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yammi450
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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: looking for sizes of pans |
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| I'm considering building a buggy using this shell http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=719550 and building my own chassis incorperated into a 67 or older vw pan for registration purposes. My question is what are the differences between a bug, thing, gia, and type 3 pan (length and width). wider and longer is better. |
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runslikeapenguin
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Ghia, Thing and bug are all the same pan, same length and dimensions, the only thing that changes is the floor pans. so if your going balls out on a car that wont matter. T3 however is a whole different world. the frame head is totally different, the torsion housings are removable on some and so on. don't use a T3 pan.
i would contact the seller and ask what pans he uses. they look like ghia/ thing pans actually.
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yammi450
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not planning on using the stock torsions. possibly extending the chassis looking for possibly a longer pan. I want to go with the longest pan possible and extending it if necessary. looking for 115 to117 wheel base. I plan on using aluminum for floor pan and using the stock tunnel. |
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crazyman1
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Acording to the add you can use a VW type 1 bug or superbeetle pan as well as a Thing (type 181) or Karmann Ghia pan. |
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runslikeapenguin
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| I'm not planning on using the stock torsions. possibly extending the chassis looking for possibly a longer pan. I want to go with the longest pan possible and extending it if necessary. looking for 115 to117 wheel base. I plan on using aluminum for floor pan and using the stock tunnel. |
all the pans are the same length. your best be would be cutting the front end off and extending there and possibly moving the rear back a few inches.
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yammi450
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| OK cool. I've talked to the seller, he said that he uses any pan and replaces with wider halfs. I was just wondering about lenght. I was thinking about using the front & rear bulk heads along with the tunnel, but now I don't think I will. Do you guys see any complications with registration in Nevada using only the tunnel, or maybe part of the tunnel? |
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