Hot Wheels 2 - Pine's new Buggy build thread

[Dutch_Diver]

I love those wheels too!

[flatfourfan]

less is more......................damn hot.

[Ron&Gill]

I also like the full moon hubcaps. Damn, Pine, we musta bought the same Volksworld magazine...

[beetlefanatic]

...but my ULTIMATE buggy wheel is the American Racing Torque Thrust II

Close enough Pine?

http://johannesburg.gumtree.co.za/c-Car ... Z232873277

[Pine]

Update 6/11/2010

A lot of time has past since my previous post, but in the meanwhile I've been busy with a few small things on HW2 - not really important enought to post here, but still neccessary to complete the project. At this stage I need to have the roll cage powder coated first, then I can carry on with the final assembly.

Got the front steel wheels back - not 100% happy with the work done on them, but they have to do for now. I also got the seats back that were handed in a few months ago for re-upholstery, after threatening the black idiot who worked on them with legal action (an a few p...sklappe ). They are only halfway completed, and it looks terrible - obviously I did not pay for it, and reposessed my seats. In the meanwhile I will use a set of old buckets I have, and cover them with a set of blue and black 4x4 off-roader seat covers I bought at a a fraction of what the re-upholstery would have cost me. I am pretty gatvol for pathetic work done by so-called 'professionals' for which they expect good money, and I am sure many of you feel that way too. I really go out of my way to support local initiative, businesses and skills but if someone f..s me around, they will NEVER see me again!

For now - a 'mock-up' pic I took this morning of HW2 to get an idea of what it will (hopefully) look like in the end..

[karmakoma]

Lyk fantasties, ek sal 'n buggy oorweeg as hy so lyk !

Sterkte met die laaste paar dinge (wat gewoonlik die langste vat!)

[Tony Z]

looking brilliant Pine - good work

I think you need

[Blitzkrieg]

I also got the seats back that were handed in a few months ago for re-upholstery, after threatening the black idiot who worked on them with legal action (an a few p...sklappe ). They are only halfway completed, and it looks terrible - obviously I did not pay for it, and reposessed my seats. In the meanwhile I will use a set of old buckets I have, and cover them with a set of blue and black 4x4 off-roader seat covers I bought at a a fraction of what the re-upholstery would have cost me. I am pretty gatvol for pathetic work done by so-called 'professionals' for which they expect good money, and I am sure many of you feel that way too. I really go out of my way to support local initiative, businesses and skills but if someone f..s me around, they will NEVER see me again!

Ha! One day when I'm in a happier mood, ask me what happened to my Porsche seats when I gave them to a so-called Pro. Took me two months to get them back, in a rather depressing state compared to what they were like Fortunately the uncle who's doing my carpeting is going to try and salvage what he can from the mess...

I think that the general attitude in the car scene is like this - crap work at an exorbitant rate with sh#### service....and people ask why ACVWs are exported??!

Nevertheless, the Buggy is looking great

[Pine]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the compliments and it is a great motivator. I've just spent the past 3 hours adjusting the rear torision bars (again), but they are right now - at last!

When I assembled the chassis last year, I couldn't really determine the rear suspension height/stiffness, as the engine and body was not on yet. I ended up setting them up too stiff - they were so hard that the rear didn't even move downwards with TWO persons on it! So earlier this year I disassembled everything again and adjusted it - but it turned out the suspension was too soft, and as you can see in the pic above, HW2 resembled a low rider for a while - yuck!

Unfortunately I had to take the outer cv's on both sides off, in order for the trailing arm to drop low enough to seperate from the (double) spring plates. I managed to set both sides at the same angle (b.m.o. and improvised protractor) an lucklily I did not lose any fingers putting the spring plates under tension for the re-assembly

I did not take any pictures, as it is quite a messy job (eg. CV grease - yuck! ) - but you can read all about the procedure here http://www.vw-resource.com/rearaxle.html

[Bugandy]

Pine,
Your buggy is looking really great and also offers wonderful inpiration - well for me anyways. THANKS for the updates and also your other various posts. Now let me think what I should go and do on mine.......... at the moment been busy with this....but have gotten much further now

[BUGGOFF]

mooi man, dit lyk goed.

[beetlefanatic]

Pine the buggy is looking great! Well done!

I can't wait to see what the sprintstars are going to look like on it.

[flatfourfan]

pine, damn she's looking handsome...........awesome work bro.

[Dutch_Diver]

Your buggy is so cool Pine!

['72]

THIS BUG LOOKS AMAZING! When i was a kid, my father built a buggy which was a tastefull spinoff of the kango range and since then i haven't seen anything that looks near as tastefull till now! You've really got an eye for this kind of thing:)