Seems to working just fine. Nice job!

good thing you noticed the wobble before it was too late. She’s gotta go and importantly, she’s gotta stop. Yes, reducing the air pressure to around 16 or 17 pounds in the front will make it ride a little better. Some of the guys have put some weights in the front to compensate for the light front end or have taken some of the springs (torsion…[Read more]

Shounds good Schu. Hopefully we can go on a little cruise before that.

Well I got it all apart. The Nuts and bolts that were used had chrome head caps but the treads were rusted very badly. I had to destroy the chrome caps to get the bolts out. (vice grips will do that) I plan an replacing all of the nuts and bolts with stainless so If I have to ever do this again it should be a simple process. The previous owner had…[Read more]

Thank you John for your insight. I will begin the disassembly tomorrow. Thanks also Ed for letting me know that I will not be the only one with this little bit of custom work.

Agreed. I looked at the ford bases kit build manual. Firewall is a big issue.

Welcome to the forum Tom. Seeing this thread I just had an interesting thought, is it possible to take a VW based kit and turn it into a front engine kit buy just swapping the body onto a front engine frame? If so do we have a layout of a buildable frame?

Hey Crash55 I wonder if they would take a mail order? 🙂 I could send them my top. It has shrunk a little but at that price it might be worth the gamble.

or this one – 

MGA ran 15 inch wheels. You can get tubeless painted wires 60 spoke from MOSS Motors. About $225.00 a wheel.

Here is where you can get a new throttle arm connector. 

Nice and nice to know.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

Here is the wiring diagram from the dune buggy kit I used. Yes, It has leads for oil pressure, Tach and you can get a volt reading from the switch. Let me know if this is too hard to read I can PM a copy to you.

If you have a VW based kit you can look for a dune buggy wiring kit (ebay, most vw type 1 bug suppliers about $60.00). Very simple to get started and it will give you the main wiring and a diagram to show you how to get everything sorted (Ed China here). The only thing about those is that they use the old VW ceramic type fuses which is usable. I…[Read more]

You can also find 9″ wiper blades on e-bay. You can also just google 9″ wiper blades. They are around.

BTW – The Event is May 20, 21 and 22. In the hotel info is references May 19th, 20 and 21. There are still rooms available for those last minute people like me. 🙂

PMOS…[Read more]