vulgalour
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Dec 23, 2014 14:59:17 GMT
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Ooh, those will look really good. I wonder if you can get a reflective panel to match in the middle of the panel?
I'm concerned I'm glossing over the other big chunk of your update with the mechanical fettling and sorting, equally impressive stuff and great to see it being done.
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Dec 31, 2014 15:07:00 GMT
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I don't think a reflective panel will end on the back. I'm going for a sporty look, rather than a fancy one. I'm closer to a bright orange with satin black go-faster stripes, than a metallic color with chromed trim. There were no aftermarket reflective panels also.
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FJSigma
1989 Volkswagen VW1500 (The argentinian Avenger)
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vulgalour
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Dec 31, 2014 23:06:40 GMT
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Sounds exciting! You can't really lose with orange and black.
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Feb 11, 2015 17:25:59 GMT
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What an amazing project thread! Love seeing the work you have done to this car. I'm intrigued to see the detail changes made by Volkswagen, even down to the Audi/VW markings on the heater box. And yet so much is recognisable from the UK cars. Those rear lights look like someone forgot to fit them at the factory! And it does remind me of a Morris Ital.
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Feb 13, 2015 14:03:38 GMT
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Doive: There were not so many changes made by Volkswagen. Keeping it cheap was always a premise and changes are expensive. The bigger changes with the UK versions were the Holley carburetor (made by Chrysler in the mid seventies), the front suspension (by Volkswagen at the beginning of the eighties) and the Ford gearbox (by Volkswagen at the end of the eighties). The rest were mostly cosmetic stuffs. Making the rear lights look good would have implied to change the rear panel AND the rear fenders. Other cars from the same era, developed better restylings by changing only the rear panel. The rear lights from the Marina seemed to have been used as inspiration for the Dodge 1500 and the front of the Ital as inspiration for the Volkswagen VW1500. Too many coincidences if you ask me...
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FJSigma
1989 Volkswagen VW1500 (The argentinian Avenger)
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This could be called a closure post, since I had to let the car go a couple of weeks ago. To continue with the last post from ending 2014 after those fixes, besides the car ran OK, it didn't do it the way I expected. It started fine most of the times but then it started failing a few minutes later, like in 3 cylinders. If I had to do a pretty long trip, the car was bettering through the process. If I had to go to the supermarket for instance, the came back was worst. Besides that, putting 2nd gear required amazing capabilities from the driver. I took the car to the same guy, but he couldn't find anything strange. He cleaned the carburetor a little, it ran fine for a while and started all the same process after that. So I started to look somebody to fine tune the car, which was an issue itself because nobody wanted to touch it. About June 2015 I've found a guy which used to set Fiats for quarter mile racing and was considered as a Weber TLDE wizard, which was on the car. As soon as he checked it, he found one of the problems being the manifold angle. It was barely angled to other side of the engine, making a small fuel lake right below the Weber. When you put the pedal to the metal, the fuel was cleaned but through slow driving (as I was used to most of the times) small fuel drops made into the cylinders. Using it cold, was even worse. Living the car on the garage for a few weeks, made all the fuel to evaporate and the engine run fine for a few minutes. The solution: re-weld the manifold with the right angle, which needed a device to fix the parts for the welding. Besides that, he changed all the setup: choke removed, all the gliceurs changed, advanced removed (yes, to start up the engine in cold, you had to take some lessons). He also changed some parts on the gear selector. As a result, the car run like never in the past. It felt a little slow at low end but at the high end it run better than a new car. He checked it on a dyno: It did almost 84HP to the wheel! More than 95CV at the engine. A month later the radiator broke because of the friction with the chassis. It was removed, fixed and reinstalled with some rubbers to avoid it to happen again. I changed some small things like the grille and added a gas oil filter to keep the carburetor clean. Unfortunately for the car, in October 2015 my youngest daughter was born and my free time and economy changed radically. During 2016 I moved to a small house without any space for a second car, meaning I had to pay for a storage place. It started to run worse every month because of the lack of use and at the end at 2017 I couldn't have it anymore, so it changed from owner. Some goodby pics. It was driven about 350km to its new destination. It will be a donor for this car, which shell is in better shape than mine.
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FJSigma
1989 Volkswagen VW1500 (The argentinian Avenger)
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vulgalour
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A shame the story ended this way on this one. Still, sounds like you have bigger projects in your life and at least the heart of this car will live on in another. Onwards and upwards, no regrets! Thank you for making the last post here, too often projects just end and we never know why.
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Neil
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A real shame you had to let go, but totally understandable. I have enjoyed this thread and have followed it from the very beginning. Please stick around, mate.
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A real shame you had to let go, but totally understandable. I have enjoyed this thread and have followed it from the very beginning. Please stick around, mate. Sure thing.
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FJSigma
1989 Volkswagen VW1500 (The argentinian Avenger)
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