Mikey's Ghia Thread...

[owdlvr]

The car, and work, is looking good. Build things to the best of your ability now, and go back and upgrade down the road as skills improve.

I've laid over 190 inches of welds on my new project, but still think my welding is embarrassing. It's improved 10-fold from my '69, but doesn't meet the robot-like abilities of some here. Ah well, I figure, there will always be another shell

Keep it up, it will all be worth it when you get to fire it up and take it for a drive.

-Dave

[Mikey]

Thanks guys.

Dave, I weld for a living and I still find ways to improve everyday.

I found my brake switches tonight. That's all I needed to bleed the brakes.

[brujo65]

nice work Mike, I finally finished my.

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by brujo65

nice work Mike, I finally finished my.

Nice, it looks really good.

I am getting closer and closer to trying to wire the engine and car. How easy or hard was it to wire and hook up the vacume lines?

Thanks,

[Mikey]

The wife and I have been working on our Ghia.

We mounted both driver's and passenger seats last weekend and front hood.

The passenger side is a little closer to the dash because lack of forsight in the placement of the waterline bolts under the car. It actually helps because the passenger doesn't need to sit as far back. Also if I was any taller at all, I think I would need differant seats. They are as far back as possible. And at 6ft tall, I'm almost out of leg room. My head comes close to the roof.

This weekend...
Welded 6an fittings to the bottom of the tank, both send and return. I still need to seal the inside and paint the outside.

Made a bolt on spare tire mount in the trunk.

Spare tire bolted in, the plastic peice holding the spare tire down is out of my new beelte.

Both hoods w/pulls and both doors. Also the rear apron is bolted in too.



I removed the seats so I can park the car outside. The rear is still high since there is no engine.

I'm ready to drive this beast!

[brujo65]

Originally Posted by Mikey

Nice, it looks really good.

I am getting closer and closer to trying to wire the engine and car. How easy or hard was it to wire and hook up the vacume lines?

Thanks,

I am using stinger ecu and no to many vac lines. let me know if I can help you out

[surfbeetle]

I'm using a LINK ecu which I'm putting by the battery under the rear seat. I ran the wiring to the passenger compartment from the engine by fishing it up through the upper right side of the engine compartment. It comes in behind the right rear interior panel next to the back seat.

[Mikey]

Well Jason, I havn't decided what to do about the waterlines.

This weekend and last, I installed the headlights, turn signals, front bumper, mirrors, wiper motor, tail lights... when I installed the mirrors, I wanted a frim mount instead of having only the two bolts holding on the sheet metal. So I cut a peice of aluminum and drilled two holes in it to act like a big washer. I forgot to take a picture.

I cleaned and put the rubber on the front and rear windows. I also set them on the car for a picture. The front glass is new but the rear is the original.



I worked on cleaning the windows while the fiberglass filler was curing. I needed to shorten the rear bumper on the sides where I widdened the rear fenders.

Getting closer.

Final mount before paint.



Ghia bumpers also mount on the ends of the blade, I had to replace 1 missing mount in the rear bumper and both missing mounts in the front. They turned out really good. I mounted the ends of both bumpers.

My help (wife) was sick this weekend. So I had to do everything myself.