MN bumpered Bay

moxnix · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:20 am Post subject:

Hope we see you at the bug in , good luck
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joey944 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:29 pm Post subject:

briancustoms · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:09 pm Post subject:

briancustoms · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:06 am Post subject:

Just a little update. Overtime at work, lack of motivation when I do have time, and being out of town for a long wedding weekend have kept me from moving forward quickly. That, and unforeseen tweaks that I had to make.

I got the driver's side all bracketed up and welded.

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But, before I could do that, I had some narrowing issues. My passenger side radius arm fit perfectly, but, due to the asymmetrical shape of the nose cone on the trans, I needed to narrow the driver's side radius arm about 1 1/4".

Then bag mock up started. As well as more sheetmetal cutting. At this point, I'm going to try and get all the necessary sheetmetal back in (engine sealing, gas tank mounting, etc.), but I think it will just end up being easier to build a new floor instead of trying to put the floor that I cut out back in with the needed raise.

I fabbed up some lower bag mounts, upper plates, and notch fish plates/bridge plates.

The lower plates have been tacked up and tacked to the radius arms at this point, and I have my upper bag mounts marked out on sheet steel, just need to cut them out sometime this week hopefully.

briancustoms · Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 2:11 pm Post subject:

Forward progress on the bridge.

Got my bridge and radius arms all mocked up and tacked and pulled out to fully weld.

Fully welded and then installed.

Unfortunately, this is where I'm going to take a break on the bus. There may be another shot in the next few days after I get it off of the stands and pushed outside so I can swap spots in the garage. With two projects in different stages, I'd feel rather depressed if I wasn't able to drive at least one of them now that the weather is getting nice and shows are starting. With my Volkstruck only needing basic maintenance to get back to driving status, I'm going to focus on that and be able to have something at our local Bug In, Back to the Fifties, and Camp n Drag this summer. As soon as I can, I'll get back to this project and hopefully be able to drive it at some point this year.

briancustoms · Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 11:03 am Post subject:

At least got it off of the stands last night. Hopefully it dries up around here by tomorrow so I can get some shots of it outside.

cdennisg · Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject:

Damn, that is a ton of nice work you've done. Maybe I missed it, but is there a reason you didn't ditch the mustache bar mount and convert to the early bus/beetle style frame horns? It seems to be a much better setup for max ground clearance.
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briancustoms · Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:26 pm Post subject:

cdennisg · Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 9:16 am Post subject:

Good point.
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westco-deluxe · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 5:16 pm Post subject:

looks killer!! at 6'3" im interested in the seats, did you fab them up or ??

briancustoms · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:58 am Post subject: Re: MN bumpered Bay

She's still unfinished, but very close. Sadly, I've burnt out on her and posted a For Sale ad in the classifieds.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1947816


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