Another great trip - to kangasniemi

Visiting kangasniemi is allways fun, this time we had one goal especially antd that was Picking up the 1960 vw of mika ritvos. But in the same trip, i could pressure wash my 2 blocks, one stock 1600 cc and the other one is a as41 block for a 94 mm bore, align bored and machined for the full flow... Pekka made a oil-line modification, that im not familiar with, but i trust for this super-pro wizard, the other block seems to need an align-bore, and thats what it gets, there will be one 1600cc and one 1915cc long block...later on. Econo-budget ones. ;-)

I had to take a photo of my two "piggies" the 911 and the 912... They are ...well waiting.... :-)

Heres the flywheel side of the modified 94 bore block, this could make a nice engine to one of the convert ghias that i have... Who knows, or for the bug?

The grey haired hippie, is mika ritvos, the owner of the bus behind us.... The other ugly wide-faced guy is me, as you can see im on the drugs, yes i really am, taking pills everyday for the sarchoidosis, that was almost fatal this time.

The cat came also to say hi, but too fast, couldnt get a decent picture ;-)

Washing the blocks, they dont shine, but they are pretty awesome now, next thing will be to wash the cylinders and pistons... And chase the correct bearings... I have cylinder-heads ofcourse, but they are autocraft 910's and angleflows, so they are a bit extreme for these...

I also took the turbo-ghias plenums to get more welds, for the injector-area and for some fuel rails too...

I also had to check my ghia vert, that really seems to like dust & grime, well a wash wouldnt do harm... :-) thanks to pekka for the nice day, coffee and everything. Getting back soon... ;-)

the ugly ducling is gone...

The ugly duckling is at m.särkeläs place, for a "small treatment"

Even the former owner said that the heater channels are rock solid, it didnt take much to see thaT they need replacement, we will try to fix the front light problem also. 

Im happy that mika is doing this, because he has lots of knowhow to these kind of customs, :-)

...even this car looks bad as hell, i really like it, its bad enough that you can do things with it!

well, to the tin-man. :-) lets see how it turns out...

That has to befrankensteins car....

easter at the cottage.

the spring looks to here! again...for the third time...

i started to operate the ugly ducling again, but looks like 

it needs tougher treatment.

jimi was helping me well... in his way.

i would need a sand blast for the ghia, or a soda blast...

but that too expensive for now. Damn if i only knew 

how to weld sheet metal, this would looks 

much better pretty soon. :-)

nice grills for the head lights...

This thing is loooooow....

and the stance is correct too...

jimi likes the roofless cars....

no, no fuchs wheels in this. :-)

snip snip ...for the wires.

and the ead lights will have the right angle...

wash and go? ...nope.

...story of this...to be continued...

daddys little helper. 

at the cottage - some clean up!

couple of porsche sixes - to kangasniemi

these are still for sale.

beautifull spring...

makes you feel better, so much that i had to take the chopper for a small spin, 

but the "white ground" was  still a bit slippery, 

i would like to make a video, but i still havent got my 

GoPro cam, :-(