The last "meal"

Looking scared at the butchers knife, waiting for a ralatively painful death, the 65 ran it's last run on the "track" the other night. Some Outlavws action went down in "Paradise garden" a late night in the middle of the week. The car seemed very happy as it performed like never before.... Both Custom-boys and Vintage-nuts had a huge grin on their face, I wonder why =)

Now it's vital organs are donated to "split" parts... more to come

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAFgbRfL9M

The entry of the Ambassador in the workshop!

Splitboy and Oval57 got a whole day with the old german metal. We did weld on his 50`project before we pushed in the Ambassador. We could not leave before we had put the grinder and the welder into the old rusty metal. It was fun! This week we are going to replace a new heaterchannel at the right side.

Inspiration from a 50 split

This site is a MUST to visit. Especially if you are restoring a early beetle. This tin work is absolutely amazing. The detailed pictures have actually helped the welding of our projects as well, seeing all steps to a perfect result. It all look so easy, but there is many hours behind every picture. We take off our hats in respect for this man and his split beetle...

It's funny to see that this also is a swedish car =)

http://picasaweb.google.com/50split

(The picture is borrowed from the site)

The rarest of the rare??

Sniffing around the greatest VW market in the world like a horny foxhound, can wear out the strongest among us. Never would we believe that the king of swapmeets could run out of batteries. But the combination of marathon searching and the satisfaction of scoring big, put mr. "dubbel-ribbed" in coma when we drove off from BC. It's never far between top and bottom...

Bad Camberg 07

Finally the day came and we could head for the famous German VW Meeting. We went for a little "luxury" this time and travelled by plane and slept in a nice hotel. The market was as good as expected, and the prices of course higher than anyone could dream about. Just the way we like it =) Some nice parts found their way home to Norway, though some of us had a struggle getting them through security at the airport.... All in all a perfect weekend for VW nuts like us. We will try to post some pictures of our highlights of the weekend. We will be back!!

Savannah 65

Not finnished packing out from Bug Run, the outlavws jumps into another project, just hours before taking off to Bad Camberg. After a ad on vw2you, Splitboy and Knechten went to collect a 1965, former Norwegian "looker". The car has a somehow interesting story, as it was one of the early "old school" lookers on the norwegian scene. The car was bought with the intensions of parting it up, to give fresh parts for a 50 and 52 split. Amazingly the car fired right up, and we drove it all the way "home". The car actually ran so good, we have second thoughts on the slaughtering process..... First thing was getting rid of the bumpers, and with a set of correct wheels, this car would look good instantly... More to come...

Better next year???

The Norwegian VW-society had this year gathered for a joined camping during Bug Run 07.

This worked out well, but somehow a swedish bay window bus packed with fourteeners manage to squeeze in among the norwegians. This was not popular, and playing music all night at a desibel level that no one could talk to each other, made for some physical action. The bay window bus with FJZ*** plates a hereby BANNED by the 6V Outlavws. Next year it may be family-camping at Mantorp for us. We like the VW part of BUG RUN, not the rave-party side... Too bad it's turning in this direction...

PS! We are NOT against drinking beer and playing music, just done within reason...

Mantorp 2007

As always packed with awsome cars and happy people in a special blend....

Mantorp 2007

The boys are back in town.... After a very hot, very nice weekend in Sweden. This time with no problems to the cars what so ever =) a short summary of a perfect weekend could be something like this; good weather, having a few beers, selling parts in front of the tent, talking VW with strangers, finding good and rare parts at the market, seeing naked Finns, no sleeping in a overheated tent, seeing that all the "special" cars had finnish or danish plates this year as well, sitting 15-20 hours in a vintage VW, driving "Outlavw" on the speedtrack at night.....

We will be back =)

There is always a reason

And the clutch problem was not so very complicated after all. The sixvolt crew had a smack in the face once again, trusting the ancient 6 volt system on their beetles. Using a 6 volt flywheel on a "new" engine with o-ring seal on the crank, is not always success. In this case oil had squeezed in between the iside of the flywheel and onto the clutchdisc. resulting in a slipping and overheated clutch. The disc shown in the picture could easily be picked apart with the fingers. The pressure plate was all gone and could be squeezed togheter by man force... That was not right. Everything was cleaned up, and sealer was added to the flywheel and nut, and a fresh clutch disc and a "new" pressureplate were put in place. Engine was installed once again, and the acclerator pump on the carburator cleaned... AGAIN (some idiot used liquid sealer instead of gaskets on the carburator at some point) The result; two lovely skidmarks out of the garage and on to the gravel.... What a differense =)

Old trick

If this is a well used trick from back in the days is hard to say. But certainly they had some problems with the 180 mm 6v clutch back then as well. To stand the spanking from the Kvikk engine, the clutch has to be improved in some way. Monday the old trick found in grandads toolbox going to be tested in the outlavw mansion. Hopefully we can report long skidmarks in the gravel =)

Hungry for gravel

This period styled rallye car is starting to look like it used to be driven this way. It is certainly coming together now and the premiere run to Mantorp should be possible. So we thought.... After some local dragracing against the 356 engined Jungle green Oval, the clutch started slipping big-time. It seem to be no other way to sort this out, than to rip the engine out of the car again.

The engine making trouble for the clutch is a engine built by Kvikk Service in Norway, and is based on a singelport 1300 F engine. The only visible proof that the engine is modified are a 8 doweld crank, and some ported heads. The compression also seem to be higher than standard. A 30 PICT carburator with more flow throught it than standard, combined with a displacement of approx. 1750 ccm, makes the whole thing exiting. The package looks pure stock, but after testing against the 356 engine, the power output should be somwhere between 70-80 horsepower at least. The final results to compare will be easier with a functional clutch.

It is one week to Mantorp, and monday evening is reserved for clutch trobleshooting.... the best of luck Fürsten.

No one can argue that the look of the 53 oval in rallye clothing, and the angry retro-engine is a great combo... Pure driving joy =)

Bend it like a race-car?

What`s happening?

What are Knechten and Splitboy doing?

It seems like they are destroying an exhaust-thing?

In the end of the night, a new exhaust was put in place, and the neigbouhrs will hate him/us.

Electrolux gives an old VW the ultimate touch!

Just look at this picture? When we bougth a new "foodprocessor" in the kitchen, my grandmothers old went out. I did throw everyting except for the aluminium top. I think it did look like something else.......

Shell Momarken in the winter

waiting for the old aircooled VW` in june heading for BugRun!It is soon time for the big happenig in the year for all us VW-nuts.Nine o`clock we will be there friday 8. of june 2007.53 oval, 56 oval and a 57 oval. This year we have a co-pilot without a driving car. See his own project-pages, 52 Zwitter. But next year we have at least 1 split-window in our group

Let the fun begin

Spy shot

It may look like the Outlavws garage has closed down these days, but that is not the case. The spring-horny guys are too involved in their projects to update the blog. This weekend a couple of the projects saw the first sunrays this year. One of the projects is nearly complete, but the little bastard out back is not willing to play along so far. Turning the the monster with only 6 volt at hand, can seem to be a setback for the Outlavws. We hope for more details....

Petri Pealit

 

Doesn't this look cozy?

I found this great add in a Gute Fahrt magazine from 1959
Who needs a hotelroom when you can have this?

Little bastard

Knechten and Fürsten bought this piece of norwegian VW-history last year. They didn't know much about it then, but 
yesterday they finally got some hours free too find out. 
8 dowelled flywheel was found behind the clutch, and after
it had swallowed some gas it was brought back to life again.
I can asure you -it was teardropping to hear a flat four after
a long winter of welding