64valiant Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 so i did a thingthese came up on tard and i said to my mate if you buy my 8 inch rims today il buy these.pretty happy with how its turned out.they are 5 1/2 inch rims and im running a 205 65 in the rear. time for Hanmer Springsoh also put a stereo in it put some carpet over my tunnel that looks ugly, made a parcel tray also. plugged a few holes and what not. happy camper now 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted September 19, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2016 soooooo i went on a long drive1100kms to be exact (or around that any way) minus about 130 od kms short of what i wanted to drive but probaly about 40kms i shouldnt have done hahakinda went a bit like thisdrove threw desert road while it was snowing. was snowing quite a lot. had a ball. was at lest 2 inches on the road as we where driving threw. we made it to bizzos house just on midnight. spun some yarns and patted his doggy!!next morning we went to the ferry with them and i dropped some rims off.went and waited for our ferrygot on a boatIM ON A MOTHER FUCKEN BOAT BITCHES!!!!oh i broke down just outa hamilton little black wire fell off. while i was fixing that i noticed my air in take joiner was broken. when i got to bizzos place i jumped on my friend face book and hit up the world of vw owners, turns out dude in nelson had one and yea went to his place. rad much tanks to him i was able to fix it at shanes place (sidewayssickness) guys a gc and has a cool work shopyea thats me fixing my vw againold jeffy took a rad photo of us cruisinggot sloshed with good peopleshaz looks a bit crazy with her drinking glasses on and bottle caps in her eyeswoke up with sweet views in st anardsbizzo chucked on goats rad glassesvw goes pretty hunitzit was at this point we decided we should turn around cause our cars where to low and our road wasnt good jeffy taking sweet photos of us been scared for our dare life FT my swag pillow case from my child hoodwe made it to hanmer!!!!!!!!!!we got drunk and the next morning i thought id go into town sort out breakymy vw thought different thanks vw.so while i pondered on my life and why i own a volkswagen i got to laugh at these guys roll there guards turns out engine seized. wahoooooo wtf vwso un seized it and then seized it again. wahoooo time to go on a trailer!!! screw you vwso yea dane was nice enough to bring one and we vw fitted on it perfect got drunk for another night and then hogan and his lovely other half gave me a nice ride home in a reliable car. was so comfy and had power was also quite. dont know why they would want it. sounds like a silly thing to have.any way this then happened this morning i spoke to hogan and he said yea no probs. no probs was he would chuck in on a pellet and send it up to tron for me to rebuild. said hes busy a few sats so kinda just see how it goes. so i thought shit chris (bornloser) is a GC! and he works nights wonder if he can send it. gave him a message and he said yea man could do that wednesday!!! fuck yea sick as aids!!!!!!so yeah engine rebuild is on the go.great car.sweet yarnsmaking great friends and even better story's to tell in my older days, oldschool.co.ng is rad!!!for ever thing else there is master card.thank you all for helping me out so far! 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted October 3, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2016 so here is an update for the people who dont see my face book stuff.my vw welded number 2 main bearing from the fly wheel.while we tried to un seize it we fucked the bearing even more....looks like this nowhopefully Paul has the engine done and back together this week and i am able to send it back down the following weekend ready for my trip home.any way while this beetle is been fixed i thought ah well i got a bit more day light now i may as well get into my other vw. im not going to bother starting another build thread for it cause practically the same car just a bit different.... started like this it started looking something like thisand shit got roofless pretty quick now looks like thisand like thisaction shot of me doing some workand im crossing my fingers. found an adopter to suite rotary in oz that mr west is going to pick up for me if this guy isnt all shit.....so fingers crossed i have some fun with this bug. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted October 26, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2016 so i made it back after my interesting long weekend away..... and it kinda went a little like thishogan picked me up from the motel and we proceeded to pick up my engine and head to metric nut to grab some engine mounts as i forgot to grab some before i left.let the fun begin so this kinda took me half a day mucking around and what not. Chris was kind enough to also head to metric nut and grab a few things before heading over earlier in the day to spin some yarns ect ect, we got it going to find my generator wasnt chraging.....prior to trying to leave to go get my generator fixed hogan spotted fuel dropping on the ground so back in the shed again. fuel line and filter change was in needso a quick drive over the to the metric nut