1980 B1 Passat Project

[DubSteve]

Congratulations Peter, good to hear you another registered and tearing up the street

[Jace]

Congratulations! Awesome work.

[Peter Jones]

Random photo of the day..

[Preen59]

So cool mate. I hope you're proud of that car. You should be!


.... Oh and the Passat isn't too bad either.

[Peter Jones]

The Passat certainly gets some strange looks on the street.

When people see the car they get this puzzled look on their face, then they spot the VW on the grill and look even more puzzled!

The Dasher badge on the back just about makes their heads explode

[DubSteve]

Haha good stuff Pete, brilliant looking car

[thestu]

great work pete!!!! fantastic job!

can't wait to get my licence back to come over for a visit

Stu

[Peter Jones]

Time to up the volume!

[Golf Loon]

Love your work Pete. Go the Air Horns.

[Peter Jones]

Spent most of the day stuffing about with speaker mountings.

The parcel shelf had been butchered by a previous owner so I re-used the holes as best I could.

That area of the deck isn't flat so I had to do some not so high-tech carving of MDF to make up some spacers.

The car is to be re trimmed own the track, I'll probably rethink this approach.

I sealed the spacers down with silastic but stuck duct tape down prior so it'll be easy to remove.

Speakers are fastened to the deck with M4 nutserts.



Temporary carpet back in place. Grills will go on the speakers when the final trim has been done.



Air supply for the horn mounted up neatly out of the way behind the left hand tail light.



Just visible behind the grill

[lawny]

mate.. that horn must make a crap load of noise with that air compressor. what you have done with the speakers looks tops in the pictures, not bad for a quick job!

[Jarred]

Great to hear Franks finally registered Pete! well done! defiantely an amazing transformation!

can't wait to hear the air horns either!

[DubSteve]

Haha that air tank is nuts!!! Is it necessary to be that big or is it just cause you can?

[Peter Jones]

Haha that air tank is nuts!!! Is it necessary to be that big or is it just cause you can?

It's what I had lying about Plus you need more than one toot between refills. Hardest bit is to stop these systems gradually loosing pressure.

@ 100 - 150psi these horns are louder than suburban trains.

[greasykitchen]

Looking good, and that horn is a piece of work.

I still you've got the fuel filter between the pump and the carby. I thought this was a bit of a no-no?