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 July 2012

Finishing up the floorpan

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This week I'm finally finishing up the structural floorpan work. First thing to do was to weld up the holes used for the Cleco pins. A...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

Welding the left pan half

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Today was spent welding in the second pan half. As before this was plug welded and the edge of the pan dressed as I went along. Just ...
Sunday, 15 July 2012

Back to it

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Got a gas bottle refill yesterday so back to work... After making sure I had both front and rear axles completely level I started plug wel...
Sunday, 8 July 2012

Rain stops play

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Well,  not rain really but lack of welding gas. I'd been getting low for a while and hoped to go get a refill Yesterday. Unfortunately, ...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Preparing the second pan half

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With the first pan half located and ready for welding it was time to fit the second. With it roughly laid in place it was clear that it need...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

Finishing up the chassis spine and starting the pan halves

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Quite a bit done today... First up was finishing off cleaning and priming the underside of the frame horns and rear torsion bar housing. ...
Sunday, 17 June 2012

Welding in the cover tabs

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Well, over the week I managed to get a new supply of mig wire, although my gas bottle is now running very low! Despite this I thought I'...
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