Phoenix Gold Phorum

..because this has been taking all my spare time up

http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/ipb/index.ph ... k-project/

I still have a scan through and keep up to date but my mind is focused on this project and hope to have it on the road for summer time

Love that project

As an incidental I work for an industrial coatings company by day Mark,

We do plastic media stripping (takes paint from a coke can without substrate damage) as well as the usual garnet, chilled iron and steel shot blasting (SA 2,2.5 and so on). If you need owt cleaning up

We spray wet paint also, thicker than automotive coatings (airless) but I know you have experience and an even more experienced buddy in the painting field already

Nice work so far, I hope there's a little system planned for in there too

Jon

most definitely a small system planned!! haven't decided on kit list yet but it's looking like a Nak cd700 headunit and Zapco processing for starters!

Mark.

good stuff man thats alot of work!

marko wrote:most definitely a small system planned!! haven't decided on kit list yet but it's looking like a Nak cd700 headunit and Zapco processing for starters!

Mark.

Oh bringing out the big guns, nice

Nice clean sound then...


...maybe a Colossus and 4 x 15's in the back

not decided on amps yet, thought maybe Soundstream class A's ran balanced from Zapco stuff, dunno.. I'll worry about that when I have an MOT on the car!!

man that make me want my 61 ghia and 68bettle back
very very nice work

I've been lucky enough to see this in the flesh. It's looking great and is going to be something special when finished

paintguy wrote:I've been lucky enough to see this in the flesh. It's looking great and is going to be something special when finished

It's not moving forward as fast as I'd like right now, I'm missing some special bolts that are hard to find I just polished the front panel with my £5 special polisher and have to say it looks nice just polished the wing on my A4 and noticed I got some water marks in the top (damn English weather ), I'm scared to polish too much as I don't want to screw it up..

Little milky patches?

Try wafting a heat gun over them. Doesn't always work, but worth a try

paintguy wrote:Little milky patches?

Try wafting a heat gun over them. Doesn't always work, but worth a try

no, more like silicone marks but I know they are from water drips! might get some 1200 and lightly polish by hand, it had 3 coats of lacquer so should be OK.

thought you guys might want to see where I'm up to with this project, still missing a few parts that a proving very challenging to source but getting there!

looks good!!! i would of gone crazy dealing with the project..

Although I don't drive one, I am a huge air cooled VW fan. I have a 68 beetle, soon a 69 also. I recently finished wiring a 2.5 Subaru in a 64 beetle and that thing is so fast with a stock 2.5, it almost belongs in there. Having modern A/C and heat doesn't hurt either, hehehe...

This and the notch back (wagon looking one) are awesome, but I'd prefer the bus with all the windows and the V front (60's) I believe...


Hello from my IPad!

Awesome looking car! Great job on it.

this is where it's up to, just needs final tweeking here and there and a road worth test (MOT as we call it over here) then I can drive it!

very nice work Marko .. where's the PG install?

itchnertamatoa wrote:very nice work Marko .. where's the PG install?

it doesn't have an install yet but I plan to fit one (think I have enough amps spare ), not sure what kit to fit yet but it will be an analogue orientated for sure

Ooooh shes a beauty, awesome work I love it, would love it even more on air and rims

she's a 'bute clark!

OK, here's where I'm up to with the audio install, PG Ti1 head-unit into a pair of Rockford amps, 225.2 bridged on a Diamond 10" sub and 160.4 bridged to 2 channel on a pair of KEF 8" uni-q's, simple as that at the moment! amps color coded with chrome link and end bells to run with the theme of the car.




I used a bit of braided hose to hide the RCA and power cables for head-unit. don't think I've ever had such a solid fitting head-unit in any car! I made the cradle out of 18mm MDF










waiting for trim to arrive..

amp rack for rear shelf





old school PG blocks!





rear trunk all finished off now, I used some spare carpet to finish the the rear of the sub box off and hand stitched the edging back on! that took ages as I don't have a sewing machine!



amp trim surround trimmed in head-lining material to match interior. not very stealth but I plan to make a cover for it and it's always garaged anwyay so out of site..

very nice although I would have faced the sub back myself.

I didn't want it facing back as it would have not looked right for me and it works OK as is too which is a bonus.

also, because I only had 10" of depth to play with mounting it on an angle gave me a little more. it would have been very tight on the rear of the enclosure!

very nice indeed!