Rollin' rollin' rollin'

Well, I lie if I said it was no fun... to roll the car around the garage with no engine. With almost the correct wheel mounted, and suspension and steering all working. Like a child with his pedal-car =) The rear torsion springs has not been loaded for over 20 years, so it sits relatively high in the rear yet. But with an engine mounted and some kilometers down the road it should sit quite nice. The car was put on stands again after the garage boys were finnished playing with it, and fenders stripped off gain. Now it's time for painting the last details and clean everything up nicely. Another step in the ladder cleared =)

Brake power

Of course it's tempting to think in the direction of disc brakes to get the car closer to modern technology. But that would probably spoil the total image of the car right now. So to keep drum brakes, I went for 65 T1 front brakes, the widest type for linkpin set up. In the rear I have used T3 5 stud brakes. Every piece except the drums and shields have been replaced with new parts.

The drums was machined to new finnish, and to fit the T1 axle. The latest brakeparts arrived from CIP1 yesterday, and was fitted last night. Still a little curious to how the handbrake will work on the T3 set up.

Rollin'

There has not been to much update on this blog lately. I've mostly been working on details for the car, that will be revealed when the car is driving. Building up for a surprise moment? In a way it's fun to show up in the spring with a car no one has seen before. My biggest consern these days is the time aviable to finish the car. I'm about to reach a critical stage in building my family a new house, and that sucks up a lot of time. But the main goal, given the limited time for VW these days, the car will be rooling at the end of april. The chassie is almost complete, and fitting brake parts and bleeding brakes should make it ready. The bodywork is mainly done, and a finishing coat of color is left to do. The engine will be fitted in early may, and hopefully with some "tuning" of the whole car, it will roll it's maiden voyage to Sweden in early june. I promise to release some more footage as we reach may, and the car is really coming together... The photo show what's going on these days =)