Jeans Beetle Circuit Racer

[cookvw]

that is totally a big let down. im a painter and i just checked my paint system and yep...no code. sucks to have the wrong color. like you said tho, a quick scuff of the new paint and she will be all ready for another respray in the "right" color. my green bug is viper green, and when i bought the car, it was also the wrong color. now its the correct color for my car. best of luck man!

[dub_crazee]

That really sucks! My colour wasnt on the paint shops system but they phoned up ICI directly who faxed through the formula... just a thought?

[Moog]

We have the formula now in MIPA paint, so he is cracking on with it and it shouldn't take to long to blow it over again, but going to be a few weeks before I get it back. So it's 8pm on a Saturday night, Mrs Moog is swotting up for a job interview & doesn't want to be disturbed, & so I have the evening in the garage... With no car... Time to work on those brakes maybe?

[Moog]

So with a little bit of work the 996 calipers fit BoxsterS rear discs on Steel 944 rear arms inside the 6x15" Teledial





The mounts I made ages ago for standard 944 rear discs have been spaced & flipped - I may make new adapters or just run with these spaced. This is with a 10mm wheels spacer - hopefully that will clear the bodywork. I'll wait until I have tried it all in the chassis/shell before giving it all a good clean and repaint. I need to do something to centre the BoxsterS disc properly as the centre of the Boxster disc is larger than the 944 disc, so at the moment it just locates on the wheel studs so can move a couple of mm each time I have it apart. I think a centring ring between the two should do it and then drill/tap the hub to use the retaining screw hole in the disc

[Moog]

It's been a few weeks so time for an update, though there is not a great deal to show at present. I've not seen it, but have been told the shell is now painted again in the right colour. Apparently it was a real pain to flat it back again - with it being so fresh it just clogged the Wet&Dry - but he's finally got there with it. Hopefully I will have it back in the next week or so.

Things were also delayed as he had a photoshoot for Volksworld magazine on his "Jurgens Autovilla" so that was his main focus for a week or so.


Anyway, back to mine - I have at least now got the gearbox sorted - Welded 1.04 4th gear, 4.375 R&P, and T2-size output flanges.


I also found time to lay a new garage floor - last seen going round and round under Dave Forders car at the Volksworld show

[djambrosia]

Might get Sam to repaint mine, when he has some time

[Moog]

So, still not got the repainted shell back yet, partly due to work commitments, but in the meantime the boss kept me busy with something with slightly less power:



Only 4800miles from new. All the pushrod seals had deteriorated with age, so I had the heads off and gave it a top-end refresh - all lovely and clean inside, with the VW logo still visible on the piston crowns. It was a delight to work on.

Put it back in its rightful home on Monday evening - a '56 Single-Cab - and it ran beautifully. Having managed to then get it registered Tuesday, and the plates sorted on Thursday, yesterday I took it to the Apex Festival at Lydden Hill. Didn't miss a beat all the way there - with an average of less than 85miles a year over the last 57 years, but not turned a wheel in decades, we thought of just having a few local trips in it first, but in the end we thought what better thing to do than a 200 mile round trip to test it? We even overtook a Bay-Window on the way!



While at the circuit I thought it would rude not to put it around the track - no seat belts, very slippery seat, 30hp, Crash-gearbox... Brilliant fun! Managed to hit 50mph on the main straight before dropping into 3rd and braking to 40mph for the left-hander where the back stepped out Myself and my mate sliding around on the passenger seat were in absolute hysterics - he reckons it was almost as much fun as his 911! I wonder if the boss will let me build an Okrasa engine for it?