Progress on the MassIVe 79 vert project

[Racer Chris]

Working alongside Jake is going to give me an ulcer

Yeah, I only lasted a week there, and we hardly spent any time working together.

BTW, your header is done. I still have to build the silencer.

[Can Drive Soon]

Black and Grey two-tone on the interior

Cloth or Leather?

[MASSIVE TYPE IV]

Actually I seldom build a car for myself with this much detail. Generally my cars are for everyday driving and hard thrashing so I could care less how good they look on the outside. Mechanically any of them could be jumped into and driven cross country without even blinking your eye, but some haven't been washed in a year- except the 912E...

BTW- I don't think I have ever seen a girl that loves Carbon Fiber so much!

[MassIVe 79 Vert]

Black and Grey two-tone on the interior

Cloth or Leather?

Both actually.....Black Leather with a cloth grey/mix insert in the center of the seats. Wanted to give it a little more detail than just solid black. Plus, those cloth inserts in the seats won't be as hot as black leather on a hot summer day!

[Can Drive Soon]

Sounds good.

[silly english bugger]

Jake,
Your 79' looks great...Mine 79 has a slightly deeper shade of silver with ally's from a 944 (16"). If I had time to figure out how the hell to post pics on this site I would post some!!
I have replaced the rear apron on mine with a severly modified one from a standard bug. It is detachable.... with top mountings in the engine bay and lower mountings using the stock fender lower holes.
I've also had lots of fun & games adapting the cooling tin to suit the different shaped engine bay!!!! ....I'm sure you will be aware of this P.I.T.A. by now!!!
Andy.

[ratwell]

We have decided to go with a full set of digital instruments from www.dakotadigital.com as well as a really sweet satellite radio set up that will free up a ton of dash space for the added instruments.

That all in one unit they sold for several years or the individual gauges? I guess the 79 dash is too new for the all-in-one cluster.

I've been using their CHT gauge for the last 6 months and it's great.

The OP and OT gauges from DD both use VDO senders so they show basically the same results as the VDO gauges.

[Bug-a-natic]

hey guys that's a wonderful color! what is the color code and the brand paint that u used for the vert? I love it!

[MassIVe 79 Vert]

Thanks! I think it turned out great too.

No color code for it though....it's a custom mix

[Plastermaster]

From an asthetic stand point, I always liked the dial/needle guages, but digital is alot easier to read. Theres that thing of space between needle and face throwing the reading off depending on the angle you are viewing. If you ever see a red Ghia coming at you bee lined for a head on collision, and there appears to be no driver...thats me laying side ways to get a straight shot at my CHT guages.

Ron

[tuna]

From an asthetic stand point, I always liked the dial/needle guages, but digital is alot easier to read.

Curious, I've found just the opposite. Once you are familiar with a car, like my Bug, I can just glance, and by just seeing the location of the needle, I get the information I want. You aren't reading the guage, just getting a location, and memory tells you the scale in your mind. It's the reason why I only will have dial guages in my cars.....

Tuna

[samcat]

From an asthetic stand point, I always liked the dial/needle guages, but digital is alot easier to read.

Curious, I've found just the opposite. Once you are familiar with a car, like my Bug, I can just glance, and by just seeing the location of the needle, I get the information I want. You aren't reading the guage, just getting a location, and memory tells you the scale in your mind. It's the reason why I only will have dial guages in my cars.....

Tuna

Ditto that. Most of my gauges 'straight up(ish)' is the normal area, anything else required a second look.

Digitals are great IF you can tie a colour into it, with (say) Yellow as low, green as in the correct range and red as high...

Cya,
Sam C

[Plastermaster]

Yeah, I've learned to correct for it. With my CHT I thought my temps looked about 25 deg hotter than actual for the first few days, and then checked with a straght on view. I was surprise it was thrown off that much, bit even the 3 inch guage has its lines close together, and each line is 25 deg. Its more a problem for my backseat driver (sitting beside me) looking at the speedometer telling me to hurry up when I'm already going 80MPH

Ron

[Tobra]

I almost cried when I read this. My plan was to convert my '79, that I happened to have been driving for 25 years, but ended up selling it back to Mom to get my 914.


Window seals are a pretty big pain on a convertible, pay someone to do the rear window. You will probably want to run some of those Kafer cup braces in the back, and perhaps do some beefier reinforcements along the sides of the pan, maybe use chromoly in place of the original pieces. With all that torque, you could turn that pretty silber auto into a pretzel, if it anything like that blue car I watched a clip of

[MASSIVE TYPE IV]

It'll be nothing like the Bluebonic Plague....

Its being designed for fuel economy solely and smooth power..... Its a girl's car so MAX RPM will be 5K and MAX HP around 110..

But the goal is 50 MPG- I won't settle for less than 40!