'90 Cabrio Karmann

Am searching for a new OG VW logoed front green tinted windscreen

Will buy a NOS front windscreen seal as well

The repro seal and windscreen are letting in water so badly that under heavy rain a leak in the fuse box keeps the wipers going even if I switch them off..

My finished badges with my own repro badge refurbish decal set will be put on on Wednesday

BerT3

The end result

Decided to not install the other badges since I like symmetry

Photof the flattened 5 speed shifter relay which made it sometimes difficult to shift down from 3 to 2 and from 5 to 4

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Liking the badge symmetry!!  

The windscreen will be replaced next week

I really wanted to find an OG green tinted one with white VW stamp but after hunting for a couple of weeks and contacting over 10 sources I decided to fit a good quality repro one

Escpecially after I had a stone chip yesterday from a small rock on the highway

The car leaks from under the windscreen seal and has some rust bubbles under the paint as a result - that area will be resprayed and the windscreen fitted with a NOS seal

I really wanted to cover this before I put in the new second hand carpet

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The window is out - found an OG one

Found some rust under there - will be patched - sealed and repainted

Bought a NOS rear vieuw mirror to replace the glued on generic one

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Always a shock what you can find lurking under rubbers and trim!

Got the car back from the body shop

Had to weld in new material - repaint the entire wiper area

Found an OG window in The Netherlands

Installed with a NOS window seal and a NOS rear view mirror from France

New is replacing the smelly and leaky interior heater

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Bought some wheels for the winter

Golf 3 rims with trim rings and caps

6 x 15" ET45 with Continental Wintersport tires

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Next on the list - clean and change out the heater matrix

Luckily I had a spare one which will be cleaned and assembled together with the new heater matrix

BTW can I get it from under there whithout taking the dash out ?

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Changed the air filter setup

Cut of a small part of the remaining part where the hot exhaust air mixes with the cold intake air

Used a Polo 86C air intake tube - heated it up - stretched it over a coca cola can and pushed it oval and over the remaining oval part of the OG air filter housing

Even managed to use the OG clip and screw of the Polo part

Note that the hot air shield over the exhaust manifold was already removed

All done to get as cold air in a possible for the slightly hotter running engine on LPG

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How did you do the badges? They look brilliant.

Bought me this set on Ebay

No idea of I will use them but for the amount I paid I cant refurbish them myself

BBS RA 15x6" ET 35 with polished lips and repainted webs

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Finished the interior heater last weekend

Split it open - cleaned it all out - removed all seals - put in new foam

Installed the new heater core - NOS tubes - NOS go through the bulhead grommet and some spare OG blue clipses I had from another heater core

Quite a PITA to install but with a little bit of patience everything went in fine

Now I do have a ver good working unit that doesn't smell when heated and doesn't leak

For future reference - those NOS OG VW hoses are just rebranded Gates hoses !

BerT3

Great looking cabby!
Nice to see an other 'Belg' on there  

I also installed a NOS gas cable cable grommet since the cable was attached with zip ties

No idea what the PO was thinking…

On the other hand I found a solution of my very slightly dancing idle

To accomodate with the LPG setup the breather inlet tube at the air filter was closed up and the tube rerouted with a generic oil hose to a hole in the side of the air filter

Since the engine now breathed in front of the K&N air filter it got very oily

The rotation pulses of the engines with hot oily air mixed up with cold fresh intake air kept the idle slightly unsteady

I plugged the hole that was made and rerouted the oil hose to the ground

Now I do have a very and correct idle !

I ordered a Moroso oil beather catch can to collect the evapoured oil

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Made me a bracket for the oil breather

Rerouted the breather line - replaced the water lines for the LPG evapourater as well

Some photos

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Had a quick look on how the OG BBS RA 15" suit the car

Quite like it BerT3


 

Finally took the time to change out the carpet

Removed the old one which had several holes - cigarette burns etc.

Vaccuum cleaned all dirt - found some old coins from before the Euro

Used new under sound deadening from VW Heritage

Reused all correct clipses - the round ones I had NOS

Everything went in just fine

The Corrado tillable seats are a PITA to get in though

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Did some tinkering with that carburetor last weekend

Finally getting there to the point it drives like a newisch car

Ordered some spare and missing parts to keep it al OG under that bonnet

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Good progress going on in here if your still running the perburg then it will need a bit of tinkering to get right