Hello check out my 59 with suicide doors

Maybe you will have better luck with these staying on and not coming off while driving down the road.

LOL

votwing wrote:Maybe you will have better luck with these staying on and not coming off while driving down the road.

LOL

Yeah i was thinkin that when I was putting them on... alot more treads in the drums, the centerlines were quite a bit thicker.

looks like my 53

yours is way nicer than mine, WOW. Wish I had a split that is pretty much the look im going for

Those wide 5s are the deal!

Toby spent the night In the driveway with his girlfriend, he likes em young

ordered some poppers and remotes for the doors... no more having to leave the window down to open the door from the outside, and no more shutting the door with the window up and screaming CRAP as its about to slam shut It is so had to break in a car without normal door handles . I have only done that twice



As soon as I can find my camera Ill snap some pics of toby in his new home.

The new shop nice, dry and warm :Rockit: First project is gonna be poppers, and solenoids then front apron...gotta work the weekend next day off is not until monday then the next weekend after so... until then, just need TIME!!!!!!

new tires came in for the gli today so I will be roasting the crap out of the old ones Ill see if I can get a video up.

Got the popper kit in today, did the drivers side... pretty sweet



best mounting point with nothing in the way

That is definitely cool.

Cool man. No more leaving the window down!

me next right??? jk leavin it the way it is for now

Those are awesome. There was a story I read on Volkswebbin about a guy with suicides and pop locks. They were RF controlled. He traveled a stretch of highway that was home to a bunch of technical communication companies. One day driving home, radio up, 65mph down the hwy and pop................................bam! Ripped the frickin' door off. He cleaned the shit out of his pants, inspected the damage and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except the obvious missing door. The only thing he thought could have happened was that one of those companies was broadcasting at the exact or within range of his RF. The topper to the story is that this was his fault. His particular brand has a fail safe. If the ignition is on the unit is disabled, but this only happens if you actually connect that wire. He had not!

You live and you learn..................................you've got that wire on, right?

U still aint got that apron on yet, chop chop, lets go, lol

71_georgia_beetle wrote:Those are awesome. There was a story I read on Volkswebbin about a guy with suicides and pop locks. They were RF controlled. He traveled a stretch of highway that was home to a bunch of technical communication companies. One day driving home, radio up, 65mph down the hwy and pop................................bam! Ripped the frickin' door off. He cleaned the shit out of his pants, inspected the damage and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except the obvious missing door. The only thing he thought could have happened was that one of those companies was broadcasting at the exact or within range of his RF. The topper to the story is that this was his fault. His particular brand has a fail safe. If the ignition is on the unit is disabled, but this only happens if you actually connect that wire. He had not!

You live and you learn..................................you've got that wire on, right?

oh yea it can only pop with the ignition off... I hope I connected the wire and tested it

OH, i didn't see it anywhere, but what kit did ya buy? and where? let us know how the install went, cause i'm thinking of getting that for my bug.

the install was pretty straight forward, the hardest part was making sure everything worked with the windows up and down and nothing got in the way. I got the kit off of ebay, just type in shaved door kit they have many to choose from, i just got the 40 lbs solinoied kit with no alarm just transmitter... basicially everything you see in the pic is what came in the kit, minus the apron I also have the option to add other thnigs to the transmitter, anything electrical can be hooked to it and turned on and off, as long as you provide the relays for it. I will do more detailed pics on the passenger door and go step by step, as soon as i have time freed up.

I had a hard time backing over a softball that happend to roll under toby in the garage yesterday... it got stuck under my pan.. I thought something was binding up , I guess im sitting a little low

59suicide wrote:I guess im sitting a little low

not possible

DiscoSquirrel wrote:

59suicide wrote:I guess im sitting a little low

not possible

I think i need to go a little lower so next time the softball will not be able to roll under toby just bump into him

Now that's what I'm talking about

Ok Im looking for a good transaxle rebuild for a swing that is reliable and good priced of course, anybody have any suggetions. I figured if I'm rebuilding this engine then its a good time to get the trans upgraded, anything would be greatful

The next day after what it is I believe to be a spun bearing... me and my old sailor friend, whom has a blue super beetle, had a small adventure which included his whole family. First attempt was me had Bill and his older boy driving the super beetle down to the crime scene where Toby spent the night to see if it were the alternator that seized up, well his bug decided to break down, after we found out the truth of Toby's fate. We troubleshot for a while, which consisted of turning the key until the battery almost died, then ding ding a light bulb... "Bill I bet its the fuel filter," "No man I think the fuel pump took a $#it," "Bill your thinking in the service department mindset, your not working on a commission here, this is not Big 10 Tires," we both laugh... me being me i go for the easiest thing first, well one less fuel filter on Toby later bills 'ol super fired right up... the whole while his wife was on the way with the truck and trailer, she got there right when we had the super running again. To get Toby on this trailer his two boys him and his wife all pushed while I lifted the front, its only 2 inches of the ground. I bet it was entertaining to see two bugs with the deck lids open on the side of the road Well enough said, some pics of the bug on a one axle trailer Good thing Toby quit only a couple miles from the house on a 60 mile round trip





Where Toby sits for the next couple months, hopefully less with my new found $2500 budget

First purchase of many, dual 44idf webers hand polished intakes $500 shipped :Rockit: Just a taste of what my engine will consist of <---- guess what size my engine will be and you win, the winner will be announced when I start it for the first time and broadcast it live on youtube