small improvements... with this.

Today i worked with the blinkers, 

but theres still some bugs somewhere.

but the engine starts right up, 

maybe i get also the blinkers work tomorrow?

In & out & in & out

This little ghia lost it transplant for a fellow vw-pervert, but got its "heart" back, and now its back in its place. with some black paint. got to put everything back and make it run. there goes the spare time.

i think it will get a stock carb this time. 

small improvements....

that baby blue ghia got couple of wires, and now we have those front lights working so well,  (maybe the HID lights will have to wait for a while...) and as you can see the rear lights have some problems. i would guess that the problems are the grounding... the blinkers are not working for the moment. the wiring of the relay is fixed up someway. and at the rear the grounding is making some bugs. but seems like the blue ghia will be drivable in no time...heheheh. The Stroker engine... well I'm tinkering with the chinese tin, and the fitment aint so good at all. + theres no attachment to the coil & no holes to the throttle cable at all... BEWARE! I´ve been scratching my head, Should i mount the 48 IDAS or The Fuel Injection.... The 48 Isdas would cost 0 euros.but the eco and staff would be around 2000 e... and that old geezer with a cigar is my friend Mikko, great guy!

what did i do today?

well there was a great progress with this blue ghia, 

mostly with the wiring and electrics,i got help from T. Parjanen, 

it was a great day, sun was shining and the cottage looked beautiful, 

have to go more often, to work this car and just to enjoy the spring weather. 

lots of things to do, but we are getting there, i believe. ;-)

 

Finding some lost parts for my 1915 project

The black ghia is in autotune.fi, for the new ecu and other turbo upgrades, so i can allways, seek for the lost parts for this 1915cc project, its going to be a "el cheapo" version, mainly putting stock parts and some tune up parts together, nothing fancy. Its a block that i had in my closet, a full flowed, line bored, with some oil mods, now with a stock 69 crank, stock rods, a engle w110 copy cam, bigger oil pump, 94 p/c kit, stock heads but with harder springs, double 40 dell's, 009 and a header...i think it will make that blue ghia vert in a great cruiser... Lets see... The picks are for memorising what i have to find... Oilpump, flywheel, plugs, cylinder spigots, bits&bobs ;-) and unported manifolds for the carbs too... 

Getting in the gear, with the cool ghia

Driving could be much easier with working gears, at least one reverse gear. 

So after many times to try to adjust the old school shifter, i gave up and started to dig up the real problem, i found out that the shift rod had any bushing left, and the joint to the hockey stick was waiting for retirement, ok, i took out the shift rod and the joint, 

After cleaning & oiling the shift rod, i started to put it back, but it wasnt a one hour job, ok, had to buy a magnetic pick up tool also, ... Ok, i got the parts back on, but had to modifie the joint area a bit.

But this thing really helped and now the gears are like they should be, so if you got problems to engage gears, check these areas first.  Now it feels like i could go racing with it. 

Now theres only 99 jobs to do ;-)

Strokers & stuff

Well, for the stroker, i just got a set of lash caps, but still i have to locate some studs for the rockers, the pauter rockers stud wont fit with the berg rockers...

And also ... Have to find a oil cooler part.

And if you have a set of super flo valve covers, to sell, give me a message!

I got the -1600cc engine to the ghia cab, but the clutch release spring snapped in 3 pieces in the first try... So more things to fix. 

I changed also the exhaust/heater part to the right side of the engine, and i will put all the ducting to work so that theres a working heater in the ghia. Heh. Useless?

No way, sometimes the summer nights are chilly, and if you drive without any top, you will need one.

The red bug will be meeting its new owner hopefully at friday. 

The black ghia needs also some attention :-)

To be continued...

New heart to the ghia, comes ...

...from the red bug, ... And the reason is that theres a need for a bug without an engine. It goes to seinäjoki region... So i will put it in the ghia tomorrow, and hopefully, it takes the ghia closer to the "running mode"... :-) this city needs a patina vert ghia to the streets... 

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...