look what the "postman pat" dropped

The long drooled 101.6 cylinders are in da house. aa-perf. but still, this will take my 86x101.6 project forward...the blind cb bubble top block, rods, engle-cam, 86 new crank are waiting for this... yeeha!
these came from the home of eu´s first 7 second vw door slammer

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!

black ghia spy shots

the turbo-ghia is getting better and better, but pretty much

full in the engine bay, and I'm getting happier. more picks later.

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. :-)

looking good...

well it just looks great! especially in fredrikinkatu. next stop in krem-a-que, and helsinki cruising night. Also i feel a urge to start to build a stroker...for the parts in the shelf.

endless snow... :-(

everything is frozen, BUT at least, the harley started right up, 

ok, i had to use the some shovel, but anyways, it really started right up.

i tried to ride it a bit, but that 200 mm wide rear tyre did n´t get any grip.

maybe i´ll swap to motocross tires, any ideas? 

is there any wide 18" and 21" cross tires?

 

jimi likes snow a lot, but theres too much of it, the stiga sled, drowns :-)

hmmm...yes, its not the best garage for these...

before...

after...

before...

after...

ghia update - the INNO things. :-)

(inside joke) but the ex-sony-exploid ghia is pretty much coming together...

its currently in the interior shop, but in good hands. 

i´ll put some picks of the metamorphosis... in here...

the show years... with some serious equipment...

but that was in the wrong end... this is my first "better" ghia.

in the wasa-years it even went to the strip...

my vision was to make the body black, 

with red and white interior... with new 1 original type wiring 

(compared to the x3 wiring that was found in the car) 

stereo parts off, and a more street racer attitude.

... show and go. but needs to be a driver.

... so take the ghia and take off allmost everything

it looked partially nice, when it was just washed, but 

it really wasnt... :-) trust me.

heavy loudspeakers, heavy boxes...

aaaahhh... theres some nice wiring.

and some foam, everywhere... no wonder the 

door locks didnt work so well....

its been a while... jimi was pretty small boy...

...and sometimes even sleeped pretty well...

NO "GUTS" - NO GLORY

better!

even better!

one idea... not bad... suits you sir.

off to ohkola ranch. for some body repairs...

and for some paint...

... think after, why we just didnt re-wire it again, etc...

repair the bad parts and ....

ok, not the option in this case.

the king of ohkola - mika särkelä :-)

mika is pretty good with the sheet metal...

the colour seems to be changing...

darth wader is in the house!

flat black - is allways IN

but so is this too...

the inspector sez YES!

i say the same!

at sepänkatu...

kawell turbo came from waasa...

maybe if i could use the 912 engine instead?

looks like a car...

this will be the looks... mr sippo is giving a hand.

yeas... looks good!

and topped with some weld wheels...

this would be a good looking car.

and from the beginning, i´ve had the idea 

that it has to have a seat for jimi.

kawell, with 2332 cc...

from this point the car was trailered to Kangasniemi, to pekka laitinen,

and now its changing from a "lay-out" to reality...and a street car, i hope...

 its getting there, stay tuned...  :-) 

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