Blizzard's rolling rebuild of a 1303 1975

[Blizzard]

The feshly painted fenders and rear bumper on the car. That's a 255/40 x17 tire you're looking at.



The car stood still all winter so the rest of the car is very dirty.



New front bumper on the car.



Complete side view of the new look.



The Black 4 pot Brembo's look great behind those Cup 2's

[Blizzard]

After some cleaning and detailing it was time for the first meeting this spring. This was last weekend so now I'm up to date with this rolling rebuild.





After a few moths of painting and working on the chassis it was nice to make a trip in nice sunny spring weather with some friends to a meet. The car handles great and I had a smile on my face the whole time during this first (test)drive.

[wrenchnride247]

Wow that's alot of ground to cover in such a short thread

It looks good so far. What kind of plans do you have for the motor?

[Blizzard]

O, Yes the engine. Mmmm. The engine that came with the car was put together by a person who did not know how to build one. So that one is junk now.



The engine that is in the car at the moment is a standard 1600 and belongs in my 1303 convertible. I had to put that engine in 2 days before the biggest aircooled event in The Netherlands. Becouse the original engine went like KrKrKrkrkrkrgggrrrgr the day before. and than it died. When I disambled the engine I saw a couple of things that were not ok. All kind of sealing materials in the oilgalley's, a 1200 coolingfan in a 1600 coolingtunnel. A piece of silicone sealer was blocking the hole for the middle crankshaft bearing. So the connectingrod bearing ended up like you see above. It melted. The rest of the engine was fine. The heads are like new. I think they were new when the person build this engine so I'll use those on a future project. But I won't use this crank, case and rods anymore.

I build a 1641 for my 1200 beetle. That car is also a project car. I put some powdercoated coolingtins on the engine and will drive this engine in this car for this summer.



The engine I'm working on for this car is a 2.0 Type 4.

[Humble]

Lots of progress on the car, I think you were holding out on us Looks great so far now it's time for a big motor (and probably a transmission).

[volkdent]

Great buildup pics, thanks! Sweet looking ride.

Jason

[Blizzard]

I almost forgot I had a thread on GL.net So here are some updates. Nothing shocking but still updates.

1 mei Hannover Germany. This is one off the largest Aircooled only swapmeets in Europe.



The thread title sais it already, it's a roling rebuild. At the anual check they found a few rusted eareas that had to be repleaced. Both the heat channels had to be replaced and the rear floor was also rusted under the battery.















This kind off job should be done with a complete body off resto. But it can be done with the body on the chassis. Instead of the regular rubber or closed cell foam I used weldseam sealer between the new heaterchannel and the new floorplates.

This car is also a test car for different engines we build.



Now the stock 1600 motor out of my 1303 convertible was out I sprayed the engine compartment black and I upgraded the rear trans mount.



The next motor was a 1641 cc. with a dual Solex 34 PCI setup from Riegert.



The stainless firewall was a temporarely solution to hide the green engine compartment. All my friends said it was even more ugly than the green paint.

What I wanted to show in this post is something that has never happend to me before an d I hope will never happen again. When I went to a specialist to fine tune the Riegert carb setup something happend when he was almost done. Suddenly the left carburator was'nt responding to turning the mixture screw. He send me home and told me to see what's wrong. So I drove home (a few miles) and started to remove the intake manifolts and carburators. When I looked inside the carburator I noticed that there was a jet missing.



Threre is only one way a loose jet can go. I expected bent valves and, and. To my suprice the jet was still in the intake port of the cilinder head. It was'nt even damaged.



The problem with this jet in the venturi of the 34 PCI Solex is that if you tighten it to hard the mixturetube brakes off wich is the end of the carburator. I used a little bit of Loc-Tite to solve this problem. My advise, use a little bit of Loc-tite on every nut /bolt and jet that can fall into youre heads.

I know it wo'nt happen to me again.

[Blizzard]

And a few pics off the Bugshow at Spa.











and at the same spot last year.



Find all the changes I've done. There's no prize if you can spot them all.

[beetle1303]

I couldn't resist the temptation, so...
hmmm, lets see...
from the front of the car towards the rear.
1 chrome bumpers
2 moved license plate
3 wheels
4 driver seat
5 chrome door frame
6 rear pop out windows
7 different exhaust (and motor??)
8 rear bumper

i believe i got them all
oh and the chrome bumpers have the rubber trim on them...

cmon what do i win???

[Blizzard]

Haha, You forgot the new brakes and there was no chrome door frame that is the sun reflection. But you get an A for effort. And the prize is.....
A place on the passenger seat next year at the Bugshow on the track. Spa in Belgium is al ong way from Greece but it's a great meeting for GL fans.

[Wally]

Its good to see your pics again Erik!
for more then one reason

How are your plans for a roll cage working out at the moment? I saw some scetches earlier from you that were VERY cool and well thought-out
I think our friends over here would like them too!