Ghias and strokers...

They will meet one day... ;-)

Pauter small block - getting smaller

Thanks to tomi seppälä and jyrki laune, we got this block apart, no surprises in here, just clean parts with oil. Pauter block, pauter crank, pauter rods... The cam is a mysterious one, no codes what so ever, but i bought tomis pauter turbocam... A roller cam. Next we have to have a good shover...

El cheapo ghia

Last time at the cottage, i wanted to stuff the engine to the ghia, its a "trash bin 12-hundred" so not much of expectations here, but im just doing these things to amuse myself... I dont know anything of this engine, but it turns, so thats something atleast. I had a new pressure bearing so i sacrifised that to this project, and it was a good decision, the used one was toasted. What i have to do also is to raise the rear because the rear suspension is useless, too low to drive, and it will stuck in places... I would like to put winter tyres and try this sled in the icy roads.... But anyways its fun to do things. To be continued...

Fast trip to kangasniemi

Had to bring some parts for the ghia & and m. Ritvos picked up his ragtop oval.
Enjoy the picks

KG vert - from the cottage to the city

ok, the front end is swapped finally to a 2" narrowed, adjustable front axle, from the paruzzi boys, 

and have to say that it goes well, i swapped to the old original shocks to get more adjustability, 

ok, the front is now higher, but is can get it lower pretty easy, but with the empi shocks it might be too low for the speed bumps... have to see it first...i adjusted also the wheel alignement, and that went pretty good also, i can still drive with only two fingers in the steering wheel,  :-)

but firts things in monday is to get the a time in 4 wheel -alignment so that it will go like in the rails.

...then ill go to meet mika särkelä, to show him the body, and could he take care of the repairs? lets see... have to show and ask first... the ghia is a awesome ride, and it needs some tweaking, but its wotrth the hassle. check out the "gang member sticker" also... one proud "slug" 

vw cherry red paint - huh.

its not that easy to locate an old vw paint code that will work today... but i´m getting closer.
thanks to the great people from www.volkkaripalsta.com, now i have a contact that might help.
i would like to have the car painted in the same colour, that it espcaped the karmann company.
plus some awesome wheels from paruzzi, + some tyres from camskills.uk + well loads of things...etc... lets see... you know.