My beamish buggy rebuild & mod's

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A little update for a change. At last i'm finished with the pan, the suspension all welded in and everything spray painted

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Lêkkeste, ek sê...
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:hangloose: looking good, motor also looks nice .....
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arnocill wrote:
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Are those, std shocks or coil-overs.

Can not wait to see the final product.

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The tension is mounting.....can't wait to see the finished product! Looking good!
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Thanks guys.
It's standard gas shocks, all i did was to cut off the upper tube of the shock and fit rubber dust covers to give it a different look.
I can't wait to get it finished and drive it either, at least i got a whole winter ahead to get it done :D
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This weekend i started on a new front bumper skid plate thingy.
Apart from cosmetic it will also protect the steering rack hanging under the pan.
There's a piece or two that must still be added, but the weekend came to an end :cry: :x

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that looks pretty insane!!!
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Wow >>>> way to go !
Just love ther rims - keep the updates coming :hangloose:
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Is that Golf steering racks you are using???
Why do we celebrate the guy that invented the wheel??
Surely we must celebrate the guy tat invented the other three
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Is that Golf steering racks you are using???
Yes thats correct, mk1 Golf to be specific
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arnocill wrote:Well lets see how long the bosch electronics will last
Good luck mine lasted me 3 days :roll:

What Carb are you running with?
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SouL wrote:
arnocill wrote:Well lets see how long the bosch electronics will last
Good luck mine lasted me 3 days :roll:

What Carb are you running with?
Then you must have had bad luck, cause they normally last many years and plenty km's in a Golf.

The carb is a 32/36 dgv weber.
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arnocill wrote: Then you must have had bad luck, cause they normally last many years and plenty km's in a Golf.
Ye well tell me about it...still rather pissed off about it anyway...You know where I can get the internals from...it's a Bosch 009 dizzy?
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I'm not sure but is'nt the 009 a points dizzy? In your case fitted with an ignitor?
I used the internals from a Golf dizzy and fitted that to the stock beetle dizzy. You will get Golf distributors at any scrapyard, if it's an ignitor you're looking for try Callooker
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