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Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on August 29, 2004, 09:29:25 PM

this is my under construction rat/cal look beetle, has a 1914cc motor, with dual dellortos (36) bernie bergman dominater heads, and thats all i had receipts for so the rest is a mystery. I bought the car in July and stripped it down, now im putting the pieces back together, next investment is some 145/60/r15s up front and 195s/70/r15s, in the back, next summer i plan on getting either brms or Ercos and the interior finished,  tell me what ya think, and or if you have any cool ideas?

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Tom

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: Chris on August 29, 2004, 09:41:10 PM

paint it black!  

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on August 29, 2004, 09:47:31 PM

theres already enuf primer black ones out there, im gonna paint it a dark/sky blue in spring(flat colour)

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: Shane on August 30, 2004, 06:27:40 AM

she looks good... you and James should race those 1914's did you get your engone from Dave? if so I heard yours is faster than James, side note: where you have the hose and bolt coming out of your breather, why dont you go to Airspeed and pick up a little aircleaner filter for that, would look good and is only about $5.

 :P

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: silas on August 30, 2004, 03:53:04 PM

looks great tom. keep up the good work.

whats up w/ the 4 lugs? is it rollin on a late pan? are you going to swap it back to 5?

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on August 30, 2004, 11:01:31 PM

thanx shane, i'll be sure to throw a filter on there, and the motor came with the car, i dunno a dave that builds engines,  the car has four lugs cause the person who had it last converted it to disc brakes and i guess he took the cheap route, next year when i buy wheels im also gonna change it over to five lug. i really dont like the four lug setup, but i do like the front discs.

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: James Buchan on August 30, 2004, 11:08:32 PM

Ya bring her out to the track it's a blast!

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: silas on August 31, 2004, 05:46:35 PM

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i really dont like the four lug setup, but i do like the front discs.

hey tom, have you considered wide five front discs?

cbperformance or csp perhaps? a little more $$ but worth it imho. what kind of spindles do you have on the front now?

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on August 31, 2004, 10:35:07 PM

are these pics werking now or not? i had em comming off the samba but they quit werking, now i put em on imagestation, i probably will change them to wide 5 discs silas, just not yet, thats big money!!  :mullet:  

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: Hansk on August 31, 2004, 11:40:43 PM

not for me  

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: Chris on August 31, 2004, 11:47:27 PM

or for me.

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on September 01, 2004, 07:35:59 PM

there we go, i put the pics on a geocities page i just made, they seem to work now. :)  

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: OUTKAST on September 01, 2004, 08:02:04 PM

Cool ride I thought the pics were not ever going to show Deep re primer might look good :)  

Title: Tom's 65 Rat/cal Look Beetle
Post by: Hansk on September 01, 2004, 11:27:55 PM

;)