Forssa Pick-nick 2016

We had a great day with my son Jimi, because we went to Forssa Pick-nick! awesome cars, great weather & loads of nice people. My panelvan worked fine, and we didn't have any problems, and after that we drove to somero, to eat ice cream and have a good time. my brother had his GHIA and we also swapped cars so that we can experience different kind of v-dubs.

a great vw-scene day!

i went to get the panel van inspected today, but i didn't go as planned, and the reason was that the mechanic ( me, myself & i) made a mistake, ....first i had two spacers in the rear brake in wrong places, so i had to fix those at Kottens garage, ok it didn't take that long at all, but the reason for NOT to get the van inspeccted properly was that i never actually adjusted the parking brakes at all, so pulling the lever didn't make much of braking. that was one thing.... the second thing was that the rear wheel was oily, so the inspector thought it will slip oil, even the rear brakes were working like they should. ok i only have to clean the wheels inside and adjust the parking brakes... that will do the trick.

after this i went to see Tomi at sepankatu garage, and bring out some parts for my stroker...
there was a problem with the berg rockers, super flows and big springs....they make the pushrods to touch the puush rod tubes, so the idea was to take the heads off and weld and remake  things .... ;-) but then the better idea was to try again the Pauter rockers, and after so tweaks, we have now pauter rockers working with my parts... wow. one side is pretty much looking great.

I got some spare adjusters from Jyrki Laune to the pauter rockers, (a very big THANKS to jyrki to help in this) and after this we got the oil sump in order too, except, theres one stud missing, but ill figure out something for that...

i got new intake manifolds from AIRCOOLED.FI, (thanks for mikko) and they will have 48mm butterfly´s in no time. and maybe some other parts like fan etc... ;-)

i also got the opportunity to see Make´s turbo bugs engine... and check out some things that i could copy to my black ghia´s engine...anyways even i didn't have the bus inspected ... it was a helluva day.
got to get the panel inspected and the stroker...well you will guess where. :-)

Will see what happens...

wednesday is full of plans, like getting the ghia cabriolet to sipoo,

for some wiring & maybe other small stuff as well...

there might be for a change some type 3 slamming.

Picks comes later, and if things goes well my panel van

will get its steering sharp as it was from the factory.

 But more of that later on. In mean while

check out the ghias short clip...

skunk-werks. with love

this is something that i want to do, a karmann ghia road racer, with flat grey/brownish paint, pop-up flares, 17 inch wheels, slammed, and with some attitude. even some mercedes slr / bmw m3 air ducts behind the front wheel arches would be great. heh heh, this body is bad enough to have some experiment. n´est pas? 

have to get the brake parts from the machine shop, the arp-studs to the drums and disks, the suspension to some useful height, and then then some more tweaking, the body is next in the line, to have some new steel parts, and why not get a safety cage, welded to tie all things together. yeah! i get a good wibes from this. let me hear some comments...

 

veljekset hämärä - from scratch to reality

the master plan

the jacket

the evolution...

the result.

the famous one. ;-)