Aircooled VW South Africa

Need a sheet of plywood 115cm x 41cm. 1m aluminium 1cm angle. Need vinyl to cover the board and hatch + foam for underneath the vinyl. 2 6x9 speakers. and an aluminuim sheet to strengthen the back. the hatch is 42cm x 35cm. plus you need 34cm of piano hinge. + a dozen or 2 pop rivets and epoxy

Add all ingredients together and tada...
Hope this helps dutch?

Its not perfect but i'm still young and learning...

Drove back from Hermanus. Just enjoying It.

JamesD69 wrote:Hope this helps dutch?

Its not perfect but i'm still young and learning...

So do you want to practice a little more and make me one.....time is a killer at the moment? I'll cover cost, time and a little profit?

Where is the alu & where does it go?

I know, I'm on site 3 days a week now, office mondays and tuesdays, and weekends is socialize and car time. Still have to make up the aluminium panels for my doors and cover them, put the new speakers into them and mount my radio under the dash in the enclosure i made it, mount my central locking kit, clean up my spare box and probably get it into Bugger, Build my 1800 engine and still help my brothers with their puma's a bit. If i get some time i'll make one up for you, but you will have to finish it, since it is a custom fit round the vinyl sides at the back, but its if i can get some time...

If you look in picture 0214 you can see the aluminium at the top and bottom of the board. The top is to reinforce the plywood around the hinge and to add some structural integrity, the bottom is the angle that locks in behind the seat to hold the whole board up and to rest the hatch on. The aluminium also stops the rivets wrecking the plywood. the epoxy goes between the aluminium and plywood prior to the rivots = extra strength.

Just returned from a 1000+km work-related round trip to Polokwane and Phalaborwa with the Khaki Cruiser. Left Johannesburg yesterday at 04:15, first stop Polokwane, then past Tzaneen and the scenic Magoebaskloof Pass to Phalaborwa where I slept last night. I left there at around 16:00 this afternoon and arrived home around 21:00 tonight taking the Hoedspruit/Lydendburg road till I joined the N4 highway near Machadorp for some autobahn cruising the last 200km. The car ran like a dream, so the setting of the valve clearances on Sunday morning was worth the effort! The old lady is due for a good and well-deserved wash early tomorrow morning, as I have to be in Carletonville at noon...

Trip replay for the past two days - the red arrows are speed limit violations (set at 120 km/h)

What's the little gap? The Strydom Tunnel? Or is it called something other than that now? It's been a while since I've been up there, like 20 years.

I didn't know there were that many STEEP downhill sections on that road Pine

Nice to see your car is being used.

Didn't do much on my car, but I did get some pics from the upholsterer, the notch rear seat is done!

Ron&Gill wrote:What's the little gap? The Strydom Tunnel? Or is it called something other than that now? It's been a while since I've been up there, like 20 years.

Well spotted, Ron! The fleet management software written for the company I work for, consists out of a number of 'layers' for the spatials (maps), consisting out of rivers, towns, roads, dams etc. We are currently testing the beta version of the software I have for bugs, of which that little gap is indeed one. (Map layer sequence malfunction). The KC updates every two minutes its position, speed, date and time, as well as with a heading change of more that 30 degrees, and send it through with GPRS data b.m.o. the GSM system to our central server in Midrand. (The GPS receiver inside the Squary does its own internal updates on 1 second intervals.) A small 'gap' like the Strijdom tunnel (which is only about 300 meters long - yes, Ron - I went through it yesterday afternoon and it is still called the Strijdom Tunnel), where there is obviously no GPS signal, will normally not show on a trip replay of this scale (the E to W distance on the map above is about 450 km).






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karmakoma wrote:I didn't know there were that many STEEP downhill sections on that road Pine

Nice to see your car is being used.

Well spotted too, KarmaKoma

getting closer and closer to the finish line

Gave my lenses to a friend to have them painted full red

Ja, but can your gauges change colours. I can choose the colours to go with the mood I'm in

Another day and another step closer........






Damn I struggled with the gauges. Now they work, now they dont, now they work, now they dont.

Found that the virgin dashboard holes where a ball hair to narrow and causing the gauges not to work. Filed the holes all round and all is cool.

But now I found a gauge with a broken wire inside, will repair tonight and proceed tommorrow.

Sunday, repaired the broken wire but no luck the light in the guage does'nt work. OK buy another one. Installed with the bonnet and the windscreen and we're awwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy...................................................




For crying out loud..... I forgot the speedometer cable.......agh, who cares you need speed to feel the wind in your hair...............................................................LIFES A BUG.

Looking great HR!