I have finally finished my car.
 

Ok, I lied. I'm still waiting on the door panels, but besides that, it's finished, shook down, road tested, and licensed. Here's some recent pictures after I just washed it (with filtered pond water because of the drought, no kidding :shocked:) and glazed it.

She sure is purdy!!! How about some YouTube!

Jason

Hmmmm Very Nice love the colour too.

Chris.

Sorry Jason, I don't have a camcorder. This car's been eatin' all my audio-visual duckets. :rolleyes:

Suffice to say, I'm impressed with the power and especially the torque which starts to get beefy at 2200 rpm, and doesn't go away until somewhere after 5k.

The chassis feels much stiffer than the '71, takes turns much faster, and with far less body roll as well.

Very nice!

very nice yeti i have several pics of your 71. matter of fact it , noh2o's smackblack , and zens quasi were all what inspired me to do Laz as a germanlooker.so it goes without saying im sure it looks muck better in person and i look forward to seeing it soon.

looks real good :cool: . are they standard or wide arches?

Thanks! They're 2" wider per side in front, and 3" per side in back.



Thanks Laz. To me, this car just looks plain sick in person compared to Sue's '71 because it's wider at both ends, and has all the stainless steel exhaust pornography hanging out from underneath. The Kerscher 911 dash and the 944 seats kind of give it an exotic touch.

I drove it to work today, and during my lunch hour I went for a 20 mile highway drive to see where the temps would end up again. I drove pretty hard for 15 miles or so to get a good heat load, and drove REAL hard leaving one stoplight. The right head barely made it to 300, and the left one was about 280 (inverse of what I expected, but maybe because of the heat shield under the left bank covering my oil plumbing), and the oil temp was exactly halfway up the gauge. I probed the dipstick tube with a thermometer for 15 min immediately after shutdown and observed 176 degrees, and dropping, and it was about 65 degrees ambient temp today.

Sweet looking ride. Glad to hear it is doing well.
Bring it down to Dyno Day in march and join in the Type 4 line up.

Yeti,
The car looks great, I can't wait to see it.
Nice job!!!

Awesome man! perfect ride height, and very clean.
Funny color;) , I was so close to painting my 1303 in a dark metalic blue like yours, but i decided that staying with the original L41 black was the way to go.

Jonathan

Another great german style car!

Great car!

How did you make the rear bumper fit so well with widened fenders?

I just trimmed the bottoms of the ends before I painted it, and made sure I installed it as far back as it would go. I didn't end up with much room between the ends and the fenders though. There may be 2" clearance from the fenders at both ends.

Nice one! Love the look of it. :)

Thank you for all the complements, and kind words fellas. It was a bona-fide pain in the @$$ getting the car to this point, but the last month of driving, and dialing the car in has been duly rewarding. It drives so much different than it did on New Years day, it's unbelievable.

I squared up the suspension without adjusting anything to a specific setting, except the toe. All I wanted to do was make both sides equal, but with the correct toe angle for a Superbeetle, so the front camber is -0.6 degrees, and front caster is +2.9 on both sides. It feels like there's no real center to the steering. If I turn a few degrees either way at highway speed (like passing on a four lane road for instance) the steering wheel will stay there. If I'm driving straight, it stays straight, so there's a 'won't return' area in the center range of the steering wheel. I'm going to increase the right front caster to +3.0, or +3.1 degrees to see if that will center the steering against the crown in the road surface.

The rear ended up at +2.3 degrees camber, and 1/32 toe in. I also raised the ride height at least 2" in the rear, which made a very positive difference in the way the car drove. It feels so much more stable at speed. Totally the opposite of what I expected, but I guess having my car so close to the bumpstops didn't give the torsion bars enough working range, and bottoming out on the bumpstops upset the back end to much. I'm certain the chassis can truly outperform the aerodynamic capabilities of the car. Kinda scary.

Great car!

May I ask how you are measuring your caster? I've been looking at purchasing a bubble style gauge, but would appreciate some feedback or suggestions.....

Lanner

I have use of Hunter P411 at work. It's a great situation for me because I can make adjustments, and relate the driving difference to the measurements on paper.

I haven't looked into finding a bubble gauge. Does any tool mfg still make those? I remember my Dad had a Bear hub mounted bubble gauge, slip plates, and toe pointers maybe 15+ years ago.

Hi

I have a stock cambered 1303 and its very low so the camber is way off, I'm getting good wheel return still. Is your steering box or rack not too tight?

Steve

My exct same thoughts; adjusting screw of steering box turned in too far?

No. I would have felt that, and known the difference. The steering components have no mechanical binding whatsoever. Anywhere.

what is the colour? Looks like the same colour as mine;)
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...8.jpg~original

Porsche Iris blue. The code is L39V

Thanks hun. great to see a bug the same colour as mine:D :cool:

:) My pleasure.

Looking good Yeti !
What are those mirrors ?

Rob.

Thanks. :)

It's just a stock one painted black, only on the driver's side. It's the one that came with the car, but with a new piece of glass I got out of a cheap "made in China" repro. I put the glass, and plastic ring in the mirror body with the glass taped off, primed and sealed it with Lesonol epoxy sealer, and painted with DuPont Centari gloss pitch black.

Oh, yes. I ground all the chrome off the pieces first. :p

these wheels are of 15 polegadas?