off for boosted brakes usually on a bay kombi

not sure about that but when i pulled a motor out of a autostick it had the same outlet for the autostick setup. I had to plug and clamp it off like that one is. Motor or intake might have come from a autostick bug

Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:20 pm

The engine is a 1600cc Dual Port..its code is correct for a March 1972...And his is a late 1969 - Early 1970..So the engine is incorrect for the car..The tins are also mismatched..So the engine is sort of a mess (sorry bud) But I've never seen that kind of a manifold before and I work at a VW shop.

Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:43 pm

hey man ill be the first to agree with ya on that one, its not something you or i did so its not like we can take any shame out of it being miss matched, but now the PO?.. me and him are gonna have words next time we meet... :wink:

Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:54 pm

Yeah..a bat to the knees is what he's in need of. That poor engine..He claiming to have rebuilt it..Your exhaust is terrible and the manifold I think has us all confused...But I think that it was meant to be a 'performance' upgrade going from a SP to a DP...But I'm super curious to know what the meaning of your year is..Perhaps you have a car from the UK? I know it's not your cup of tea (Ahaha funny British joke :lol: ) But if its something rare..I'd find the stock paint for that sucks and put a SP back in it..Me being the purist that I am though.. :P

Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:04 pm

if it is something rare then i'd definitely have to go stock, but not to dash your hopes and dreams of converting me to your purist ways but just a few people have been having issues with the vin finder, but if for whatever god forsaken reason my poor abused beetle is in any way unique ill just have to go stock and find another beetle to continue on with the plans i have for this one, maybe ill find myself my own 73.... :twisted:

Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:12 pm

:P :x Leave the 73's out of it..Fattie has set a fine president for what a custom 73' should be..Pic off one of em 68's! :lol:

Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:15 pm

idk.. if i pick up a 60's bug my dad will try to get involved and you know what'll happen if he gets his hands on it.. i dont think your tender lil heart could handle it.. :wink: but seriously.. find me a late 60's convertible and ill leave your precious 73's alone.. :twisted: