One girl, one Beetle Ch. 2

[2low2go]

love those wheels!

[coconutt]

Awesomeness. Love these new Beetles.

[TJClover]

Photo credit: Max Krubsack



Continued...


My husband, Aaron, and I cleaned the trunk up on a Sunday. We needed something to mount hardware too. Grabbed a piece of ply wood from the hardware store and wrapped it in suede from the last build.








The tank and compressor location are boring, but it's to get us by until we get another tank setup squared away through the winter. We are hoping to have it done by Sowo.





We also put my 15mm spacers on the front wheels...it made a world of difference.






We had mostly everything wired and installed that weekend except for the gauges. Side note: my turbo did not come with the dash gauges, but it has a shallow pocket where one was supposed to be. My thinking was, "I will just order the stock gauge pod and use it for the air gauges." That would be too easy. VW doesn't like easy and I found out after I bought the pod that they make two different turbo dashes. One with a big hole in the top of the dash and one like mine. So I had to do a little "modification", which in short means destroy a $140 gauge pod or cut a large hole in the dash. I took the easy route...








Your clips are belong to me.





And a mock up of what it will look like...hopefully. My friend, Randy, reverse engineered the gauge pod here at work so the face could be waterjetted out of aluminum. That is still in the works. Undecided if I will add a third gauge or not.






What we also didn't know at the time was that it's a good idea to have adjustable end links...who would have thought? LOL! So, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we contacted Bagriders about having end links overnighted. I got really lucky that I paid them within minutes of their UPS guy showing up. They showed up at my work the next day and that night Randy installed them. It sure made the drive less noisy.





We needed to get as much done the night before Thanksgiving. We planned on traveling with our friends from Lower Class Kansas and Wetdub to the Tri-State meet in Oklahoma City. This was the first trip in the Beetle with air.

Here are some pics of the Beetle taken by Dtek.







There will be more updates soon. Thanks everyone for the kind words.

[SheaMoose]

Oh my..
It's beautiful<3

[DEADheadDOOLEY]

This looks phenomenal, I love these new beetles and you are definitely doing it very very right.

Sub'd

[99sil-teg]

Looking good, now tell Aaron to get to work on that E30 haha

[lewda]

this whip is sick, not a fan of beetles, but this one is hot! keep it up!

[TJClover]

Looking good, now tell Aaron to get to work on that E30 haha

I agree. We really need to get the wheel bearing replaced. I feel terrible...and this happens where my car gets our attention and his doesn't. I am sure in some worlds this is completely backwards. However, I love that e30, so I gotta push for it.

[valleydubs82]

Thanks Josh lol.. The e30 will get some love in the spring...

Glad to see this up on here Tara!!!

[milano_red]

I have seen very few new beetles that I like and this is one!

[DeleriousZ]

Damn I love those wheels, they really fit the car too!

[Daffy]

Those 3SDM wheels really go well with the silver accents on the black.

I also prefer how these wheels sit in the wheel-arches compared to your last bug. Looks great!

[DinanDave]

Oh Im sub'd for round 2 looking pretty sweet so far!

[TJClover]

A little update:

Got the gauge face water jetted out of titanium, but I need 90 degree fittings. It needs to be ground on a little to fit perfectly.


We also have decided to work with Standard Fabrications on a new tank setup. If you haven't checked their work out, you should! They are doing a custom setup with a paint theme we both had in mind. Very excited for that!!


A few winter mode pics:









Photo credit: Max Krubsack

[FRESH]

this thing is awesome!