No, I didn’t do any modifications, I assume its the standard Lafer design. I
believe that the only modification to the handle are the cable brackets. On
the chassis there is a hardened steel gear rack ( like a section of gear) that
needs to be rotated about 40-50 degrees in such a way that the ratchet
tooth already existing inside the brake…[Read more]

No, this specific type of disk brake kit doesn’t push the wheels further out. If
you use the adapters that bolt to the standard 4 or 5 bolt wheel hubs these
do increase the overall width from left bolt face to right bolt face by about 1-
1/2″ – 2″ total.

The Lafer has three side windows. The front cowl window is attached to a chrome rail
that fits into the door. This chrome rail (along with its attached front cowl window) can
be pulled out of the door completely. The door window slides in the chrome rail and
can move up and down (down to a certain degree only) via a window pull connected to…[Read more]

Front brake setup….

..and the rear which use standard VW beetle cables for the hand brake..

There seems to be many suppliers offering front disk brake kits and most of the ones
I looked at were made in Brazil. The rear brakes were more of a challenge because I
found most of them didn’t have a provision for the cable type hand brake. Some kits
offered a type of hydraulic lockout valve equivalent to leaving the brake pedal
depressed but I…[Read more]

body after coming back from paint shop sitting next to finished pan..

…and finally finished car…

Thanks for the positive comments on the pan!! Several years ago I bought a
fairly beat up but as it turned out, very complete, Lafer on ebay because my sons
wanted to rebuild a car. Their interest lasted about 3 days but I was hooked and
after a few weeks of indecision decided to rebuild it from the ground up. Thus I
ended up with probably…[Read more]

Sorry , forgot to resize original photos…

The MP Lafer’s also have a vertical handbrake. If I recall correctly their
modification is only to the handle itself by repositioning the “ratchet” gear
and by adding a couple of tabs to attach the brake
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Having fully rebuilt a Lafer I can tell you that on my car the gray and brown
wires in the front hood area go to the Fuel level sender installed on the gas
tank.