Re-slammed karmann ghia

'Ok, my brake swap with adapters didnt go as planned, mainly because the bearing differences, so i decided to go with the dropped spindles that i bought many years ago... First things went pretty well except the mix up with the shims, now i have to get the factory info how, what and where and especially how many to use... To get everything in order.... Some old service instruction needed, so if you have one pdf or similar, i would love to see it. :-) i also broke one part, that i need to replace... ok, due to the lack of time i had to put the parts back pretty fast but it sure starts to look good...

But, have to make this side ready, and then the next side... Oh and the discks has porsche 5-130, vw audi mb 5-112mm and 4-130 boltpatterns so its easier to get a set of nice wheels in to the ghia...

new "lay-out" for the turbo-ghia

i drove to 506 kilometres today to see my black ghia & bring some parts for a mock-up.
i had an idea how to put all the stuff in the engine bay, but when i was trying to make ém there as i wanted, i had to change the plans, for a more easier lay-out, but the best part, is that we can proceed with this new plan. the water/air cooler will be behind the right tail light area, the t04 60-1 turbo will get a longer 90 bend to fit with CB hideaway header, the intake manifold will get a 90 bend over the alternator, after that it will get the butterfly valve and after that comes the cooler, from the cooler to the turbo we will put the dump valve... we will have to get a tank for the cold water, and the radiator also... but in a week the car goes to a welder that will make all the mods, to the brackets, header, injectors, etc...so that the parts can be bolted to the car ...for good. one part that we managed to put in its place, was the wastegate, this is the number four.... huh. check out the pictures... you will get the idea anyway.

turbo garrett t04 60-1

Putting discs in a early front axle

OHeh no easy task in here...i though to put the discs in the 1970 bug, but had to back off because the bad interchange for some parts... The bad part was that i had adapters for the saddles from a early front axle, but it seemes that the bolt pattern is different so i put the drum brakes back to the bug...

Ok whats next in the yard? A convertible 1965 ghia...ok, off the drums and in here the adapters for the saddles bolts right on... Then the discs, no way the bearings have a big missmatch, looks like i need a trip to a machineshop, with the discs....the easy part would be to swap to the dropped spindles...that would be the easy part, because i have those in a box. But i would like to know what must be done with the stock ones to suit...

To be continued...

Heading for a scary ghia

Some parts for the pre-assembly, got to go to kangasniemi pretty fast. And make a try out.

Winter strikes back....

Its not easy with the mother nature, first you want to change to the the drums to accept porsche wheels with summer tyres, and then the nature jokes with you by dropping snow from the sky...

Ok it also started to be very cold working outside in a great flu... So i only made half of the intended work... But the 7x15 fuchs wheels are in the back of the bug....now i only have to swap the disc brakes in front... And the ghia needs some brake check also... Something is wrong inside of a front drum.,.

Too much sparetime - detailing wheels

Due to the never ending problems with my heart, have to take pretty easy for awhile, so what else would be better than paint some wheels, like the awfull looking chrome brms, for my taste they look better like in the picture, painted a bit between the spokes... The winter tyres might be swapped to the summer tyres, pretty soon. And then some repop fooks wheels, the ready painted ones looks like shit to my eyes, but from the chromed and polished ones you can have a nice set of wheels.

I dont like the masking so much, but its worth the hassle...

...ok where will these end? These will...be in the bug and in the karmann ghia i would guess...

Stroker to the panel? Or 2 the vert ghia?

Its hard to decide, which one would be funnier? The panel van goes like the wind, easily, but its not the one that you would like to drive 150 km/h for long...

It would need a red9 fronaxle or something similar... But in the twisty roads its fun, maybe 2 much fun...the fun part would be stopped pretty fast with a 160 hp or so... So what about a 84x94 stroker in a patina ghia vert? That would be fun? ... But the ghias tend to go pretty well even with a 1300 cc... And are fun to drive... Ok, i could try it in that ghia... First. With stock brakes, stock box etc...

But it would be pretty light... So it should be fast aswell! And if these will suck... Then the engine could go to the porsche 912. That would not suck at all...

Some basic info of the engine:

Scat 84 mm

Scat rods porsche bearings

Fk8 cam + straight cut gears

New stroker block from paruzzi

Aa-perf 94 pistons and barrels

Superflows with 48/38 valves

Pauter 1:3 roller rockers

Msd distributor

Carbs or 48 ida throttle bores...

Or a turboset... Will see...

Stuck on snow

I visited my garage today with good intentions like; change the whole front brake assemblys, with new parts, and some joints of the front suspension, but it ended to be a fight against the nature, as there was a lot more snow than before....it was really hard to get the bug in front of the garage. after that i didnt remember that theres also the bearing parts to change and like many times things wont happen so fast... i managed to change one front drum and also the other inner parts, but after that i decided to raise the front as high as i can to have more ground clearance...ok thats done also, but this time it started to come a bit darker, 

I packed my stuff in the v-dub and started to try to go home, but the weather was something like +1 or zero, so the snow was pretty slippery, and heavy....and the bug got stuck many times and ways...

I managed to drive in 30 cm of snow something like 100 meters to another route to the main roads, but without any trails or whasoever in a deep snow this was ment to be unsuccesfull... I was stuck bigtime! And no one near... But i called several neighbours, and one great lady promised to pick us up with the audi quattro... And after 5 minutes there was a car coming to pick up the stuck beetle. It wasnt an easy task for the audi too, we managed to get forward and in some parts the audi driver was going like a maniac... But the reason was that there was so much snow partially that the audi was also making its best to not get stuck...i really felt great after this episode, but my idiotic trust for a "bug with wintertyres-goes everywhere" is gone.

Time to use the showel...and sand...

The front yard...

Theres ex-mas after the christmas, my black ghia will be so happy!

I got a package from autotune.fi today, and it contains a new wastegate ...that fits the turbo exhaust, which means a bit less welding .... Thats great, ok the exhaust needs to be a bit of modified to suit the lenght of the motor...and the garrett t04 60-1 also. But the biggest wow thing in the package was the 

Black box plus the wiring kit, its a MS ecu... Now i will need also the intercooler piping kit...but then its pretty much ok from the parts side...

The Cranky side of the stroker

I got a call from the machine shop, and the crank was ready, a balanced 84mm old scat crankshaft... Who knows how many turns it has... But its grinded for the porsche bearings 0.75 size :-/

The job was to balance the flywheel and the crank...+ and to get the rotational masses lower... Maybe 2 kilos? Dont know... But hey... It will be a "bussimoottori" which is a lame bus engine... Well a fk8 cam and a low compression ratio... :-) funny thing with the flywheel is that it was taken off... Of my 1960 panel vans original engine, so it is a 6v flywheel with 200mm clutch... So the engine will be easy to put for example in my 6volt 1965 ghia vert... But when the engine is ready to rumble, i might be putting it first to the panel van...