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halbug
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not really  - I would say they will be very akin to Porsche Nikasil. I have pretty radical ideas on these. I will open an own thread on the engine. First I need to find someone making them for me... The design is altmost ready.
But you caught my teaser 
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halbug
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Trail assembled the rear end. It's very busy back there, between the trailing arms...
I was searching spots to install all the parts for the transmission oiling/cooling as well for exhaust, rear brake calipers, heater tubes, the gas lines and the Käfer-Cup-Bar. I will have to address a lot of it again, when the body is fitted. Things are just too tight to guess. Either way, some brackets are already in the making.
The chassis went out to be professionally welded today
as always... very slow progress 
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Cool! I’m envisioning a modern version of Rodbuster with this build
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Wow.
Epic build.
Love the details. Thanks for taking the time to document it here.
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halbug
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:13 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia coming home |
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I got so many things going on 
First of all a happy New Year to all of you reading!
During the holydays I spent some more time on the aluminum cylinders...
I opened my Berg-5 transmission to modify some parts for improved oiling, as recommended by the Berg's.
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Please fit the seats first, I found that you don't want an "even plane". When I mounted the seats (Miata) in my car, I found that the front of the seat needed to be at least 1.5" higher than the rear or I was only sitting on my tail bone which became uncomfortable quickly.
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halbug
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:23 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia coming home |
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Making progress - slowly
Seat attachments are done. The outer rear pod is lower. The alumuminum spacer will be machined to fit under the track. This will give me an even plane, once the pan is mounted to the body.
Complete assembly
Small stuff, but it all takes time 
In parallel I am working on a custom fuel catch tank, because the space under the tank is very limited with the Mendeola, transmission oil cooling plus ton's of other things...
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halbug
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Hi Dave, very nice selection of Vdubs you have there!
My Ghia is from Germany, exported to Michigan and than brought back to Germany. BUT the pan I am using is a (altmost ) NOS replacement Thing pan built in Mexico...
The heater cable tube ran from the back of the pan to this one point on top of the tunnel shown on above picture. Similar to old bugs, but does not end in a turning knob for adjustment...
I had not seen this before. I know that VW Mexico has been building some unique stuff. I just assume the heater cable exits the pan at this point and somehow ends in an extra mechanism, maybe attached to the body?
Either way I welded it up, as I am now using the mechanism on the hand brake bracket now
Thanks
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:31 am Post subject: Re: Ghia coming home |
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Handbrake done:
Still not sure what ratchet plate to use or how to change the ones I have to make the handle sit like on the photo. I will start looking for ratchet plates on swap meets for the first time in my live
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halbug
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia coming home |
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I checked them, but unfortunately they do not give me an answer. But Thanks for letting me know!
It seems as the replacement pan I am using had an awkward heater cable set up. The cable tube that sticks out of the tunnel in the front is (was) the original heater cable tube 
The previous owner cut it at the hand brake position and modified all heater stuff in the tunnel to be like in a bug. Therefore he needed a handbrake bracket with provisions for the heater levers I suppose...
But question remains, how the heater boxes where operated in this Mexican Thing the pan was a replacement for
Cheers halbug
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; will these be akin to nickies™? (
