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Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:08 pm
by 911hillclimber
No wonder you are getting excited!
Looks great.
Lead loading is easy, you must have the right materials, watch a few vids on Youube and be patient doing it.
All a simple balance of heat and getting 'into the zone' of the tinning, solid/melt/malleable/too hot of the solder.
A very clean surface is required to start, and buy a millenicut file or two, normal files will choke instantly.
Buy a proper lead loading kit, lot at the Classic Restoration show in November.
I did the rear wings on a friends V12 E Type rebuild in the 70's as my first attempt!
https://youtu.be/Zoy7XD8h4n4
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:41 pm
by KS
Looking good!
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 1:21 pm
by greg356a
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 1:58 pm
by greg356a
KG back today. First job is to get the body onto the 4 post and then start fitting out the chassis components
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Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:46 pm
by greg356a
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:46 am
by sladey
Nice work!!
Have you seen Edd China doing the same thing to a Range Rover on youtube last Friday ?
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:49 am
by Bootsy
You're a fast mover!
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:19 pm
by greg356a
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:02 am
by greg356a
I think this is quite a rare parts find, cant be many of these around. Its from a 1962 car. Should make for a very seamless fit. The great thing is that the fresh air levers on the bottom right have side will be correct, also has the matching brackets on the back to operate down the left hand side. I will get it media blasted and weld through primed.
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I guess you have to buy stuff when its available, may not be able to fit it for a few weeks/ months. This still works out better, cheaper than starting with an original (very rusty) RHD car.
Result!
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:24 am
by RobFrost
I saw a body for sale circa £3k iirc, I assume not of interest as you have one?
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:59 pm
by 911hillclimber
Great find.
Looks like a very diy dash top cover. Are real ones really hard to find?
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 5:14 pm
by greg356a
KG's really suffer from severe rust, finding anything in UK which can be used is quite hard. I guess 60 years ago VW's did not use any form of zinc galvanising or metal protection. On the UK cars there was no metal eyebrow above the instruments, they used a padded dash to achieve the raised look, cheaper than a metal pressing just for RHD. Looks like the padding is held down with diy wood screws. This can be easily fixed.
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:28 pm
by greg356a
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:11 pm
by Bruce M
The chassis level is in front of the gearstick mount. A small rectangular flat section on the tunnel. Not always that flat however.
Also… here’s the underneath of a Salzburg rally beetle, which used a 901 gearbox.
Re: House of Karmann
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:28 pm
by Nine One One
The gearbox rubber mounts on that Beetle look like Porsche 912 engine mounts??