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After the headliner, the windows, rubbers and scrapers were put in place. Trims are genuine aluminium and not the common aluminium look-a-like plastic ones. Hope they will last for years.

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Wiring is almost done, still waiting for some gauges to complete the dash.

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Finally the Tarox calipers are installed with spacers, pads and brake lines. I had a little issue with the spacer that was included in the kit. The pads didn't allowed them to fit well so some machining was required. Not a big deal but surprising in case of such a nice and expensive kit, that should be 100% plug and play. Can't find the pics of this, but will upload asap.

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Fills out nicely the 16" wheel but not too fancy from outside.
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Worked an other weekend on the car..

installed 4 of the 6 gauges

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as well as the Bug-Tech shifter

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Shift knob looks good on it. The same logo can be found in centre of my steering wheel.

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Having access to the battery area and back seats is not easy if you have bucket seats. These mounts are based on a Weichers frame (oiginally for Opel Corsa A) that required some fabrication to fit.

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Aluminium strut brace

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Fuel system (still missing some clamps)

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liking the build. keep up the good work.

Looking good. Love the shifter ;-)

Exhaust tucks up nice and high, a good move.

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Originally Posted by NO_H2O (Post 85803)

Love the shifter ;-)

Obviously :)

I managed to find a set of 25.5mm torsion bars from a 944 M030, I hope they will be fine with the "heavy" type4 in the back.
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Berg-style mid mount:
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Would be better to put in front, but the previous owner used a similar mount, thus he has already changed the bolts to longer ones, but this way :-/ So I need the rubber mounts to be releasable otherwise tranny can't be taken out.

However the Rancho unit is already machined to accept a bigger flywheel, the 228mm is still too big, so we had no choice...it is still not OK, when all the screws are tightened the engine won't turn around :rolleyes: next time I'll figure it out.
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Friends are welding and grinding
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Coffee break
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Result of the day
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Has any of you ever changed the pilot bearing in the type4 crankshaft to accept better the input shaft of the type1 tranny? It seems just too short for me..thanks

i just left mine in the crank. i drilled out my flywheel to accept a new pilot bearing.

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Originally Posted by cookvw (Post 85988)

i just left mine in the crank. i drilled out my flywheel to accept a new pilot bearing.

Do you have pictures of this?

heres my build thread on stf when i orginally put my wbx in my other super. if you look closely in the pics you can see the brass bushing in the 200mm flywheel im using now. same flywheel as a type4 converted into a type1 tranny.

http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewto...38817&start=30

Hi

Just buy a new pilot bearing from any air cooled VW, there all the same size and have the flywheel centre turned to accept it.

Steve

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Originally Posted by Steve C (Post 86003)

Hi

Just buy a new pilot bearing from any air cooled VW, there all the same size and have the flywheel centre turned to accept it.

Steve

Thanks for the info guys! Will do it ASAP.

An other how to question, this time about the front oil cooler. Tubes will go under the chassis, but still not sure about the front area. I want to put them as high as possible without interfering with the suspension parts. Any ideas are welcome (picture worth more than thousand words). Thanks

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Originally Posted by Bogara_ZO (Post 84935)

They are in acceptable condition, so will give a try as is and see if I like them with all black carpets around or not. Retrimming is always an option.
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I wasn't happy enough, so it was time to make decision about the interior. All black would be the easiest but not for a summer car. I was looking for something unusual but period correct. Finally I voted on the tartan/plaid interior, like Porsche did in the 70's. The more I see it the more I like it.

Original Porsche fabric is $$$ and none of them is for my taste, but tons of other colors are available. Finally I chose the original "Royal tartan", this package arrived from the UK a few days ago. Can't wait to see it.

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A bit off topic, but you might be interested in. A local oldtimer show with very different cars. Will upload my pics as will.

Official galleries:

http://galeria.totalcar.hu/magazin/2...urrpic=4363726

http://galeria.totalcar.hu/kozelet/2...urrpic=4364376

An other weekend passed without working on the car, but we had great fun on a local trackday. I was co-driver in the Z4 and we were chasing friend's 1303 :cool: Both cars are daily drivers, the bug performed very well!

Outside:
http://galeria.totalcar.hu/kozelet/2...f5229c41_j.jpg

Inside:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKFh7qNP3U

A few more pics:
http://galeria.totalcar.hu/kozelet/2...zoltan_foto/76

Got the seats back, I really like how they turned out:

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Note the white connectors...the first seats are heated now, this will be the only heating in the car. A lot lighter than other oprions :D

I figured out the pilot bearing and the bell house issue as well, it was time to put the enigne back to it's place

Engine dressed up
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Exhaust fits well
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The first start in the car
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Fitted new sealing and the sensor for oil temp
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Started to build the oil cooling system. Braid hoses to resist the heat in the engine bay
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The cup brace is very useful
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Fuel and oil hoses are almost ready
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Fitted

7x16 - 195/45
8x16 - 215/45

I think i will go with 205/45 on the back

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Didn't like it on the roll, but it looks very Golf GTI on the seats. Going to look really smart when done

Very nice! Seats and wheels came out great :)

Wheels came out awesome!

Hi

The wheels look great. What is your car colour called? With those seats you should get a Scottish ringtone LOL They look really good and go with the car colour.

Steve

Thank you guys for the comments!

Sorry for the crappy phone pictures, I'll make better ones next time.

The seats looks more vivid in real, and I feel this tartan theme period correct as not just the GTI but also Porsche used plaid fabric in the '70s (bigger checks would be even better)

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Steve, you were just kidding but not my girlfriend :eek: :D

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Btw, colour is Kasan Red (L30B), an original one for '71-'72 or '72-'73. It will be fully polished when fenders are on.

car has really turned out steller so far. i love the plaid on the seats. so much that i now need to recover my seats...lol. keep up the awesome work man.

I gave up with plastic fenders and started to make my owns from metal. They weight a lot more than fiberglass, but at least can be custom widened.

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With current wheels it needs +2 cm in front, +5 in rear. Thanks for Ricola for the useful infos on his website, it helped a lot.

To make it as strong as possible the extra piece was hammered to a "hat shape" so it attaches under the fender's edge on both side. The outer side of the rear fender had to be shorten to keep the original shape and to line up with the running board.

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Btw the +5 cm should be over on the limit where stock running boards can be used, at least mine looked awful (no pictures). The front section of the fender was sliced up again and got a "V" shape so the bottom edge is near to stock now and it looks ok to me.

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After the second test fit it was good enough to go ahead, time to extend the bumper brackets (30mm) to clear the fenders.

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This is it for now, I hope I get them back from the painter in a few days/weeks.

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I will have to relocate the rear lights once the fenders are ready