Category: How To

  • New Exhaust Installation Part IV

    Before I put on the new exhaust, I decided to replace the intake seals to the heads that I didn’t replace year before last when I installed the new intake. Just loosing the intake does not give me enough room to install the seals, so I start by removing the fuel pump, distributor cap, generator…

  • VW Badge LED Shadow Box

    Colby got me a VW LED hood badge that is meant to replace the front badge on new VW Beetles. You can pick these up at Amazon for around 20 dollars. We decided that it’d look really cool if we displayed it in a shadow box. Lenora picked up a shadow box at Hobby Lobby on…

  • New Exhaust Installation Part III

    Continued to prep for the new exhaust installation. Not a whole lot more we can do until the new exhaust arrives. Today, I decided to clean up the rear engine tins to make them look a bit better. I started by stripping the paint off the tins by using Dupli-Color paint stripper. I let them…

  • New Exhaust Installation Part II

    Not a big update for part 2 of the new exhaust installation. I’m still awaiting word from CIP1.com that the new exhaust has shipped. I decided to go ahead and remove the existing exhaust. Since I had already broken loose the nuts that secure the muffler to the head, all that I had left to…

  • Aussie Trim

    (Originally posted April 2018) I’ve been wanting to do this project for a while, just never got around to it. I’ve always been a fan of the Australian trim on the vintage Beetles and I wanted to try and replicate it the best I could with my own spin. The idea was to use reworked…