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Old February 3rd 2008, 18:12
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I have finally finished my car.

Ok, I lied. I'm still waiting on the door panels, but besides that, it's finished, shook down, road tested, and licensed. Here's some recent pictures after I just washed it (with filtered pond water because of the drought, no kidding ) and glazed it.
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Old February 3rd 2008, 18:40
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She sure is purdy!!! How about some YouTube!

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Old February 3rd 2008, 18:46
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Hmmmm Very Nice love the colour too.

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Old February 3rd 2008, 19:24
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She sure is purdy!!! How about some YouTube!

Jason
Sorry Jason, I don't have a camcorder. This car's been eatin' all my audio-visual duckets.

Suffice to say, I'm impressed with the power and especially the torque which starts to get beefy at 2200 rpm, and doesn't go away until somewhere after 5k.

The chassis feels much stiffer than the '71, takes turns much faster, and with far less body roll as well.
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Old February 4th 2008, 10:36
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Old February 4th 2008, 14:41
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very nice yeti i have several pics of your 71. matter of fact it , noh2o's smackblack , and zens quasi were all what inspired me to do Laz as a germanlooker.so it goes without saying im sure it looks muck better in person and i look forward to seeing it soon.
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Old February 4th 2008, 15:14
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looks real good . are they standard or wide arches?
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Old February 4th 2008, 19:03
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looks real good . are they standard or wide arches?
Thanks! They're 2" wider per side in front, and 3" per side in back.



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very nice yeti i have several pics of your 71. matter of fact it , noh2o's smackblack , and zens quasi were all what inspired me to do Laz as a germanlooker.so it goes without saying im sure it looks muck better in person and i look forward to seeing it soon.
Thanks Laz. To me, this car just looks plain sick in person compared to Sue's '71 because it's wider at both ends, and has all the stainless steel exhaust pornography hanging out from underneath. The Kerscher 911 dash and the 944 seats kind of give it an exotic touch.

I drove it to work today, and during my lunch hour I went for a 20 mile highway drive to see where the temps would end up again. I drove pretty hard for 15 miles or so to get a good heat load, and drove REAL hard leaving one stoplight. The right head barely made it to 300, and the left one was about 280 (inverse of what I expected, but maybe because of the heat shield under the left bank covering my oil plumbing), and the oil temp was exactly halfway up the gauge. I probed the dipstick tube with a thermometer for 15 min immediately after shutdown and observed 176 degrees, and dropping, and it was about 65 degrees ambient temp today.
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Old February 4th 2008, 19:56
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Sweet looking ride. Glad to hear it is doing well.
Bring it down to Dyno Day in march and join in the Type 4 line up.
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The car looks great, I can't wait to see it.
Nice job!!!
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Old February 5th 2008, 00:26
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Awesome man! perfect ride height, and very clean.
Funny color , I was so close to painting my 1303 in a dark metalic blue like yours, but i decided that staying with the original L41 black was the way to go.

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Another great german style car!
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Old February 5th 2008, 16:57
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Great car!

How did you make the rear bumper fit so well with widened fenders?
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Old February 5th 2008, 22:27
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Great car!

How did you make the rear bumper fit so well with widened fenders?
I just trimmed the bottoms of the ends before I painted it, and made sure I installed it as far back as it would go. I didn't end up with much room between the ends and the fenders though. There may be 2" clearance from the fenders at both ends.
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Nice one! Love the look of it.
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