Aircooled VW South Africa

Pine wrote:Gauges in wood. I like - gives it a very classy look. Dumb question - cylinder head temperature gauge? Both cylinder heads, with an average reading of the two? Where is the sensor located? Your lights shouldn't be a problem, with those Golf lenses you should be able to fit a very bright halogen bulb. Might be that they are shining a bit high?

Hi Pine, yea, i'm glad i went for the wood Instr panel. CHT I took from the top cyl head bolt of No 3 Cylinder (being the hottest one behind the oil cooler). So I get the temp of the No3 cyl head (left head actually).

The lights were another story alltogether. I had a space problem behind the lenses -no space between front weels and light plugs!!! I edited the VW Golf lenses to accept the normal H4 bulb, as to have bright and dim. So i think the bulb is slightly too close to the front of the lens....dims ok, but bright is big circles!!

Dunno why they didn't make the kit as to accept the normal beetle lights, whould have made life much easier!!!

Saw in the CNA yesterday some Porsche Magazine (R110!) with a nice poster of a racing Spyder - an old black and white pic

Pine wrote:Saw in the CNA yesterday some Porsche Magazine (R110!) with a nice poster of a racing Spyder - an old black and white pic

Sorry for the hijack, but Ultra VW is the same price. Daylight robbery!

Pine wrote:Saw in the CNA yesterday some Porsche Magazine (R110!) with a nice poster of a racing Spyder - an old black and white pic

I've got a few original photos of racing RSK's from the 50's. They are black & white with some german writing on the back. I'll scan and post them too. They were all silver in color, but beautifull beasts. Did some research some time ago, and these original 718 RSK's developed 150 Hp!! Not bad for a 1600 4 cylinder aircooled engine!!!

Hey Guys!

I managed to upload some photos on Photobucket..... here is the link. If it works (I'm kinda idiot on the web) I' will post more of the building process.

Building Process: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... =727132236
Finished Project: http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm5/ ... mview=grid

Very cool frikkie now lets see some pic's of the car with the seatcover drapped over it.

vader wrote:Very cool frikkie now lets see some pic's of the car with the seatcover drapped over it.

Sorry vader, maybe I'm stupid but I dunno what u mean....

HI ,NICE RIDE.youre supposed to show pictures of the car and the person occupying the passenger seat

seatcover = woman...............lol.

flatfourfan wrote:seatcover = woman...............lol.

Gee thanx! This is even more difficult..... no women.....non pix of women.... What can I say, life's a BITCH. That maybe explains why I actually had time and money to finish the project in the first place!

Now you're just bragging!

Chris wrote:Now you're just bragging!

I wish!