Ella - The 1985 Mexican Bandit

the chap i got it off lived in nottingham, he said he bought a beetle of Al from weston super mare , so it could ether be Big Al Or scoops or some random Al in weston selling there bug

Was his name James??
He bought my Karmann Cabrio.

yes it is james ! just checked my message on vzi, his name is sambaboy66 on vzi,

That's him. He has a Samba as well as my old roofless Bug.

its a small world hey !

your not going to get much sleep tonight with that are you

i have actually got so much work done today ,

firstly a small touch to the tyres i thought mite look kool,







and thats its for today's work ,

just get on with that exhaust and stop playing with tip-ex!!!!

got the zasut fitted, the j tubes and header bit went on fine just having a few teathing problems with the mufflers, Nomates mite know but in the kit you get these to 2 metal collor things , were do they go LOL, apart from that looks ace, no pics as phone ran put of batterys , sounds ncieand cant hear it missing anymore but it will be back for sure, just need to sort out the mufflers, new accelerator cable, tidy wiring, fit swivel adjusters on rocker+new seals , then it will be ready for Chris to do his magic wednesday onwards, cant wait, Chris is doing the OS rear hub seal for me, relocating oil cooler, new oil lines, and setting up / tuning and sorting misfire out, Cant wait when i spoke to him last he sed we were going to keep the 28 mm vents to give more lower down power and sacrifice a bit of top end, ,

Collars? ......got any pics?

one sec ill go get some , 5 mins

this above is the metal coller thing and there is 2 of them ,

weld on pipe extenders, quite common on quality exhausts.


andy

these are pipe extenders ,that you weld on ...don't think I got any with mine tho'

bummer ...too slow

so i dont need to put this on mine then, few thank god for that, i thought i had missed out a vital part , cheers Andy & Nomates

few ......is spelt phew by the way .....no worries

oh ye Phew >

just notice in the last pic i think the silence mite be tocuhing the mounty thing on the inner wing , hmmmmm

give us a pic of the tail pipes ,,,,straight on from the back of the car dude

aint got one of those at mo buddy, the left hand side is fine tail pipe, its the right hand one is is to much to the left, it look like the silencer is touching in the last pics so it mite be that holding it up, the exhast sits quite close the rear brake calipers though ! about an inch or so gap,

looking good mate!

just gotta get it tuned and running on the road ready for the meet on the 13th!

WizBizMartin wrote:

aint got one of those at mo buddy, the left hand side is fine tail pipe, its the right hand one is is to much to the left, it look like the silencer is touching in the last pics so it mite be that holding it up, the exhast sits quite close the rear brake calipers though ! about an inch or so gap,

thats plenty of space, as the heat is drawn towaords the rear when going foward.

the mex'y bracket looks like you may have to remove this.

i can't remember what they are for as i had one on my mexy bug years ago.


andy

i dont think it touching on the other side so one side is not right , if i needs to be removed ill get the grinder out !!! goes in this week ether wednesday thurdsay or friday still waiting for confirmation ,