My Winter project

[Mr P]

As I have mentioned before I have been busy over the cold winter months stripping and rebuilding the engine for my 61 Ghia I have uprated engine from a 1584cc to a 1679cc by fitting larger Barrels and Pistons a performance Engle 110 Cam and twin Empi Kadron Carbs.I have taken care of cooling with full flow oil pump and external filter and done away with heat exchangers and fitted a fan housing without heater pipe outlets.Also uprated to an Alternator and electronic ignition and added a bit of Bling!!!!!!
The gearox is next inline for a makeover and service here are a few pics of progress
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[Kowalski]

Hi Mate,
Cool car, cool reg, cool wheels and an engine thats "almost" as shiny as mine;)

Good work so far, everyone has a favourite model year and an early 60's ghia is near the top of my list, interested to see what else you have planned.

[Luigi Farkelharzen]

Yes!!!!!!

[Shamrockez]

Very nice Mark! :D


Did I see this on the Bus Station's website?

Which set of wheels are you using?

[Mr P]

Hi Luce
Thanks its getting there now!
Yes you did see the Ghia on the Bus station blog Mark fiitted some adjusters to the front beam for me while we went over to the Isle of Wight for the weekend.It can go an 1 1/2" lower at front but I cant get it off drive without digging up the Tarmac!!!!!
The Empi 5 are off the Camper I was cleaning them up and putting new Red bands and centre caps on.

[Shamrockez]

ah I see! We have black and polished 5s on our Bus :D I'm trying to convince Steve that we need redbands on the tyres to match the delux trim and seat beading - but we thought the front tyres might be a bit small - but yours look about the same size - what size are they? (the tyres).


Ah I thought so - they did my beam for my Bug so i was looking on their blog bit before I bought it and thought it was yours. Once mine's passed her MOT I'll send them a pic of mine fitted so they can add it to their blog :)

[Mr P]

FRONTS are 185 /55/ 15s
REARS are 165 /65 15s
This is the second set ive fitted to the bus the fronts tend to ripple and come away I lost one completly on the way to the Reading meet last year I guess it maybe the weight of bus and the movement on sidewall of tyre when turning so ive put 5psi more in fronts to stiffen up side wall see if that makes a difference wait and see!!!!

[Shamrockez]

Let me know how you get on. I was thinking of getting redwalls put into Robbie's wheels too - perhaps I could take his, and Joey's down to Bay Area Rods - cos they can gaft red rubber into the sidewall.

[Mr P]

Will do!
for a quick fix the bands look cool if you dont mind spending £40 every year for a new set as they tend to fad aswell and go pink!!!!!!!!but if you want them to last Id go with your plan and have the colour grafted on. Plus the biggest size is 16" and thats no good for Robbie.

[Shamrockez]

Yeah that's why we thought we'd get his grafted in. Flaps wouldn't be too bad on Joey cos he doesn't do much mileage, so might not get distroyed too fast - but then again if we're at BAR doing Robbie's, we may as well get Joey's done!

[Mr P]

Just thought I would put a little update on my Ghia project stripped gearbox over the last couple of months and replaced bearings as every thing else seemed ok not bad for a 48 year old gearbox
Fitted all new seals gaskets etc painted and detailed its already to go back in car now just got to clean and paint chassis and engine bay.
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[mkoneman]

yum :D

my dad has only ever owned air cooled vw's i think the ghia is the only one he never owned which was a shame as they are such a nice shape

:cool:

[Shamrockez]

Just thought I would put a little update on my Ghia project stripped gearbox over the last couple of months and replaced bearings as every thing else seemed ok not bad for a 48 year old gearbox
Fitted all new seals gaskets etc painted and detailed its already to go back in car now just got to clean and paint chassis and engine bay.
http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj247/Markpovey/th_100_0778.jpg
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are those colour gaitor boots any good? I can't get one side to seal on my Bug - I have the split type ones. I'm just doing it again for the 3rd time :rolleyes:

[Mr P]

Luce these are the split type to but urathane not rubber and you get correct jubilee clips with the kit
The rubber type i fitted to my bus leaked too,Ive used blue gasket sealer on the joints and if you face the joint towards the back of vehicle they tend not to leak as the joint dosnt move about so much dont put joint at top as it flexs up and down and breaks seal
I got my gaitors from COOLAIR cost about £10

[charlie @ evvo.co.uk]

cant wait to see Lulah all unveiled at Dubfreeze - addison will be modelling her funky hat set you bought her so she looks suitably attired to match her :D

[Mr P]

Ooh COOL!:cool:

Glad your coming to Dubfreeze it will be the first outing for the bus this year and the first VW Show for young Addison she will need that hat its always freezzzzzzzzin! but at least the bus is inside the show and shine hall :)

[charlie @ evvo.co.uk]

Ooh COOL!:cool:

Glad your coming to Dubfreeze it will be the first outing for the bus this year and the first VW Show for young Addison she will need that hat its always freezzzzzzzzin! but at least the bus is inside the show and shine hall :)

yeah got to get into the dub scene before some ricer boys get hold of her i.e. my brother :laughing: show her what proper cars are all about......do u want us to bring breakfast or anything?

[Mr P]

Thats upto you I cant cook in camper as not allowed gas bottles inside so we can grab a bacon buttie there or you can bring some with you if your in new V5 Imsure a few off here will be coming along too I think Lucy allways goes to this show to keep her fleet of Dubs on the road!:)

[Shamrockez]

Luce these are the split type to but urathane not rubber and you get correct jubilee clips with the kit
The rubber type i fitted to my bus leaked too,Ive used blue gasket sealer on the joints and if you face the joint towards the back of vehicle they tend not to leak as the joint dosnt move about so much dont put joint at top as it flexs up and down and breaks seal
I got my gaitors from COOLAIR cost about £10
yeah I've just put one of mine back on covered in the blue sealant stuff. One side is perfect and doesn't leak. I had the one that didn't leak with the join at 3o'clock and the one which leaked was at 9o'clock, so I've put the leaky side to 3o'clock to see if that makes a difference.... fingers crossed! She dripped gearbox oil into my eye the other day - nice :mad:

Yep we always go to Dubfreeze :D

[Kitten]

Wow :D That looks gorgeous :D

[Charlotte]

Thats a lovely ghia :) love those wheels with the red bands.
We had our old bay's tyres done by Bay Area Rods, we had some problems with the red bands popping out and wearing the tyre away, so much safer to get them done by BAR :D

[Shamrockez]

Thats a lovely ghia :) love those wheels with the red bands.
We had our old bay's tyres done by Bay Area Rods, we had some problems with the red bands popping out and wearing the tyre away, so much safer to get them done by BAR :D
how much does it cost to get the red bands done? I'd like to get my red Newbie done and our Splitty.

[Charlotte]

It was really resonable it was around £50.00 for the set of 4 on BRM 15's.
Its much much safer and will last a good while, its well worth it.
They were a good bunch of people, its a bit of a way to go (poole) but we took a day off and drove down and one of the guys even dropped us off into poole town/waterfront :cool:
Took a morning for them to do it.
I wanna get my bug done too. pretty sure they do them in different colour but red looks well nice ;)

[Shamrockez]

we're only about 90mins way from Poole now :)

I do like red bands.....

thanks :)