again and said i need some parts.... they sold me everything as at this stage i didnt give a toss i just wanted the bug going.back to hogans place to pull it apart and change the fan and everything else..... pain in the back side have to pull half the motor apart to get the thing outoh the metric nut has some bad ass crap in there shopoh hold up they had there shop truck in there alsonot one split single cab, MOTHER FUCKER HAD TWO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!any way they are a bunch of gcs and i thank them heaps!so heaps of advertising for them in my thread.... but back to the normal crap. beth was keeping every one updated in her snap chat storygot it going at midnight after spinning some yarns with bart. was rad he came to visit. we slept on hogans couch for the night and got up nice a early and headed north towards my brothers place (everyone google Manaroa) any way made our way north. it was a tad cold in the bug. so out with the double sleeping bag to keep warmand yup thats me changing gears with sleeping bag covering gear stick haha.made it to my brothers place surprisingly. here is a photo of me leaving his place. farm land left and right is his farm pretty muchas we arrived at picton i started to hear a grinding noise which i wasnt happy about...... and here i am tightening my hub nutso we made it onto the ferry and off the ferry. beth wanted to catch up with her friend in welly, sweet as we walk the street i jokingly said lol old record shop il know some one in there..... why hello there snoozing richy what cha upto....... a beer and some curly fries later we are off to bizzos place to try fix my vw correctly........yea well that didnt happen......hub nut came loose again...and againbeth was good at keeping everyone informed about me braking down..any way it happened 6 times between picton and taupo. last one was 2 mins away from our accommodation in taupo. made it there and had the best sleep ever!!! next morning i texted tom asking if he was able to help me fix my lemon. we went to leave to have breakfast and head to toms place. and now we have a no speed vw. at this point a rang my mum asked if she could go get my car and trailer and come pick us up. mean while had a good breakfast walked to toms house spun some yarns and checked out all his cars. much radness.chucked the car on the trailer. and if ya boxer engine car brakes down you call in the new boxer engine car to tow you home new car paying off already. any way got it home left it out side for the night and had a look at it tuesday arvo. to find this......yes thats correct its ment to have a spline in there. so out to the vdubshoppe new drum and hub nut. cleaned out the bearing and slapped some new grease in there and put it all back together in time to go for a bike ride. and yesterday i went for a drive with Joel the jew to grab some potos while his brother was in from aus.and for those who didnt google where my brother lives here is beth pointing out where he lives.....and bonus photos of how nice it was on the ferryphotobucket stopped working so hopefully last pics stay up or lest this reminds me to change them later.ready for summer now i think.oh yeah spoke to the vdubshoppe about whats the go with my engine ect ect. paul has charged me for new parts and no labor on the new rebuild and re rebuilt it himself. so that came in at 400 so not fazed at that and lest they helped out and turned the engine around in short amount of time. that was with the crank skimmed and xrayed for cracks again. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 21, 2016 Author Share Posted November 21, 2016 So the vw broke again.... lol Nah the inner clutch cable tube I dodgy welded on about a year ago snapped the weld and made the clutch a prick to deal with so I jacked it up and realised the cable. Took the bendy hose out and put the inner Rod back into its correct location and welded it all up again. With a gasles welder again. Hoping it will hold another year. Also the rear is way to high now so will get around to lowering it another inch before the weekend which is stragglers. Kinda brought another body again... so I gotta hide that some how. Mr West was kind enough to bring back a Rotary adapter plate back from ozz for me so I think il just build another bug out of the spare parts I have. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 so i welded the tube back in place gasless again. and its fixed perfect.went for a drive to stragglers hot rod and custom fundraiser and the beetle went like a champ. has a slight exhuast leak that i was going to repair while i was in chch at hogans but yeah scratch that idea. ive got some j pipes here so il get my ass into gear and put them before xmas hopefully.but here is a picture of it the other day after going to stragglers also picked up my other beetle. so il end up painting my together beetle and selling it early next year once ive cleaned it up and re done the upholstery to fund my new vw. so if some one wants it let me know keen on swaps for rotary engine. cheers 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted December 8, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2016 that moment you go to price a job and come home with another beetle....so the midnight bug is most definitely up for sale now! