Wheels of change....

how lame is that for a subject? hehehe, well this time its a nice to check the wheels, what suits and whats a  bit out of style. what do you think? theres one wheel set to try after this. but they are under my Porsche 911 RSR wannabe.

the problem is that this Dodge has small bolt pattern at the rear and 

big in front. + BMW adapters/spacers

for the rear theres, slot mags with 275-15, AR torque trust with 275-17 wheels, 

and grey torque thrust with 275 but with chevy pattern.

and for the front 235 wide ones.... that might be the thing.

except it needs lowering down... but not now. 

Ghia repair, the black one

Sunshine, snow, old ghias & warm weather is a beautifull combination...I started the black ghia just to get some kicks, and it worked fine. I ran it 5-10 minutes and after that, i decided to take the garretts compressor side apart, because theres some leak of it. I heard that theres a turbocharger repair shop near by... 

Trip to kangasniemi motorzentrum

My friend mika got his just painted type2 back from the painters shop, and the plan wss to get it to kangasniemi for a clutch job. The weather was awful, heavy rain, +4 degrees celcius, but we decided to try it anyways. 

I took my 911 rsr wannabe replica project to kangasniemi by trailer, even the sidewindows were missing... 

Theres sime vital organs missing to drive it to kangasniemi, like the engine, transmission. Headlights, seats, ... Well many things...

When we came back, there was a pretty thick fog i would guess that it lasted 200 kilometeterS... :-)

But the trip was as good as allways! 

Black ghia mods...

Ok, time to get forward... The smaller (or too small) kawell turbokit is going to rest somewhere else...

We will put a bigger and better setup asap, and sell some stuff...

Ok, i made a small mock up so that we know what will be modified and how. 

The garrett turbo is in kangasniemi so i cant check that for the moment, but maybe in the next weekend i will be next to my ghia!!!! this turbo is from a dragster engine... might be a bit too big.
but it would be fun to test if it "runs" at all with a 84x94 "starter-motor" 

Ugly duckling - karmann ghia

The cosmetic surgery for the ghia started at m. Sarkelas garage at mantsala city, and as we thought the ghia needs a bit of tin work ;-) but its at the good hands of welding wizard mika. This ghia was bought from texas, couple of years ago, and i have to admit that they know the art of "bondoing" :-) the body has a lot of bondo, aluminium tape, screws, awfull tin repairs, and rust... But theres also positive stuff, under the bondo layers, anyways, the layout for the "bond-shell"

Is something that only frankenstein would love, as a car... Lets see how it turns out.

:-) great ideas are coming to my mind... But check out this blog for more...

Porsche rsr clone - needs a few things :-)

I took the porsche body out of the garage, so that i could make more space, and hopefully one day a cleaner space... the rsr by the way needs an engine, transmission, bucket seats, door handles, those small grilles in front, etc... and front and rear valances, so if you got some of them let me know...

Theres too much shit in here. AND i started to fix the panelvan also. Got to fix it to get it inspected... But anyways, the weather is nice and im free to do this so lets get some progress...

1972 porsche RSR wannabe. with the "big shoes".

Ok, first i am going to try spacers / adapters ... they are coming from http://www.performancewheeladapters.com and the model is this

"5x130 to 5x120 Wheel Adapter 1.25 inch" ...lets how how it turns out.