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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 7:14 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
LOL great analogy! Yeah i think it is made in Brazil and he added a few custom touches to his mounting process. He has one on his not pictured red beetle also and customized that mount as well
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 6:32 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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ate lunch and while waiting for my friend in his Westie, the orange buggy stopped by. Then a purple buggy not shown came by. Later we met another Friend in the Gold Sun Bug convertible and cruised around more


Wow I've never seen a safari on a bay window! Must be some seriously mounted arms. Looks like a guy wearing a golf visor!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 6:09 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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ate lunch and while waiting for my friend in his Westie, the orange buggy stopped by. Then a purple buggy not shown came by. Later we met another Friend in the Gold Sun Bug convertible and cruised around more
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:42 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 5:20 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Post work on Labor Day Monday. OThing doing some river beach time
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 3:51 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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1st Family shot with all 4 together
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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weather along the NJ shore was great this past week
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2025 4:53 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Back on the road after 6 months off
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:47 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Thanks! I see Jbugs sells a similar setup for a lot less than ThingParts.com that would likely benefit from a coating of heat resistant paint. Much nicer than some of those other exhaust options.


i paid 399.00 plus tax and shipping so it came to 437.99 but that was in march 2020 right before covid hit. it is a dansk version. i am sure costs went up everywhere on it though the jbugs one is probably similar.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:08 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Thanks! I see Jbugs sells a similar setup for a lot less than ThingParts.com that would likely benefit from a coating of heat resistant paint. Much nicer than some of those other exhaust options.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 4:56 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
I bought it from www.thingparts.com. It is DANSK brand. Im not sure that its available any longer. I had it blasted and then painted with high temperature paint.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Exhaust/muffler system was blasted and painted with high temp paint and installed by the shop today.


Nice Thing! That's a sweet exhaust system. Can I ask where you got it?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:43 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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waiting for rear mounts
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:13 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Wow. It's good luck actually that the bolt stopped at the valve and didn't drop into the chamber. Relatively speaking of course. Did it bend the valve or mar the seat, or just prop it open?


yes it was luck. I stopped the minute it knocked and i lost power. The entire head was redone in and out. waiting to have the engine put back in it as it was running the best it ever had in the 6 years i have had it.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:11 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Great stuff.
That bolt getting in the valves though! What are the chances?


I have had this kind of luck since i started with VW's in 1989. If it is near impossible to happen then it will certainly happen to one of my VW's
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 6:49 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Wow. It's good luck actually that the bolt stopped at the valve and didn't drop into the chamber. Relatively speaking of course. Did it bend the valve or mar the seat, or just prop it open?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:32 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Great stuff.
That bolt getting in the valves though! What are the chances?
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engine pull after lack of power and a knock. lost bolt wound up in the heads
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Looking good! (what's a blaze cut?)


https://www.mrbusco.com/collections/blazecut
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