Main Info Thread

[Natsume]

Many of you have heard that i was going to build a real live havoc! this is true, or at least as true as close as my dad and i can get to building the havoc. i want to share the information i recieve from my father concerning the work he is doing on it, and from information gathered by myself. if you are from the PSU (PlayStaion Underground) and are not a member here, please include your PSU name (if applicable) in your (every) post in these threads for easier reference. i do have a poor memory and it is inconvenient for me to forget your name while wriing a message to several people.

Back to the matter at hand, i will (hopefully) edit this post w/ any (relevant) posts i make in the future of this thread. i hope to make one post minimum every weekend to go over the current progress made over the past week.

a line of me:

will signify the beginning/end of the different posts that will accumulate in the editing i make.


now to the part you actually WANTED to read!

on Sunday September 3, 2006 my dad bought a '68 Baja Bug (VW) for $800 (thats pretty cheap for those of you who dont know). the engine is all i wish to use for the havoc. everything else is scrap to me, but dad seems to have future plans for the poor thing that ive nicknamed, "Herby"

Herby's Engine:
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Herby from back-left:
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herby from the front-left:
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Herby under the hood:
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Herby on the inside:
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for some you who find the 'engine' and 'under the hood' pictures confusing, it may help to know that VW bug engines are in the back of the car, and they are air cooled. lol
why did i choose a bug you ask? well i am most familiar w/ the VW bug engine, because i often help my dad w/ our current Dune Buggy (a.k.a. Sand Rail) which is also a VW (and i like the way they sound so pretty and distinct *hug*). ill include a picture of it later because its cool and it will give some of you and idea of what the havoc will look like w/o the sheet metal/body parts ;D
Sunday was spent mostly just looking at the car and figuring out wat it needed to make it run (yes we had to tow it home). dad found out wat the engines stats were that day too.
"H5 August '67 through July '69. 53 hp, 1500 cc..."
that means that this engine was in bug's from Aug '67 to July '69, the stock engine has 53 horsepower, and 1500 cubic centimeters (its metric because VW's are german silly ) of piston displacement...the last part is hard to explain...but to compare Herby's engine to the one we have in our dune buggy right now (it was very similar before dad got his hands on it so im going to be comparing these two often), the horsepower the dune buggy has now is about 200 lol.

On Mon. 9/4/06 (it was a holiday so no school ^_^) dad and i woke up early to work on Herby a bit, see if we could get it running, or whatever else we could do to improve it. first thing we tried was starting it. dad plugged a battery charger up to herby the night before so that the battery (which was dead, dad says its the alternator, which i have been informed is bad [the alternator's bad not bad for the car i mean....like bad eggs...its useless...anyway...]) would work in the morning! and yes it did. at least...it tried to start and what a very noisy starter it has too! lol
after removing the filter on the carberator, and spraying some carberator fluid in it, we tried to start it again...no luck...more carberator fluid- tried again...nadda...we tried this several times, until at last, things started to change. you could hear the engine was reacting....anyway after a million more dittos and repeats we got it going steadily...that is...until dad lets off the gas...so thats the next puzzle- why wont it idle?-dad takes out the screwdriver, adjusts some things, and voila! the idle! ahh...listen to it purr....hahahaaa....well, from there we work on the brakes. which dont seem to do anything (no we didnt try to drive it yet! lol dad jacked up herby and rolled a wheel whilst i applied pressure to teh brakes...) so we head to the hood, and find there is no brake fluid so...after filling it up we try again...w/ a little success...after this i had to go to work and while i was away dad fixed the brakes sorry theres no info there; well appearantly while he was drivin around in herby he didnt go very far because the clutch is rattling pretty bad.

and thats all the time weve had so far...so to sum up everything weve done (including some parts i didnt have room/time for-o yea...dad mustve taken the engine out 3xs already lol):

*Charge the battery
*remove some annoying paneling around the engine
*fix the brakes(unless they leak...then well find out where...then fix it)
*saw off a rusted bolt on the front left tire....(that was fun XD)
*remove the outer shells of the exaust (now the exaust has pretty lil fins )
*umm....you know i really dont remember...but we did a lil bit more...



Sept 9 to 10 & Sept 15 to 17

phew, wats it been? 2 weeks? well, i meant to tell you guys on the weekend of 9-9 to 9-10 we went to Dumont which is where my havoc's going to be tearin' it up~ (hopefully, a thread [pictures!~] on that soon)

but last weekend, dad did some fixing up w/o me fortunately, i noticed the bug had moved from in the garage to the side of the house heh...well on 9-15 (a Fri) dad said he realized that it wasn't the clutch thats messed up, as was noted in the first weekend...turns out it was the shifter linkage (we couldnt get it into 1st or 2nd gear, were were actually in 3rd -_-). also looks like the front drive suspension needs some tightening. good news is that the brakes aren't leaking, which befuddles us as to why there was no brake fluid in it when we got it...hmm, more good news is that the battery is holding a charge, though Herby still needs a new alternator...thats all, till this crazy weekend's over @.@



Sept 30 to Oct 1

Another week or 2 and im typing again @_@ soo...tired...yet i must type! Ok! Wat weve done so far has been updated below!~

Since Herbys been moved to the side of the house we havent been able to do much except find out how to get his key out XD, umm....hmmm, well we pulled him out for a drive for a sec and as dads going down the street im watching the engine bounce around a bit lol! So that means the transmission mount is loose...so much to do! And...all the time in the world – unavailable! i found it hard enough to find the time to compile this...but its all coming! Memory, dont fail me now!



