VolksRod Coupe "Macht Nichts"

[MadMike]

Bullet tail lites & turn signals,Now where to mount the plate?

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[rochester73super]

Looks awesome ? Do the lights really work or is that the reflection from the flash ;D

[MadMike]

Ha ha, Hey It's considered 'Mostly'Legal in some states ;DPlus at Least it Runs&Drives(stick out tongue) ;D ;D ;D

[MadMike]

Installed the front turn signals,just a cpl small clearance lites from Wally world ;D Thinking about getting a sticker made up,"This Car is Legal in Most 3rd World Countrys" ;D ;D ;D ;D

[MadMike]

Front turn signals ,and they work!! ;D

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[MadMike]

We got 12" of snow yesterday When most of our snow was melted except some patches in the woods ;D,so I stay in and painted the calipers red ;D

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[MadMike]

I've been Driving M N since the 1st and still need to tweek the front end(Kind of twitchy steering) got to get the speedo checked too still a blast to scoot aronud in ;D

[81pumagtc]

Oh, I LOVE twitchy cars, especially rear-engine VWs.

Tiny steering wheels make it even better...and wide tires...oh la la! I am not certain M.N. would be very much fun on a fast, bumpy road.

Are you running the spacers for the beams? They work, but they really make the steering heavy.


Dave Riedle

P.S. Wait until you get heavy crosswinds a twitchy car...I think I got religion really quick with one...and the RAIN! ;D

[MadMike]

Dave U crack me up,cuz u can relate I guess, ;D Yep installed the Caster shims and has about 1/2 of toe in and still twichy ???Going to "The Rack" next ;D

[81pumagtc]

Mike:

The Pig of Plastic is a little twitchy, but not bad.

Crosswinds...well, they make life little more exciting. Overall, it's quite good, but I run a Sway-a-Way camber stop, forged drop spindles, KYB gas shocks on the Puma, so it is not close to stock. Steering is a bit heavy because of the wide 14 inch tires and low tire pressures. Overall, it can be driven hard, even with the short wheelbase, and you can get a good rhythm going and make very good time.

Rain, however, is VERY exciting. You can not drive 70 MPH in a heavy rain. It's under 1500 pounds, and the first Good Volks show I ever went to was in Holland in several hours of heavy rain.

Various parts of my anatomy crawled into places I did not even know that were available inside my body...

Pucker factor was VERY high.

50 to 55 MPH is as fast as anyone would ever want to go...and heavy rain in high winds can become a religious experience very, very quickly.

That is NOT in a good way either.

Oh my GOD, HOLY $H!T, and things kind of like that just come out of your mouth ALL BY THEMSELVES!


Dave Riedle

[MadMike]

No pucker factor ;D Although most roads here in 'Hazzard" are one big bump Turns out It must of settled because I started out with 1/4" toe in and when I checked it it had way more re-adjusted and now it's way Mo'better ;D ;D ;D I may try driving in the rain today, just to see how it handles

[MadMike]

Well Volks,It's be a while since I've updated this tread,I'logged a bunch of miles and installed some wornout Gene Berg linkage for the IDF's (ran better with the wornout HexBar ;D) Had my future Daughter-in-Law do some lettering on my DeckLid and in the processe of having some mounts Fabbed up,I couldn't use hinges with the dual carbs,Debut at Yipsi 8-if all goes well ;D ;D ;D,Madmike

[MadMike]

I added a cheap O'l Berg pully too ;D ;D

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[MadMike]

Well Volks, It made it's VW Debute at the MVVF in Yipsi yesterday(It Won the Veterans Choise trophy@ RogerCity Show the day before ;D) The deck lid I've been waiting on allllll spring was finally painted and mounted ;D So can I safely say it's the last piece of the puzzle? we'll see ;D ;D ;D Thanks,Madmike

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[MadMike]

For Sale Make me an offer ;)I could not get pix to load so I just bumped this thread