Ashley Hollins, Beetle Body Repairs

Ashley's bug came to me for the obligatory bit of welding, Ashley new of my capability and works Ashley was the second of the two whom battled it out in the last few minutes of the auction on eBay for my Pride and joy my yellow 67 Bug, So hence he ended up buying this one that as per the norm has it own fair shair of problems.

That's the bit where i came back in he needed work done and it wanted to be good work at a competative price, That is what i do best and i deliver what the owner wants not what i believe they should do!

After i finished the 1971 Bay Turbo build Ashley's bug was next in, it was in for replacement front and rear Apron's, Inner front wheel arches and a panel in the drivers side floor pan under the seat.

Overall Ashley's bug is a pretty solid Beetle and now a little more now she been with me.

New rear apron fitted & welded in place.

New front apron trial fit.

Front apron welded in place.

I had to repair the spare wheel well as it had a little rot.

Right front inner wheel arch mocked up prior to welding.

Job done, fully welded in nice and solid.

This is the section of floor the rot had appeared round the seat mount, cut this out and put in a new piece of steel.

Seat mount back in place.

Ready to go back home.

Early Bay/Type 2 Turbo Start up.

Not much to say on this one except, we came , we conquered, yes people it lives it breaths the doubters you were all wrong, you still are wrong as to date it still runs fine and aint gone bang.

The two videos below are the first initial fire up and the second is the second run up after it had a few tweeks. Personally i like the second video as you can if you listen with the volume up a bit here the turbo spool and whine on its way down it was a very good day, with a little relief i can tell you.

I would like to say thanks to the people who believed i could do it and offered moral support when i hit the stressy bits it wasnt easy to do from scratch on your own, those people whom are many i know, but Dave C, Claude B, all they guys from Outcast vw and all the people who commented on my facebook page appreciated.

But most of all my wife Julie for putting up with me and my love for VW'S, a challenge and agreeing to the cost cos it wasnt cheep you indeed are a star.

 

Type 2 Turbo update.

Well all be it a little late as most people that read my updates have probably seen it and heard it, so what in this will be nothing new or shout about, But as i meander through life wondering what to do with my self it came upon me that others do actually venture on this site i created some years ago now, these people may just want to know what the final outcome of this project actually resulted in, by this i mean did it actually work or did it just Go bang as some had predicted!!

Fortunately for me and my wallet let alone my life it run, still does some months down the road, Good job really.

So last Blog entry i believe the set up was all be it crudely put together complete on Claude's engine stand and so the story continues, at least you get the ending this time and it was not the Butler?

The oil pipes fitted and the remote filter moved and mounted on a home made bracket.

Oil feed line installed for the Turbo Oil feed.

Heat rap put on the manifold, offer of good advice never do this with out gloves, and never ask you wife to lend a hand with out gloves either, god made me itch, but my wife's some what more delicate hands and arms suffered far more.

Manifold Turbo & waste gate finally bolted in place for the final time.

Put this one in as it looks so cool!

Pipe work done and ready to put in place.

Waste gate pressure pipe in place.

Oil feed in place and the exhaust bolted in place.

Induction Pipes all in Place and clamped up, and dump valve installed.

Another shot of the dump valve in situ.

Finally assembled in its finished state.

Oh yes don't laugh, Exhaust yes that's it, i know some of you have seen it with the silencer added, but i have again removed this and its back to Loud Luv it.

Looks tidy and fits just how i wanted it too it great to prove these things can be done, and that the ones whom believe they know best really you don't?

And that as they say is that, all ready for the initial fire up at the time.



I am, aware that i said i would start it on the trolley but i am an impatient git on a normal day, when i am gagging to test several months of planning and work it just had to go in!

Turbo Charged Early bay, Part 3 and Counting.

Well the long hall of the home grown turbo charged bay continues, in my last post I had started to fabricate the pipe work to go from the turbo to the carb's, yep im going for the blow through option, may choose to change this at a later date but for now this was I believe the easier option & cheaper, that's me all over as im regularly called a cheap skate!
I have now actually pulled the motor from the van in order to find that bloody oil leak that you all complain about?
So I've pulled the motor, identified where the oil was leaking from, collected Claude's home grown engine trolley modified it to take a Bay motor and finished the pipe work.
I have also started to, but not yet finished the remote oil cooler, I've had it for years never got round to doing it.
Pictures below as usual to show my efforts.

This Entry was sponsored by Sainsbury's, Keep reading you will see Why LOL.



Tin ware now completed and fixes back together nicely allowing easy
removal of the rear valance with out removing the whole set up.



The section with exhaust exit pipe going through will remain in place
when the rear apron/valance, call it what you will is removed.



Oil cooler brackets made up.



Oil cooler in place and bolted down, just need to get the mandrel
 cutters out and make the holes for the pipes to come through.



oil cooler brackets bolted in.



