The Karmann Ghia
I am glad to report that this car is finally getting under way. I recently dropped 2500 bucks into the long-block, which is at the shop now getting balanced
This is a picture of the Ghia when I bought it.
So far I have managed to buy a beetle made from about 3 different ones for parts and I scored a nice 1600 out of it which I will use for parts. I already have a 35mm filtered oil pump and a lightened flywheel(both which came with the engine) and I need to start thinking about every other little part on the car.(see projected engine spec list)
There is the stock 1200cc engine, as you know I have already done away with it!
I bought a Gas heater!!! There are many advantages to Gas heaters,
1 Heat!!
2 instant heat!!
3 warm heat!!
4 a hi-preformance header instead of heater boxes
I got the heater out of a fastback and it is like new!, and gas heaters are very rare as well.
There I am with the other minibike & VW guy, Glen
We have started to sand the car down so it can be painted. It turns out that it once had a 2-tone paint job, and it was covered up with a really crappy paint job that has allowed thousands of rock chips to be produced. I am planning to do a 2-tone paint job again, but not half roof, half body. Everyone does it like that, I am going to paint the blue that you see now along with white, but I want to show off the fender lines of the car so the white will run along the fender lines. I have only seen it done once and it looked good.
as you can see, I am getting rid of that chrome stripping on the side of the car but it is fastened by approx. 24 little holes throughout the body. We are using Bondo-Glass to fill in those holes, and are not having luck, so I have decided to weld them instead.
Projected engine spec sheet
| Engine displacment | 2165cc(78mm X 94mm) |
| pushrods | chromoly |
| Cam | Engle 100 |
| Carberator | Dual Weber 44 |
| Springs | dual hi-rev springs |
| Oil pump | full flow |
| Exhaust | 1 5/8 custom street Header |
| flywheel | lightened 8 dowel 12lb |
| case mods | case savers, 94mm, dual oil relif case, #3 welding, line-bored, case savers have been moved |
| head mods | aftermarket with deep spark plug holes, more material around combustion chamber,deep ported, polished, dual valve springs, chromoly retainers,40 X 35.5 valves, bored to 94mm |
| ignition | centrifugal advance distributor w/009 coil |
| Oil cooler | full flow external mesa oil cooler w/ filter |
| crank | counterweighted demello 78mm with chevy retainers |
| rods | eagle chevy chromoly rods, polished |
| rockers | solid shaft, stock arms, swivel feet adjusters |
| Transaxle | stock, rebuilt w/ super diff. |