Helsinki pop-up restaurant day

How many times you have a vw panelvan in your restaurant? Well my sweet neighbours wanted to have a pop-up restaurant at fredrikinkatu 35, so i gave them the space needed. It looks great, except its raining!

The frankenvert - or ugly duckling...

This ghia is from texas, and it looks like rust never sleeps at texas, ;-) but the ugly ducling is getting a lot of new sheetmetal, thanks to m. Särkelä at mäntsälä motor city, maybe this thing will see some cruisenights & vw happenings in finland... If not i will ... Hmmmm. Create a new plan for this...

But anyways, the biggest problem could be the front headlight area... 

X-mas coming... And coming ;-)

This time came some smaller parts, superflow-ida manifolds, oilpump cover with pressure valve and linkage, thanks for aircooled.fi! Looks great! Now i only need some 48 carbs. Whats next in line? The bearings etc from keiteleen kone. Then i would guess that its time for some serious assembly... Yikes!

X-mas coming early?

I got a new block, ready for a stroker axle, ready for 94mm p/c kit, and ready for full flow, yeeeha! Thanks for the paruzzi.fi ... This is inspiring, i started instantly to check the crank etc.... And what misses for the moment.... To be contiuned

And thanks to paruzzi for the great magazines!

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...

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...

Ghia update - Passenger side ready!

After couple of hours of wrenching, i got the parts back and now we have a working rear suspension, ok i might change the rear shock absorbers to stiffer ones, the rear feels a bit "soft" i'll check what i have. Also the engine is making me a bit worried, should i swap it to a 1600 "trasher" engine, will see bout that, i really would like to put a stroker in it, but i dont have any to put there for the moment, the strokers are mostly parts... :-/

But its better now! A good day!

Its not very high, but its high enough!

Say no to lowering?

... Not ecxactly, i just have to raisen up the rear of the ghia, 

because with the engine i cant get it out of the garage, so i have to 

make it more driveable... The passenger side brakes are now pretty much ok, 

so i have to turn the car around. ;-)