Engine out that's been in a long time now since it was fully re-built
some one asked before what size barrels etc. this had being a 1679cc they are 88mm.



Top taken off to find that pesky leak, Generator tower, should have known.



Claude's engine stand, If Sainsbury's made engine trolleys they would probably look like this
 top end mocked up so I could finish the pipe work, note the sectioned curves on the carbs these
 I have made to suit my needs bloody pain staking process
but required to fit in as I want.



A close up to show this was made up of six sections of pipe all cut by hand,
I must be bloody Mad.



And the other side . there not identical either.

One side welded up and added to the first pipe I done that would be the
easier one, and if you look just to you right you will see that one and you
will also work out im a bad liar.

Trial fit before I go any further try once check and check again if I have said that before sorry
 but I have got it wrong so many times before and I have learnt the hard & costly way.

The other side welded up and another trial fit, each weld is done in several
sections to keep the heat down as I have found even after many such projects
that even pipe of this size can distort through heat, In all each of these curves has
actually taken several hours work.

The induction pipe now in its completed State, ready to be refitted for
 hopefully the final time, we shall see.

There we go another mile stone in my on going efforts to further
my on going passion, with Vw's and my Dream of going it alone and
running my own little workshop.

The next step for me is to install the oil feed line & the Oil drain off, complete the cooler pipes, put the heat Rapp on the exhaust, install the pressure pipe and boost gauge, re-assemble the top end then test the motor on Claude's Trolley, that's going to be scary!

All in all im getting there bit by bit, the actual day this gets run up for the first time im going to video it and put it on here so keep watching its going to be interesting?

 

 

And as a last statement and in the words of Americas most famous leader,

 

THATS ALL FOLK'S & DONT FORGET TOO TUNE IN NEXT TIME.

 

VW Type 2 Turbo project Part 2.

In my last post i had achieved Fuck All! Not really LOL,  hang on there just a tick as i need to check the last post to see were i had actually got to, Is that the right were or should it be where? Oh well who actually gives a shit, OK I'm back now i know where i got to in the last post i can carry on with my usual dribble about my on going garage antics, So last pic was of the turbo mocked up on the home grown manifold, since then i have managed to undertake some more on my Bus, The manifold has been completed and checked for fit Bla bla Bla,The waste gate is a 38mm external Tial type the waste gate exhaust has been fabricated and i have cut the hole for this in the rear metal work, I have also cut the rear metal work and added some fixing points so it is now in two pieces and fixes together in situ, i have fabricated the exhaust this is made of several pieces cut and welded together as i could not find a bend tight enough to suite what i required, this I'm sure will be a topic for debate due to the nature of it having no silencer, Mind you my previous exhaust was to say quite loud, so am i bothered? in simple terms NO!.
I am now fabricating the compressor tubes for the induction side of affairs these are going to feed direct into the carbs.

Any way enough of my Dribble pictures below for prosperity i hope people like what they see, Please feel free to comment if you have a google account set up

Exhaust Flange got it off EBay £12.00 Result.

The angle of the bend i required to fit in the space i had was difficult to find even mandrel bent, so i had to create a one off.

Welded up, five individually cut pieces.

Down pipe added.

Flange added ready for that refit.

Well it fits, I'm happy with that!

You can see why it needed that tight bend.

Waste gate exhaust made up, Nice and simple.

Waste gate exhaust fitted.

Tail Pipe fitted.

Tin Ware cut ready for modification to suit my needs.

Tin Joint by the engine seal.

Joint to the rear Apron/Valance your choice of name as I've heard it called both.

Installed in the bus checking for fit.

When you look from under neath the pipe work does look complicated!

All in place for yet another of the countless mock ups.

The creation of the first of the compressor pipes for the induction side, the problem is you have to make it all from scratch the fun of home grown is the achievement's?

Induction pipe second section this was a bit easier just one whole to cut.

Clamped for welding, the good thing about having a good well built and level bench you can clamp to it.

Another weld done not too many more maybe ten or so, i have another two bends to create.

And yet, another mock up, you cant have to many trial fits, looks four times check four times, measure and re-measure, them measure again when you are happy and 110% you got it right tack it, re-fit it and check again, if you need to do another mock up make sure its all as you expect then complete that piece.

 

If i can give any good advice it would be Research first even if it takes months before you are sure you are doing it right, during your project take you time don't rush it will go wrong, don't cut corners if it starts to stress you leave it and go back another day, be patient and always give 100% to your work.

 

Oh yeah one other thing if you have taken the time to research your project, and you get people trying to put you down, stay mature keep level headed and politely and in the best possible taste tell them to FUCK OFF!

 

Keep smiling even if its hard it may just cheer someone else up.

 

 

Thanks for visiting.