Project Slowly Underway: Berrien 295

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Dropped off the wheels to get burnt, blasted, and powder coated. Hopefully done next week.

Lots to do the next couple weeks. Wife and I just bought a house and the closing date is a week and a half sooner than expected. I’m pretty excited to have a good year round workspace. It has a 32x40 fully finished off, plumbed, and heated poll barn. Comes lith a hydraulic two post car lift as well. Kind of found the property by accident, and things just worked out, so it was meant to be.
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[Brian]

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It's all in geography man.
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Richard
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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Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

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Now the question is how do I trailer a buggy over with two wheels.. Haha, this could be interesting.

And why exactly is California so dog-gone expensive. It’s like every month they add some new ridiculous tax or something, and they are still going broke. Sounds like it is time for a major change of management over there. Well, if you are taxed to death, you could always come to Michigan!
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Rarely ever natural disaster in MI... no earthquakes, no hurricanes or big tornadoes... just some snow once in a while and the worst of all - humidity!
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4 seater Appletree buggy, road legal with 002 IRS, 3x3 Appletree kit, 6" over Dan's beam with 10" towers and Fox 2.0 shocks, '00 Subaru EJ25 with KEP stage 3 clutch and KEP adapter plate.

my build page: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=662104&start=0

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I hear you man.

Anyways, the lift works. Before I use it I want to check how square the posts are because they were bolted down onto different pourings of concrete in the floor. If not, I’ll have to shim one side a bit to make sure that the lift points don’t spread as it is raised/lowered.


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[Brian]

Yo, I'm coming over to your place next time I need to do some work.
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'69 Bug
'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

Only losers litter

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Thanks guys, and yes it is new, well, a little over a year old. Good as new though.

Well, got everything moved over to the new house. For the time being we threw everything in the barn, so it is a bit cluttered for now while we sort out where to put things in the house.


Anyways, it is nice to have a lift hold the back up while I work on getting the rear suspension sorted out.

Never mind all the boxes from moving in the background...or the dog photobombing.

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The 6” wide smoothies that I cut the center out and rewelded in for zero offset got powered coated and the tires remounted.

Now on to finishing up the rear end.

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Those wheels turned out really nice !!
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The lift is VERY Cool!

My buddy has a 2-post like that in his home shop. Damned handy to have in the shop. He also has a 4-post and a portable Snap-On scissor lift. All are handy. Lots o' damned work setting them all up.

He used to be a mechanic at a Honda/Acura dealer. They had those lifts there and decided to upgrade. So they sold him those for $500 each. For the same price, he got a euro tire machine and a spin balancer. Not each, but for the pair. Same source as the Acura NSX engine in his 4-seater (warranty replaced for a leaking oil pan - He replaced the pan.).

Those smoothies are similar to the ones on the back of my Baja Bug in that old black & white pic you've seen elsewhere on here. 15 x 7" Kelsey Hayes rims for Corvette Rally wheels, with VW smoothy centers welded in by Les Choate (Burro Buggies and the 1st Baja 100). So those wheels are 6" rims with 3" back space, right? I presume that's what you mean by zero offset.
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Richard
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
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

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Yeah, that’s right Richard. Zero offset, 3” back spacing. So, it is a little more aggressive on the rear bearings than stock, but not too bad. Some people run crazy offsets, and all I can think of is “poor ball bearings.” They just aren’t made for that sort of stress. And you wonder why so many people complain of ball bearings blowing up.

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My 7" rims are stock 3.75" back space. So pretty similar. Les Choate knew what he was doing when he built those wheels.
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Richard
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
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

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While working on the spring plates, I found that the splined area shrunk a bit and was tight on the splines. I had some old torsion bars I made into a makeshift broach to open up the splines again under the weld. Worked pretty good. Really had to beat them through the first couple times. It all worked out though. I have had this happen when welding nuts. They shrink just enough that you can’t quite get a bolt through and have to tap it, but the tap gets stuck because it is so close if cold forms the material back into shape rather than cut it. Interesting thing shrinkage is.

Also got the battery mounted in with some custom hold downs. Also working on the pedals as well. More pics when I get around to it.
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I got the pedals in and started working on cable routing. Not being a fan of tubes that always seem to pack up with crap off road, I went with pulleys. I got some nice heavy steel pulleys for the clutch cable, and some small nylon pulleys on ball bearings for the throttle cable. I attached the nylon pulleys to the heavy steel pulley mounting brackets. I have to put a few couple more in behind the seats, but you get the idea.

Also got the battery hold down situated. I had an old rubber one that was far to wide, so I cut some out of the middle and made an aluminum spreader to go over top. The wing nuts were drilled so I could snap a spring between the two. That will keep them from backing off allowing the battery to shake around.

While I had the box of electrics unpacked from moving, I slapped the lights loosely on just so I could toss another box into the recycle and make more room in the barn. Still pretty crapped up from moving.

Still not quite sure where I want to put the front turn lights yet.
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You might look into those headlights that fit those housings and have amber turn lights in the bottom. I presume those are 7" lamps there.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/upd-s2010led?se...gL73fD_BwE
My search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=head+lights+with+t...irefox-b-1

With other separate turn lamps, you could mount them to tabs off the bumper near the head lights. Or mount them to the top of the shock towers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=turn+indicator+lam...mp;bih=786

Summit has LED flashers to work with LED indicator lamps. Listed with a link on that headlight page in the link above.
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Richard
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
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

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Not a bad option, looks kinda cool. How visible is the turn signal when the headlights are on?

Clutch Cable is shortened and routed through the pulleys. To terminate the transaxle end of the cable, I cut the stock M7 threaded end off and welded it onto a slightly modified three jaw cable camp. Works slick.

This is the three jaw cable clamp taken apart along with the stock threaded end I cut off.

I notched the eye of the cable clamp for a little more weld area between the clamp and M7 threaded end.

Routing pulleys

And the cable clamp modified for the stock wing nut

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