Topic: New From Uk

[petervw]

Elpassata is just his nickname. For me they're Bernie&Leepu

[jetta16v]

london garage rules 

[Moses35i]

It's good to see you coming back again!

Edit:
I changed your language-selection to English, makes more sense

[elpassata]

How could i forget, just need how to get my pc to translate complete pages at a press of a button
, old pc did.

I was adapting a VW bay window bus dashboard to fit in my car, bus dash is about is about 150mm longer but once you chop a little out of each end the top actually fits nice around the bottom on the screen and it's just a case of making it wider to bring the dash further forward and adjusting the angle of the front of the dash. The actual B3 clocks will sit where the bus ones did and could have been covered up with the glove box lid.

All this changed when I removed the old wings, this mad idea came to my head that if the wings were welded together they would make a good front for a dash and I would then have the bodywork swage line on the inside of the car. Lines in the bonnet carry on in to the dash as well using another bonnet for the top of the dash, except the bonnet used is from a Ford as the lines fade out better, plus it was laying around. Now have a cable made up to connect the Volvo speedo but the speedo which is VDO needs recalibrating badly  100km's VW = about 170kms Volvo. I have also lengthened the cluster loom so I can hide up the original cluster when i want to.

[Moses35i]

I moved your topic to the Projects section. I hope you don't mind

[35i-cruiser]

All this changed when I removed the old wings, this mad idea came to my head that if the wings were welded together they would make a good front for a dash and I would then have the bodywork swage line on the inside of the car.

If you haven't said it, I've would never made the connection 

[elpassata]

Picked the door cards up to day and picked out Material I'm now going to use for a headlining
Anyway here's the cards, hope you like, I do




While at the upholsterers I was offered a bit of advice for when I tackle the headlining. Changing from the first one I have done as it's going to be a different colour, but hey the daily's blue so it can go in that. Advice was not to use spray glue, use a good contact adhesive but more importantly to seal the roof panel after you have removed the original material. I was shown a tin of wooden/cork floor sealer you can buy from any DIY store etc and advised to give the panel at least a couple of coats of that

[jetta16v]

very nice ...again 

[bulldogs cabrio]

Nice job 

[35i-cruiser]

Could I have a branch of your money tree? 

Nice solution for the window lever gaps and thnx for the head lining tip, the vr6 I temporarely have, has the same problem.

[elpassata]

Tweeters are fitted further forward and the window winder holes have been filled

Went over to my mates yesterday to some more work but my mate had a car in the spray both ready for painting and another that need some priming in the work shop so I could not get on so I went home to work on my other Passat, build thread coming. Anyway took a few pics while there


still need to fabricate the top of the dash around the speedo

Reworked the top of the bottom half of the hatch so it will look a bit neater when it's finished

[RonnieSterile]

Love this project en very nice door panels...

Keep up the good work...

[JPstyle]

Great project, Hope the ending is just as good as the idea 

[elpassata]

Great project, Hope the ending is just as good as the idea 

me, ik heb dit beeld in mijn hoofd

[elpassata]

Not much to report on the van except the dash is staring to get there and should be in primer reasonable soon as should the rest of the thing.

How ever the daily got treated to some used coilies and I made use of the good weather today