slambulance

Ninove 2010

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:36:33 +0100

14th March in Ninove: The early Bay Bonanza!

EXhaust works

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:38:40 +0100

And since we started the day with some exhaust works, we just contintued, but for teh bus this time.

Instead of teh standard exhaust, it needed a 4in1 with a Mondo exhaust which also requires some cutting and welding to make it all fit!

Cutting to bend the muffler flange downwards

Now we need to bridge this gap

After lots of trial fitting and trimming:

The modifed MONDO, ready for the bus!

Last test fit before some paint and final fitment

4in1 for a 30horse

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:28:52 +0100

Since a 4in1 is not existing (actually it is but extremely hard to find) it is time to convert a later 1200 into one that fits the 30horse

First check... that seems a bit croocked!

So the right side needs to be lower so it all sits nice and horizontal, so after some cutting in teh left tubes:

In teh above pic you can see the right side needed to be shortened with about 22mm. SO off comes that corner

And all welded again! The top fits nicely again... next week it is time to connect to the lower heater tubes (the diameter of tubes did not match, so a new piece of pipe needed to be sourced!)

HAPPY X-MAS

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:45:27 +0100

Ninove

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:03:11 +0100

Another one:-)

With Jeans Bay as the first in the left lane...

Freddy Files!

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:09:55 +0100

Place to be: NINOVE city:-)

Converting a rear apron

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:27 +0100

How do you convert a freshly painted later apron into an earlier model without messing up the paint? Just make an insert to be fixed with rivets!

The new inset to be

folding

Welding on the top 2 and lower 2 corners

testfitting

Making the locking tab

All ready for some paint

Ready with a factory clean look!

Convertible!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:34:48 +0100

Check out the latest VolksWorld issue or the volksworld site for the car of the week!!

http://www.volksworld.com/news/cars/433478/third-time-lucky-55-oval-cab.html

Not many of us will ever have the opportunity to own one Oval Cabriolet, but for Belgium’s Peter Biesman this is his third. Lucky...

These days it seems you're nobody if you haven't got a Split, but not that long ago it was Ovals everyone lusted after. Now, if the gang here at VolksWorld HQ are to be believed, it's so-called early big windows that are the hot ticket, but then they're just saying that because they haven't got Ovals or Splits, like real men. Ever since seeing Samantha Oldbury's lowered, green and cream Oval at one of the German Car Company open days in Hadleigh all those years ago I've been an Oval man - there's just something about their simplicity and the inherent flow of the body lines that works. To my mind, the Beetle's design peaked here and went downhill ever after. And I'm not alone in thinking that. Elvis would have had an Oval if he hadn't bought a Beach Buggy and it's a little known fact that James Dean was on his way to buy an Oval when he stacked his 550 Spyder. Peter Biesman of the FlatLine Lowriders club is another who feels life isn't complete without a Beetle built between August ‘52 and August ‘57 in his life and, like all self-respecting Oval heads, he's had a few of them - in fact one at least of every year, including tin tops, rag tops and a couple more oh-so-desirable Karmann Cabriolets. "I owned a '54 and a '57 convertible before, but both were not the right cars at the right time, so they got sold on again," he told us with a grin. "But after a few years of Slambulance driving [yep, the cool cat built that bad boy, too] and having no Oval to drive, I was really dying to get a Beetle back on the road.
So when I got the chance of making a deal on buying a '55 Convertible I jumped at it!"

Philips LowLight

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:58:35 +0100

Was ready for the bodyshop! Went there to help move the body (and hurt my back BIG TIME with the lifting! I'm still in pain now!! Damn:-)

Finally somethings that does not smells like fish in Jean Neptunus his truck:-)

Mr Jean himself!

At the bodyshop, ready for final finishing and color (I proposed pink since that would suit Philip, not sure if he will go for it?)!

New toy, a LM1 fuel/air ratio device

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:53:28 +0100

The best you can get (or so they claim). A digital data logger, the Innovate LM1 air/fuel metering device!

Thanks Harry!!

Now just need to understand how to work with it and I hope I can finetune my future 2110 IDA'ed engine!

LowLight

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:22:39 +0100

Did some first test drives this weekend... sofar all is OK! The engine is not 100% (running too rich I think) but shifting, brakes, ... seems to work fine!

Don't you just love that body line?? this is one AWESOME model!

LowLight

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:00:43 +0100

The removable apron all fitted.

bumper

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:21 +0100

parts again...

And after some work

front bumper

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:54:53 +0100

The front bumper took a lot more work! Beside the broken screws, all 4 bolt-holes for fixing it to the body were damaged!

This bumper support is supposed to go on the outside!

Finally a proper way of fixing the bumper again!!

Rear bumper

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:49:15 +0100

as you could expect, evey part of the bumper needed some work... damaged threads, broken screws, ...

All reassembled and ready for fitment!