Looking Good!

I think on my TDr everything is 5mm hose since it is carbureted, I used the equivalent fractional size though. 

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Well my FF TDr doesn’t have any fender braces and I haven’t ever had a problem with flexing. 

When I filled up this morning the premium 91 octane I get was $3.30…

Allen I was being a bit sarcastic, I don’t know if you saw the photo in the link where it looks like there are about 10 leading to or from the alternator. Almost like they are using more than one wire together to make up for too-small gauge.

How many wires do you need connected to an alternator?? 😮

I’m almost wondering if they are the same car? They look almost identical to me!

Yes that is correct, on the beetle the ignition switch is part of the steering column. You should still be able to trace it and wire it how you will. 

Wow that looks nice! I’m hoping to do something similar when I rewire the mess behind the dash. 

I have not been using my hard top at all lately since the canvas is perfectly enjoyable in nice weather and I have a properly enclosed car to drive otherwise. It would take a little work and maybe some new vinyl or paint to get it looking tip top again, but I would be willing to part with it. It’s fairly heavy and large so I’m not sure how…[Read more]

Looks like a good start! For wiring I would jump over to thesamba.com and download one of the later (maybe 70 or so) wiring diagrams to help run everything as it should be a very similar layout. I even bought a used never installed wiring loom for VW and modified it to fit. It works well but I need to clean up under the dash at some…[Read more]

Awesome, thanks Paul!

I know that problem, had mine out for just one night and the next morning the passenger compartment smelled of cat pee… Took weeks to get it all the way out. 

Ha! That is quite entertaining and would be fun to see! Thanks for the history lesson Paul, I love hearing about odd little tidbits such as that.

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WOW! Those wire wheels do look quite smart! 

Or buy one of us west coasters a plane ticket, I’m sure we would be more than happy to help out! 😉

Ok great to hear about the dolphin gauges, I sent them an email about a “custom” set with the 5″ speedo and tach and a voltmeter, clock, and fuel. He said it would be about $400. 

I’ve been looking over my options doing some research and the Dolphin gauges look pretty nice. Spike do you have one of their speedometers and does it read accurately with the VW cable and tire size?

Thanks for the tips guys!

Ed- do the beetle speedo and classic instruments tach match fairly well? I would like to have the two “clusters” match among themselves as closely as possible but that could just be me being a perfectionist! 

Along the lines of this topic does anyone know of where to get a speedometer and tach for VW? (Tach is easy but a matching speedo with the VW cable connection is not) VDO doesn’t make a gauge with the analog cable input, all theirs are digital now and to convert from cable to digital needs a few expensive bits…