2/8/07

Dad want to put a turbo in the bug! YAY! i didnt even think of that one...he must be learning! BWAHHAHAHA!1111one1



k, its 30 mins till midnight, im going to bed then waking up early and refresh to get some of this stuff done ^o^ have fun everyone!

wanna thank God, cause i was all like, Lord if its ur will let this project like work and stuff, and everythings been really enjoyable lately, i mean we got herby cheap and everything...and everythings just doin well, so yea, wanna thank God. ^_^

[Destroyer]

sweet, so just to clarify its not like a car is it?
or is it more like a go-kart or something that youre making the havoc of?

[Natsume]

:/ its not something youre allowed to drive down the street, but when i put the sheet metal on it, itll look remotely like a car lol, its going to be my sand toy though :3 itll be...a car for the dunes...hmm? not sure how else to describe it...ulll just have to wait till i get a pic of our rail...

[Destroyer]

ok I get it now, just needed a little clarification is all, got a little confused with the talk of Herby and its recreation

Oh and will it have the classic "sweet AC" button from the commercial?

[Natsume]

hahahaa i sooo thought about that XD...one thing id like to do is put lights inside the gun barrels up top, in addition to the headlights under the hood, and i thought maybe id make something like the commercial where im messing w/ stuff...not sure wat special stuff itll do yet though....hmm...maybe i should talk to "pimp my ride" to see if theyll fund me some expensive hydraulics for rotating and interchangable weapons #think# ;D lol hahahaa

[Darkbugg]

There are so many cool things you can do to fix it up... it's going to be hard making decisions.

[Natsume]

Sept 9 to 10 & Sept 15 to 17

phew, wats it been? 2 weeks? well, i meant to tell you guys on the weekend of 9-9 to 9-10 we went to Dumont which is where my havoc's going to be tearin' it up~ (hopefully, a thread [pictures!~] on that soon)

but last weekend, dad did some fixing up w/o me fortunately, i noticed the bug had moved from in the garage to the side of the house heh...well on 9-15 (a Fri) dad said he realized that it wasn't the clutch thats messed up, as was noted in the first weekend...turns out it was the shifter linkage (we couldnt get it into 1st or 2nd gear, were were actually in 3rd -_-). also looks like the front drive suspension needs some tightening. good news is that the brakes aren't leaking, which befuddles us as to why there was no brake fluid in it when we got it...hmm, more good news is that the battery is holding a charge, though Herby still needs a new alternator...thats all, till this crazy weekend's over @.@

[Natsume]

Sept 30 to Oct 1

Another week or 2 and im typing again @_@ soo...tired...yet i must type! Ok! Wat weve done so far has been updated below!~

Since Herbys been moved to the side of the house we havent been able to do much except find out how to get his key out XD, umm....hmmm, well we pulled him out for a drive for a sec and as dads going down the street im watching the engine bounce around a bit lol! So that means the transmission mount is loose...so much to do! And...all the time in the world – unavailable! i found it hard enough to find the time to compile this...but its all coming! Memory, dont fail me now! w/in this weekend or next week we should be getting some big things outa the garage, so well move the rail sideways in the garage, then put Herby in, so we can work ^_^

[*Mello*]

I was going to ask how the project was coming along since we hadn't heard from ya in a while! ;D It's great to hear you're making some progress. I know how it is to have too much to do and not enough time. Remember to keep taking pics as you make more progress (well, things that are visibly different ). It would be interesting to see it as it takes shape.

[Natsume]

yea cant wait to tear him apart....>: ) P.S. im making the Dumont thread right now! hooray pictures~ X3

[Darkbugg]

Yay! Finally, updates!

Keep up the hard work.

[Natsume]

were going to buy a new alternator for Herby today! X3 then were going to the movies....then im goin..to...work x.X i also wanna buy a game...<.<....>.>......gotta get rich at work today! wooo...

[Darkbugg]

Haven't heard an update in a while... How's it going?

[Natsume]

I keep forgetting what my dad tells me, cause im never near to a writing utensil, or even better my com.... but im going to keep trying to feed the info!

[Natsume]

hahaha its been sooo long ;.; but i havent forgot about it or anything! its just that expensive trips to europe, poor tips at work, and other stuff that gets in the way but dad told me

2/8/07

Dad want to put a turbo in the bug! YAY! i didnt even think of that one...he must be learning! BWAHHAHAHA!1111one1

lol well...stuff should be picking up in a month or so @~@ my hd went caput too bug/mello! so i got a new one :3 100 gigs, 60 gigs more than my last X3 that, and ive got a usb thingy so i can still store stuff on my old, now external, hd