Well its that time of year again when we huddle in our garages and wrench like mad on our old German steel. I'm restoring a 74 standard beetle for Autocross & eventually if my skills improve SCCA and vintage rallys.
My winter project is to restore the chassis. Over the holidays I dissassembled, cleaned and prepped the chassis. I welded in new pans from WolfsburgWest and painted the entire thing with Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator. I then seam sealed the chassis. My next steps are to paint a second coat of Rust encapsulator then paint the chassis with Eastwoods Chassis black topcoat.
As for the suspension I have most of my road hugging upgrades on the work bench awaiting installation:
1. SwayAway adjustable spring plates
2. Koni Adjustables Front and Rear (RED Specials)
3. Whiteline 20mm adjustable front swaybar
4. Whiteline 20mm non-adjustable rear swaybar
5. New TRW steering box
6. Prothane Urethane Bushings in front beam and IRS arms.
See the pics below:
Before:
After:
