Now that it has been around 55°F (12.7°C) the past few days… well… at least during the day… the urge to start working outside has hit me and there has to be a few achievable goals for 2020. There’s key work that needs to be completed that was started in 2019 as well as some…
Category: Development
Żuczek 2025 – The rear pop outs!
So one of the people in the Super Beetles Only! group on Facebook shared a picture of the installation of one of his pop-out rear windows on his newly painted body and it is exactly the look I’m going for with the set I bought. They will be dechromed and painted black and top coated…
New Plans – October 2019 to the Future
So there I am, having spent the last few days still under the feeling like I had to build an engine for Yellow to sell him as a fully functional car and yet he was being purchased as a rolling project! I started going down the path of engine bearings and all kinds of other…
To flare or not to flare. That is the question.
So I love Super Beetles with slightly flared and widened fenders/wings. I love the way a wider set of slightly lowered tires sits back under them, hugging the ground and generally making the 1303 (and even the 1302’s) seem just that much more robust. I’ve looked at some of the US vendors and some of…
Possible future guages.
So I’ve been jotting down ideas for the interior, especially the dashboard and gauges for future Żuczek and I keep coming back to the Dakota Digital 1958-77 Volkswagen Beetle Digital Instruments cluster, which is more or less a drop in set of gauges and sending units. Now the only color output options are blue or teal, which…
Planning Stages – 2019 has a lot of work!
One of the things I’ve been doing on my week off is trying to work through all of the VW tasks that need to occur in 2019. The key thing to get done this winter is the rebuild of the upgraded AH case and then the basic stock AR case. Getting those done will put…
Case Mods – Sources of information I’m filing away!
So one of the things I’ve been researching are the many modifications that can be made to a Type 1 engine case’s internals. Now most of these arose out of experimentation in on the performance racing front, and of course, some of them would really not make any difference in a stockish engine, but I’m…
And there shall come a color pallet!
Now there’s one thing abut me that most people in the VW community would have no clue about and that is my past as an avid Transformers collector. For the better part of the naughts, I had a collection of 2500+ figures from 1984 and more or less stopped collecting around 2011. I had a…
So what’s the plan for Mr. Brzęczyszczykiewicz? Part 2
The car will ultimately be a hybrid style, somewhere between German Look, but less Porsche influenced and more of my own personal tastes. I foresee zero chrome, with painted bumpers to match (or be a step off) of the body color that I end up with. I’ve been all over the place from the original…
So what’s the plan for Mr. Brzęczyszczykiewicz? Part 1
The Żuczek Project is more than just a car restomod to me. It is an attempt to really delve into areas of automotive and other work that I have little to no experience in and force myself to learn a variety of new things along the way. Sure there will be things I’ll likely end up…