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Mexicant
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Joined: December 31, 2010
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Location: Colorado
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Finally got the 67 registered and road ready. 
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LyonMan
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Joined: February 06, 2005
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Here is my 1965 Baja the 'Gray Racer' restored with my kids over the last few years. I wanted a modern car that I could daily drive comfortably. This baja has IRS, 2387 cc motor, bus trans, fuel injection (Megasquirt), air conditioning, gas heater, long travel front beam, 27mm torsion bars, cutting brakes and much more.
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tobiism
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Joined: January 21, 2004
Posts: 502
Location: Chandler AZ
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job dude, looks great!!!!!
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Finally got the 67 registered and road ready.
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HOTMOPR
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Joined: December 14, 2013
Posts: 72
Location: Rochester, Wa
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Heres my new project I got a couple weeks ago,,
I have a roof rack for it I plan on mounting a few lights to it. I am trying to figure out what color to paint it. Leaning towards the same dark blue and then bed liner on the fenders and lower nose piece. Also a bigger front tire. Probably a 215/75/15 BFG mud terrain km2.. Gotta get some heat going in it too!! |
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greggearhead
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Joined: June 20, 2004
Posts: 563
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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As I trailered it home after sitting for a long, long time in Wyoming.
Yes, that's a Buick 215 V8 in the back.
Pulled the 356 brakes off, put all new VW brakes, hoses and wheel bearings on, installed some seats and harness belts, relocated the Porsche 914 steering rack to get rid of some bump steer, added shock mounts to the 3x3 arms, sealed up the shock holes in the body, etc etc. Added a Porsch 924 Speedo, already had an 091 trans - added a NEW 1800 (74 x 8 mini stroker with a single Weber 40 and it was ready to go! Sold, BTW - went to Utah. Liked having it, though...
Pre-compound:
Mid process:
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brs1997
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Joined: November 30, 2013
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Location: utah
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SMN
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Joined: October 27, 2009
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Location: St. Louis
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:25 pm Post subject: Installed winch;) |
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dustymojave
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Joined: January 07, 2007
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Location: Lake LA, Mojave Desert, SoCal
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Heres my new project I got a couple weeks ago,,
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I like the paint treatment on the wheels. Took a bit of work to mask those. Did you do it? Or did the PO?
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| ... Also a bigger front tire. Probably a 215/75/15 BFG mud terrain km2.. |
That should be a good choice!
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| Gotta get some heat going in it too!! |
Does it have heater boxes? I have them on mine. The factory style slip joints where the header meets the heater box exhaust tube end tends to slip and leak constantly.So I put the headers on the car with a pair of 2-bolt flanges on each of the heater box ends, weld flanges to the flared end on the headers, and weld the other pair to the heater boxes. It self jigs on the exhaust tube. I don't use gaskets between the flanges as they allow movement that then lets the bolts come loose. The slip joints have a lot of overlap anyway.
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Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
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cjward22
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Joined: January 18, 2014
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Location: puyallup, Washington state
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hay new to the site and just looking for some opinions and some feed back on what to do next! I traded my chevy wheeler for this thing as a body and have had to much fun toying around on it.
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HOTMOPR
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Joined: December 14, 2013
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Location: Rochester, Wa
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I like the paint treatment on the wheels. Took a bit of work to mask those. Did you do it? Or did the PO?
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| Gotta get some heat going in it too!! |
Does it have heater boxes? I have them on mine. The factory style slip joints where the header meets the heater box exhaust tube end tends to slip and leak constantly.So I put the headers on the car with a pair of 2-bolt flanges on each of the heater box ends, weld flanges to the flared end on the headers, and weld the other pair to the heater boxes. It self jigs on the exhaust tube. I don't use gaskets between the flanges as they allow movement that then lets the bolts come loose. The slip joints have a lot of overlap anyway. |
The wheels were done that way when I got it. Wheels are a little different than other wagon wheels Ive seen. These have tiny recesses around the triangles. they are about 3/8" wide.. For tires I ended up getting BFG all terrains in the 215/75. It doesn't have heater boxes the exhaust goes up high behing the spark plugs. Ive been trying to snag a gas heater for it but they are either really spendy or junk. Not much in the middle of the road stuff |
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Hamsterben
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Joined: December 05, 2011
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Location: Kooskia Idaho
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Rebuilt the entire turbo setup today got it running a whole lot better and looks better now. Oh and I hit a tree the other day. |
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profile6
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Joined: February 03, 2014
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Location: Bakersfield, CA
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:19 pm Post subject: California City. |
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1 trip down, 5 more to go!
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taylor5081
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Joined: September 19, 2011
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Location: Hesperia CA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| I just picked my baja up about 3 weeks ago |
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68ohiobug
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Joined: October 26, 2012
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Location: Southeast Ohio
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tobiism
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Joined: January 21, 2004
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Location: Chandler AZ
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Great job, that looks awesome on those sprintstars!!!
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68ohiobug
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Location: Southeast Ohio
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BUGGUTZ
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Joined: March 13, 2007
Posts: 537
Location: Luzerne Mich
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| Hey taylor5081 sweet baja. How about some more pics and info on that ride? |
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taylor5081
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Joined: September 19, 2011
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Location: Hesperia CA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Hey taylor5081 sweet baja. How about some more pics and info on that ride? |
Thank you it has a 6" over beam, longer trailing arms, combo spindles, king coilovers, 3x3's 2165cc.
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scubaaron
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Joined: April 15, 2009
Posts: 32
Location: Kitsap
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Just picked this up this week...had bad brakes but what "new" project not come with issues? Ha ha, second Type 1 but first baja...
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1776cc
74 Bus Tranny
2.5 in raised spindles
3 in body lift
31 in tires
Pop up sunroof
Overall, pretty clean and solid. |
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craigman
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Location: redding
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| Looks like fun to me! |
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