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 Well that's that done and dusted. Sold the old girl. It was a good almost 2 years. Learnt a crap load and meet a lot of people but time has come and she has gone to a new home in whangarei. I sold her minus my 1600 twin port as I gave him options on how he can buy it. He purchased it with the old 1300 single port as he was going to rebuild it himself. Cash in hand all gone. Onwards and upwards (more or less side step) from here. He even read my hole build thread. Time for Dave to reply to his pm regarding Rotary so I can slap a Rotary bug together now. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted December 18, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2016 12a bridge port acquired Let the fun begin 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 4, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2017 So I pulled the body off the pan. What a bloody mess that was. Rust everywhere and a lot of seezed bolts. I have entered 4s & Rotars so I have aprox 24 days to install Rotary and make it run and re upholster it also. Don't know what colour to do this one. Evan wants camo white 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 10, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 so a bit of an update. Dave and Evan came to town today and got crazy with a grinder. they cut/cleaned the heater channels. after that we made some progress with bolting the engine in all in and hanging there buy it self now. pretty happy with tha i then shot to phils panel and paint (mates business) we then got crazy and sanded the body and ended up painting it in primer tomorrow will run pipes so i can have a radiator and will sort out a few other parts. exhaust and what ever some one has spare time to do. pretty exciting and amped to get it done now. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 12, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2017 Fuck Dave (sentradave) and Evan are fucken good. Also gotta put it to geophy also. These guys a helping a shit load with this build. Even had rhyscar over tonight helping out where he could for a little bit. Today we got water pipes completed and the base of the heater channels welded on looking stronger than ever. We assembled my front beam that I kindly borrowed off Joel. I think I'm going to have to cave in and buy a friken narrowed beam and some drop spindles to make this thing really work. Rhyscar also put my brake lines In and made it look good. Had mitchfromhilcrest pop in once his mower decided to shit the bed and quickly put him to work He made great progress on my exhuast and shit yeah it's going to be loud. Earlier in the morning I also checked to see if my engine lid will fit also. Yup that's going to fit. Wicked. Off to the painters that goes also. Ned also fucked his tyre on his way home so I sorted him a new tyre and he helped out cutting and holding stuff. These people are awesome. Thanks everyone so far helping. You guys rock. 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 17, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2017 the colour has been picked up from the paint shop should go down tonight or tomorrow 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 19, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2017 No caption needed 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 19, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2017 Oh and this. And geophys bos sorted me out and ida and I thought since the guys next door have a vaper blaster I'd do the nice thing and clean it up for him while I use it Nice before and after. Also some one tells me I've got 1500 axles in the rear of my vw which makes things 25 mm wider either side..... Someone wona clarify this for me. Cheers haha. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2017 She's on the ground and goes. Well kinda goes. Not that bad for 22 days including this morning 40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 Here is a link to a video of it on face book https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1708287115864634&id=100000500863297 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 26, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2017 drove this for the very 1st time today. not bad for 22 days ago it was on axle stands and i was cutting the other floor pan out. 36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 19, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2017 Just a little update. Made it into performance car mag Won best conversion at reunion Got best under construction and best euro at auto fest in the weekend. Time to do the last things ready for beach hop. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 21, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2017 Man I can't help myself but share this here. So over the moon with how well it's come out. Oh beach hop also starts tomorrow and my car looks like this. So excited to get there. Got a fair bit to go but we can do it. EXCITING!!! 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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