lightened gas foot

well after the trip to sweden, the two toes were toasted, first had to amputate, tip of the toes, and next day i got fever, and the blood poisoning, after that i was a week in the hospital, and they made a new operation, and amputated two toes, completely ...but now i better, have to get energy to go and fix the vw´s ... and walk a bit. sorry the graphic picture, but that's the situation. the doctors gave me two bad choices, but the result is better than i thought. :-)

 

the drag buggy

 ok, i couldn't resist this one. a street buggy from sweden, what a bad ass buggy. 10.7 in the quarter mile.

So i went with JIMI (my son) to Wasa with a trailer, stayed a night in a hotel, then in the morning after a good breakfast, went to the ship without a car or trailer, heading to UMEÅ.There was Mats and Palle, waiting with the buggy in the harbour already. oh boy, a drag buggy but street legal. a bottle of NOS and everything that one might need. we hadn't much time, but after cruising with the buggy at the harbour area...we drove the racer to the ship and then to the trailer and back to helsinki... 

a pretty long trip, but worth every penny. and the buggy.... its just awesome... and fast.

problems with the wasser-boxer...

WOT is not always a good thing, especially in the traffic...and in the city traffic. I got a stuck throttle suddenly many times till i couldn't drive the bug. i got it to the garage, and started to locate the trouble... 

1. i was thinking that a old throttle can't be that tight after many years of use, so i dismantled some parts, and i was pretty sure that the problem is the TPS, but no. it was the 3D printed parts. way too tight fitment. 

but this should be easy to repair? lets see. i have to shave some material of the bracket, and then try to put back on their places again - yikes! will se how this turns out. but you learn by doing stuff... to be continued.

future is saved?

1. Jimi @ learning to assemble front brakes, 

so far so good, now we have to find parts for the rear...

2. we will try to assemble the rear axle...

Orange Is the New Black?

 it only took 800 km & 13 hours, to bring this to the new home. I visited the great brothers Plosila, Panu & Petri, great guys, and awesome things. like a Maserati boat, 38 coupe chevy, 356 Porsche, Packard rod project, legends cars, etc...  located in Kurikka. We were on a pretty tight schedule, but still managed to be relaxed, a happy feeling trip. 

wbx bug - here and therewbx,

This thing seems to like driving, and goes like a go-kart, runs easily 120 km/h. 

starts, stops and goes!have to put the audi on hold, maybe to the painter, and some bushings has to be changed. so its time to enjoy the bug.

 

let there be rock, or blues ...mostly...

 i had a space for a music player, but not that actual player, so i had to put a 30 euros bargain new sony mp3 player to the bug. First i thought that maybe it s a bad idea, because of some wiring hanging there, but with a tester, i got the picture, where there's some current. i even found a amp in the bug, and when i tracked the colors, and took out extra wiring. i now have a player in the bug. great thing. 

chrome won't take you far?

 well for me it just works. better than the silver rattle can one. suits fine with the wheels.

Fuchs wheel (copy) gets new paint

 Had to mask / paint the last wheel, so that i could get the winter tires under. and whats best, i might get a chrome bumper to the front, with the blinker of course. damn, this little bug is getting pretty. have to locate the center caps to the wheels also. and some chromed bolts. and a rear seat too...and what else?