This morning I stripped the fuel delivery system from the car. There was a mid range, part throttle, stumble that wasn’t affected by making adjustments. I feel I need MORE FUEL!!! I’ll have a larger capacity fuel pump tomorrow and will install with larger fuel lines. The only restriction left in the system will be the supply line built into the…[Read more]

Roy, that was a great video. Ah, to have all that equipment and, not to mention, all that time.

Jack, my wipers always parked to the left. Do different VW wiper motors park differently?

Now you get to play with the adjustment screw on the arm and get them to park flat.

While I was supposed to be working on figuring out how to mount the wind wings on Manypenny, I got side-tracked with coming up with a way of mounting my “signature” pocket watch/stopwatch panel on the car.  By the way, as a nod to modern technology and keeping from having to wind the pocket watch, I found a quartz battery powered one that looks…[Read more]

WOW!!  I guess I just need a metal lathe, a TIG welder, a metal brake, a white board so I can do some geometry and trigonometry  (tangents and squared and stuff) and about an extra 10 years to learn how to use it all…

…or I can just take a set of wiper arms from a 1971 VW, pull off the bottom mount sections, attach them to a set of TRICO o…[Read more]

Page 403 of the Empi catalog has a couple. Amazon has a couple of others. I bought the Empi model 16-9550 from Amazon! It’s okay and the cheapest readily available. I made some modifications to the rear most pocket area by using a black plastic box to convert it to an area to install a USB port, 12 volt receptacle and switches for my seat w…[Read more]

The wipers on my Classic Mini are anemic also.

I thought of the improvements made by “these guys” but could not find my step drill bit so I ultimately decided to not drive in the rain.

(“Bad Obsession” is an apt name for these guys.)

Well-done, Bill.

And Jack—you’re no slouch either.

But the real kings of “if it don’t fit, re-engineer it” are these guys. Link is to the video of them making the wipers work on their Mini. The hell of it is, they DID fit!

I need to do  a”1st drive one than the other”  run and then report how they compare.

So far, ManyPenny feels more like driving a more refined vehicle meant for current roads…Emma feels more “1952 car-like.”

I’ll be able to find better words once I drive both cars a bit more.

Happy Jack

…and I’m whining about making door panels — Great work, Bill — you are my “if it don’t fit, re-engineer it” hero!!

It’s my guess that ManyPenny feels better balanced on the road, than does Emma. Now that you have both configurations, what are your feelings?

Congratulation on finishing this stage of your build. (They’re never done)

Ok. In mounting the fenders I couldn’t get them off the tires. It seems the shock manufacturer moved the location of the threads that held the adjustable lower spring perch. Even cranked up to its limits the tires rubbed.

A local race car shop was able to supply a longer spring, but everything snowballs, the lower control arms had to come off …[Read more]