PiL's VW- The building of a Beetle race car

This is the build of my replacement race car. I crashed in the original car after a blown rear tyre and just two (and a half!) runs in it. I hope to update weekly even if I've only made a small amount of progress. Drop back and see how it's going.

Sunday, 29 April 2012

Fabricating the cover mounts

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This week is about making the tabs for the cover mounts. Started off with some Camloc products. I thought I'd need seven but, after ha...
Sunday, 22 April 2012

Finishing the second cover

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With the lip panel made up it was time to trim the centre, in the same way as I did with the first cover. Just making sure everything li...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

Trimming the cover and fabricating the lip

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Cover is finally trimmed to size. This was done by removing very small amounts of material then "trying for size" a number of time...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

Aligning and sizing the cover

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This week is all about aligning and sizing the cover panel. First though I needed to do the final trimming of the chassis spine hole so I kn...
Sunday, 1 April 2012

Continuing the second cover

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This week continues the fabrication of the second chassis spine cover. Firstly the paint was cleaned off and all dents marked. Dent remo...
Sunday, 25 March 2012

Finishing the first cover and starting the second

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Not a massive amount done this time as I have a business trip to Spain that cuts short my weekend! Final welding of the first cover. This ...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

...and more

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Continuing with the cover, the ribbing on the original panel was marked onto the new sheet metal. Cutting out the excess sheet metal and...
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