After a 2 year rest, Project Spike was ressurected and then ship off to a new home.
In order to complete the sale, we needed to get the trike up and running again. Problem.
Bad gas (2 years old), bad carb, bad fuel pump, bad block venting....bad lots of stuff.
Weekend Project...woot woot!
So we swapped some parts off of RL's bug (carb and oil stand), replaced all the parts that seized up due to bad liquids.
Minor tuning and she was on the road.
Cheers!!!
Owner didn't like the look of actually seeing the source of the light in the headlight bucket.
Problem.........
Answer........remove and replace with LEDs.....DUH!
Stock bulb is in there until owner replaces with a smaller, low profile bulb that is clear and not so huge. Light perfectly fills headlight bucket, isn't too bright and is exactly what the owner was wanting.
These lights are only on when he pulls the 'light stick' out one click.....and they shut off when the headlights are turned on. His turn signals are the little cones above the headlight bucket...so purely ICE lights....
Looked sick driving away at night. Last pic is with lights on...camera made the others fairly brighter than they actually are.
On to the next one!!
Got the newly painted pods attached, mounted and wired up.
Also, temporarily mounted the new RetroSounds radio in the dash...I say temporarily, because the previous owner used a badger or beaver of some type to make the hole a bit wider and the new radio doesn't sit in flush like i should.....so the owner will be repainting everything within the next year, so once that's done, the hole will be of perfect size and it'll look even more stock than it does already.
Everything turned out great, owner is stoked and it sounds great......already have another set that needs to be made!
Cheers
Got the pods smoothed down and texture painted so they are ready for paint to match the existing wall in the bus....going to look sick in there. Already have another Bus owner that wants a set....better get them up on Samba!
Installed pics of everything will be coming up soon.
Cheers
Finally getting to my buddies VW BUS...thing is sick, so I wanted to make the VW community like these pods.....AKA....know there are speakers there but don't make them too flashy. The VW people, along with any other classic car owner, they don't want to damage the original factory panel. We're doing these under the parcel shelf and above the headlight buckets.....we're also putting a sick RetroSound deck in the dash to keep the original look, but bring modern technology to the table.
Should have these paintable in the next couple of days.
Would have had them smoother but my air hose decided to blow up on me.....awesome.
The Vanagon is back...ready to step it up in the sound department.
Removing the old, cracked 4" speakers, and putting in some 5 1/4" Memphis Audio Power Reference Component speakers.....cutting the existing door panel to put the woofer in and placing the tweeter in the stock speaker location.
I offset the tweeter inside the existing 'grill' because the speaker, from stock, is partially blocked by the dash...so this way the driver gets a clean, unblocked path from the tweeter to his ear.
Doors also got a good layer of sound deadening to help with the road noise.
Vanagon sounded MUCH better than before....next is a newer deck with hidden iPod controls and better subwoofer settings.
Here is our painters bus....getting a custom trim job done on the suspension.
It's sitting on it's brake drums right now, but when it's all said and done, it will only be 3" higher than this. We'll be redoing all the electrical work on this and possibly upgrading the lighting throughout.
Cheers!!
Our painter finally got his VW lowered and prep'd for the Safari windows.
Also, got his HIDs all wired up and they look sick!
Cheers
Been busy the last couple of days. So busy in fact that I didn't get to take pictures of the Yukon's overhead video and detached DVD player. Everything went well, and the Bluetooth/DVD player tie in perfectly with the stock system!
This morning I knocked out an amp and sub install in a 85 VW Vanagon. This was a cool install. Ze Germans were at it again with this vehicle. They made a few little extra random storage cubbies, one of which worked perfectly for hiding the Jensen amp the owner had. Then we put the Old School Rockford Fosgate subwoofer behind the drivers seat. Sounds was much better than we he had before. Next we're planning on throwing some new speakers in the doors, and possibly rears as well. Should get this little guy sounding amazing in no time! Cheers!!!
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