[Tom Albright]

I solved this problem by making a zero dish wheel. It’s not that hard if you know CAD and know of a sheetmetal shop with a CNC laser, plasma, or waterjet cutter.  Draw the design of your choice in CAD (must be good quality with all vectors attached). 

 A CNC shop can convert your drawing to G-code and cut out your shape.  I used 1/8″ carbon steel with paint but stainless would have been a better choice.

I drilled out the rivets from the original wheel and tranferred the wood parts to the new wheel.

It was labor intensive but also cheap.

[Tom Albright]

Thanks for everyones input.  I suspected that I would have to come up with a support as shown.

 

[Tom Albright]

I thought of doing the same thing.  Once I started looking at the available room for batteries and the lack of sufficient structure to support them, I decided to stick to gasoline. 

If I were to do it, I would consider building a structural tube space frame to replace the VW pan.  This would be a bigger project than I am ready for.

Tom A from Reading, PA

[Tom Albright]

Rollie:

Im restoring a MIGI and have the same problem with muffler clearance.  Just to make sure, did you install the #3487?  I was not totally sure from the E-mail chatter if you installaed the 3417 or the 3487. 

Tom A

[Tom Albright]

Rollie wrote:

Well I put the muffler on, and it is a total success ! It clears the deck by a lot and eliminates the heat issue in that area. I really like the sound, kind of a deep burble. No popping on decelleration and at 60 mph , you can still hear it , but it is not load. And…. The muffler doesn’t show and the single pipe looks great ! Thanks for the advice folks, I couldn’t be more pleased. Also, if it has lost any power by removing the extractors, I cannot tell it.  Rollie

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