Revival of the fittest - new buggy build

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:53 pm

Thanks for the update!!

IS that a very rare, 1969 only Type 4 200mm clutch?

Post by **IMPI** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:41 pm

Be aware that those 200mm flywheels are cast and thus not the best idea for mega horsepower engines
the late vanagon type 4 engines had a forged flywheel
A

vader · Post by **vader** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:06 pm

Fasbyt boet!

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:29 pm

Raait - so this is where we are now - body has been fitted. The roll-bars still need to be powder coated as well as the mag wheels - maybe a dark grey or black ( almost gun metal )

Will post more as work progresses.

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:33 pm

Thanks for the update!!

SUZIE · Post by **SUZIE** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:26 am

nice , what colour you going to make the buggy?

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:10 am

It's gonna stay white. I'm hoping to powder coat the wheels and rollbars etc with a dark grey colour and black seats and interior, white gauges and install a middle console around the gear lever that runs upto the dash.

Still wondering what type of speedo to put in - that speedo in the 4age project (turbo project) is very nice but waaayy to expensive for me.

I see yours is also white - you did a very good job of refurbishing it!

I'll be starting the wiring today (Monday) and weld up a different front bumperbar for it, if all goes well. That accident that Pine was involved in made me reconsider the extent to what the bumper bars and roll bars are fastened to the body. I'm going to try and fasten most, if not all to the chassis. (not that I'm saying that in his case it would have made a difference - you can't stop a truck) but in a minor accident they should be up to the task of protecting the car better. You kow in our cases there's only a thin piece of fiberglass between us and the other guy's 4x4.

Enjoy the week!

Mario

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:29 pm

Front bumpers modified

Finally got the rollcage to fit properly. You pay a lot of money and then it doesn't fit - grind off the studs re-weld and try and bend it then the OEM weld breaks loose, then re-weld again. Man what a hassle!

O jah - the kids drawing is just to show a friend where the bottom spots are going to be fitted.

SUZIE · Post by **SUZIE** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:14 am

hi Airpower, You were asking about were dos the battery sits, look under my buugy projeck, the last pics i uploaded this morning shows were it comes, Your buggy looks cool with that bull bar

Aircooledwannabee · Post by **Aircooledwannabee** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:37 pm

Lookin good swaer we did a great job on daai front bumper

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:27 pm

From here on this thread will deal only with the building of the buggy body. The type 4 conversion and motor will be dealt with in another post.

Post by **Bugger** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:48 pm

OK then We get your point

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:44 pm

These are the gauges that will go into the buggy - that speedo took me about 2 weeks to change (broke the first one)

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:25 pm

Those gauges are nice.I have the fuel gauge of that make in my DC.

AirPower · Post by **AirPower** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:32 pm

Thanks Chris.

How difficult is it to fit the fuel gauge? I was looking at it at the shop, but decided against it because I didn't know how the sender unit fits into the tank.

Aircooled VW South Africa

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