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Share your adventures! / Re: Official random Van pictures! Post a picture of stay out!
« on: September 28, 2016, 06:39:07 pm »
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Interior! / Dual Goal Zero Yetis under the back seat!!
« on: September 28, 2016, 06:38:25 pm »
These move with the rear bench. 
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Westfalia / Re: Westfalia Weekender aux battery, upgrades, solar, etc thread.
« on: September 28, 2016, 06:36:35 pm »
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Want to buy something? / Re: Long Nose Grille
« on: September 28, 2016, 06:33:08 pm »
How much money ya got?
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Tires and wheels! / Re: The ultimate tire and wheel guide thread!
« on: September 23, 2016, 01:48:14 pm »Oh I didn't know 17s fit. Nice van Justin, what do you roll in the winter?
Inscribed with just two thumbs...
17s fit, and even 18s and 19s. They are just increasingly hard to find load rated tires for them.
These are 17s with the same size tire Justin is running.
These are 18s with 255/45/18s
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General Discussion / 3D Printed parts sharing and development!
« on: September 20, 2016, 01:17:17 pm »
A few years ago a similar topic popped up a another classic car forum.
The community came together to develop and share files for "No Longer Available" parts and cool modified parts.
I'd love to see something similar here for the VW T4. I know that there must be some of you out there that love designing and making stuff. Let's put it to good use!
The community came together to develop and share files for "No Longer Available" parts and cool modified parts.
I'd love to see something similar here for the VW T4. I know that there must be some of you out there that love designing and making stuff. Let's put it to good use!
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Winnebago "Full Campers" / Re: Talk me out of buying a Winnebago VW VISTA
« on: August 31, 2016, 06:59:48 pm »
Life is too short to drive boring cars!
If you *want* it buy it and enjoy!
.......I didn't talk you out of it did I
If you *want* it buy it and enjoy!
.......I didn't talk you out of it did I
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Interior! / Re: Show us your stereo!
« on: August 19, 2016, 11:33:01 am »
Yeah, unfortunately that is exactly the opposite of what is needed. Its also hard to find the data about how they are shaped.
There are all sorts of applications were the reverse would work well.
There are all sorts of applications were the reverse would work well.
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Tires and wheels! / Re: The ultimate tire and wheel guide thread!
« on: August 19, 2016, 08:59:36 am »
Looks like those will work perfectly 
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Tires and wheels! / Re: The ultimate tire and wheel guide thread!
« on: August 18, 2016, 12:24:32 pm »
By increasing tires height without increasing the wheel size you tend to gain sidewall height.
Go try this experiment.
Wiggle your steering wheel and watch the front tire. You will see that the wheel actually starts to move before the contact patch on the ground moves.
The larger sidewall you have have he more disconnect you have between "trying to steer" and "actually steering"
This is most noticeable under heavy braking. The tire can road and the actions of the steering wheel have a delayed effect.
The difference between a 15-16 isn't huge. Some people will never notice.
I personally like to control as many variables when modifying things.
In this example, there is the ride height change of the suspension and the extra height of the tires. To make be those modifications work the best they can, we can minimize the sidewall flex by increasing wheel size or running even higher load rates tires.
Go try this experiment.
Wiggle your steering wheel and watch the front tire. You will see that the wheel actually starts to move before the contact patch on the ground moves.
The larger sidewall you have have he more disconnect you have between "trying to steer" and "actually steering"
This is most noticeable under heavy braking. The tire can road and the actions of the steering wheel have a delayed effect.
The difference between a 15-16 isn't huge. Some people will never notice.
I personally like to control as many variables when modifying things.
In this example, there is the ride height change of the suspension and the extra height of the tires. To make be those modifications work the best they can, we can minimize the sidewall flex by increasing wheel size or running even higher load rates tires.
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Interior! / Re: tie down mounts inside...
« on: August 17, 2016, 04:20:58 pm »
I prefer to through bolt any type of tie down. But I'm sure rivnuts would work in the right spots.
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Interior! / Re: Show us your stereo!
« on: August 16, 2016, 05:37:43 pm »Looks good Cole! Any modification to the rebar required behind that?
The ALPINE ILX-007 is very thin. But not thin enough.
I figured I had to try it and see what it really took to install one of these without the European, unicorn, double din dash bar. So this was purely an experiment.
I still had to trim about 25mm off the dash support. This is better than cutting it all the way through, but still not the most awesome solution.
This is what it looks like behind the dash stock.
You need to trim this little trim plate out.
Then I cut a 25mm deep section out of the center dash bar. Trying to leave as much of that bar intact as I could.
It's not as clean behind the scenes as I prefer.
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Show off your projects here! / Re: "Snapdragon" by CaveVan
« on: August 16, 2016, 01:09:56 pm »
Same deal with the curtains, dark on early vans and light on the late ones.
Here is an example. This is a top conversion 2003 built from 1993 parts.
Here is the inside of a 1999 Westfalia (factory poptop)
Here is an example. This is a top conversion 2003 built from 1993 parts.
Here is the inside of a 1999 Westfalia (factory poptop)