What did you do on your car today?

Give details and pictures of your ACVW projects here.
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Post by Noodles »

And fitted real seatbelts:
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Post by Wentzel »

Ordered my new clutch and pressure plates. Now I need to take out the engine to get the flywheel and new clutch balanced. Not looking forward to it but will arrange someone to assist as spanner boy :D
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Post by gman1034 »

today I have finished building all parts required for converting the 4AGE TO TURBO :D
install tonight and tomorrow car starts, then dyno saturday :hangloose:
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As i don't have a project yet, I did some web searching for a 11 or 13 window Bus for sale. I then realised that i need to save up some more before i buy one. I then went and refitted the turbo pipe on my TD5 Land Rover because it popped off the other day.
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Post by Cyndi Kritzinger »

Nothing today because nobody had the valve guides i need but follow my posts on,"HAVE YOU SEEN CYNDI'S BRAZILIA" (corrected) for regular posts of my project.

Thanx

Cyndi :wink:
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Drove the snot out of it...........................
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Post by retrovan »

Cyndi Kritzinger wrote:Nothing today because nobody had the valve guides i need but follow my posts on,"HAVE YOU SEEN CYNDI'S BRAZILIA" (corrected) for regular posts of my project.

Thanx

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Hi Cyndi, to change the "HAVE YOU SEEN CYNDI'S BRAZILIA" you must edit the 1st post on this thread, then it will change all future posts

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Re: What did you do on your car today?

Post by Tony Z »

retrovan wrote:
Cyndi Kritzinger wrote:Nothing today because nobody had the valve guides i need but follow my posts on,"HAVE YOU SEEN CYNDI'S BRAZILIA" (corrected) for regular posts of my project.

Thanx

Cyndi :wink:
Hi Cyndi, to change the "HAVE YOU SEEN CYNDI'S BRAZILIA" you must edit the 1st post on this thread, then it will change all future posts

:wink:

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flatfourfan wrote:Drove the snot out of it...........................
NICE!!!!!
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Post by Tony Z »

Over the last 2 weeks...
got casing welded
changed axle boots and tightened gearbox bolts
installed engine
started and synched carbs

then today, I drove her into the driveway and cleaned the garage
she sounds sweet and no oil leaks yet.
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Post by Cyndi Kritzinger »

HELLO EVERYONE.

TODAY I REMOVED THE CRANCKSHAFT PULLEY AND THE PETROL TANK.
ALSO STARTED TO CLEAN UP THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT.
CYNDI AWAY WITH HER COUSINS FOR 2 WEEKS AND SO I WILL TRY TO POST.

MARK (CYNDI'S DAD)
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Post by Stütz »

1) Ordered new sunvisors and clips to replace the teabags that are currently in place. The cost of these is completely off the wall but I decided to spoil myself for my birthday. (Think I'm going to have the teabags rebuilt and keep for spares.)
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2) Ordered a Vintage Speed 1½" exhaust system with matching j-pipes to go with the dual Weber 36 IDFs and 'head job' we are going to be doing sometime soonish.
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3) Started to clean 42 years of grime out of the cabin. This is going to be a major pain in de ass but tackling it section by section is the way to go.
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Post by bugspray »

Drove it :D to the Aircooled Wonders meet. Then drove it some more! Sooo awesome driving it after a long time.

Need to bleed the brakes, and remove those damn spacers in the wheels, causing a crazy wobble on the steering.

Can I run the mags and adapters without the spacers, on a standard suspension? Any issues?
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Post by 62vwbeetle »

Swooped rims and tyres on the porsche drove her 50 ks at illegal speeds heheheh not to slow for a 44 yr old car. Took the 62 Vw for a blast arround the block and collected a kick ass stock 78 one owner bug with my mate
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Re: What did you do on your car today?

Post by Wentzel »

Went for a drive after some timing changes on the computer and she feels much better!! Problem is now that the map ends at 6000 RPM and she wants more :twisted: Modified the map tonight and want to get it ready for the open road and CITP on Sunday.
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