Spa 2010

Good times at Spa once again!

Italy and Volksdub

Last week the rag took the Best of Rat Award at the Volksdub event. Pretty cool!

Next week (right after SPA bugshow) a trip to Italy: 2500 km's in my ratlook ragtop. Therefore I replaced all the airlines, throtle cable and a new clutch... I really hope we're gonna make it without any brakedowns(knock on wood!)

Praise the lower.....slammed!

Amen to this brother, Haleluja!

Budel Debut!

It was a close call but the 58 made it to Budel! Just a day before we left the whole airride was in bits and pieces...But I pushed through and just kept on going, everything fitted together very nice. And the endresult is pretty spectacular if I may say so...the airride works very good, and the 1585cc engine runs great!

My boi Ralf had a stand with his business: 'Qustoms' which is specialised in airride and customization of cars and bikes. We helped him out during the weekend, and ofcourse the rag got a good spot at the stand. Pretty cool!

We had a great weekend with shitloads of good reactions, and a whole lot of friends came by to say hello!

Thanks so much everybody, the compliments were overwhelming....see you guys at SPA!!!

Last minute Scramble!

Airride for the Front!

Sold my 2'' narrowed frontbeam this monday, I want something more radical for this ride;

A 5'' beam with airride! With a friend of mine we drew the needed parts ourselves in SolidWorks, and got them lasercut.
Everything fits really nice, and now I can slam the rag whenever I want, where-ever I want. Without scraping my freshly painted pan to scheisse! Love it...

the adjusters are there just in case the air fails/leaks for some reason. Just screw the adjusterbolts in and the axle is off the ground again ---->always driveable! 

RDW Day!!!

Today was the day: RDW day. Importing my rag in the Netherlands, just a couple of days ago I had to do an engineswap because the old motor puffed out big blue clouds and sparks. It just gave up, that old D-motor, what a pussy!

So threw in another 1200 and of I was, the MOT-test was easy, it passed so Dutch plates are a fact! But the trip home was a little less amusing cause the replacement motor also gave up on me...I think it's about time to finally throw a good engine in this sucker....

To make things worse one exhaustpipe fell off this morning...sure why not!

stranded on the way home...

a glance on the finished wheels

Time to mount a GOOD motor, but, choices choices.....this:

the custom 1585cc

Or maybe this! a fresh '57 industrymotor we picked up today:

just missing the sparkbox, fuelpump and flywheel.

the motorsheetmetal even matches the bodycolor! Crazy right?!

The Flat Flatblack

Wrapped up a Cool project today: slammed and narrowed the ''76'' bug.

A fresh 3,5 inch narrowed beam, dropped spindels, the beam lays practically ON the ground, and with 2 notches in the back this flatblack cruiser will scrape the roads for sure this summer!

Stance is everything!

New tranny...

Picked up a fresh gearbox for the '58 rag, the old one makes a shitload of noise = not good. That and the fact that it was messed up anyway made me look for a new tranny.
cleaned, degreased, painted, axles swapped and built up, again a nice shitload of work nobody will ever see ;-)
Hopefully by end of the week everything back together and then to the RDW, I want to drive this MF!!!

Build-up part 2

Body on chassis with the help of some Amigo's! Wheels painted, fenders mounted and engine running...