Isn't she beautiful? This is the way she sat for a few years.

A little TLC and she will be as good or better then new.

Arriving at her new home. If you look off in the distance you can see Chicagoland Speedway (Nascar Track). Too bad it was so hazy the day I took this picture.

A quick look inside at the Swiss cheesed original ABS plastic Manx dash.

The hood was slated to be painted the next day. Needless to say, it was never painted. The buggy was originally metalflake blue. Doesn't she look good in her new home?

My friend, Tom helping me with the final assembly. I used a new windshield assy. from the Manx Club which allowed me to use hidden mounting bolts as per the "Classic Manx" instructions. Tom is actually moving the windshield mounting bolts around so I can slip the frame down over the bolt heads.

I replaced the original ABS plastic dash with a fiberglass replacement dash from the Manx Club. With the new dash glassed into the hood and instruments installed it's time for the wiring. the pieces of blue tape are notes to remind me of wiring colors. I hate getting old.
When I was done wiring, I was able to draw the schematic using what I had written on the masking tape.

The nearly finished product.
Notice the new fiberglass dash that I fiberglassed to the hood. The dash is from the Manx Club.

Here is a picture of the folding fuse and relay panel. The panel is fastened to the front firewall and when folded up, it latches into the under dash cross brace. It also allows you to wire the hood seperately from the rest of the body . I used Weatherpak connectors to plug all the wiring together.

Front view....waiting for her maiden voyage.

Side view.... waiting for her maiden voyage.

After comparing the 2, I really don't know what EMPI was thinking when they built the IMP. You may also notice, it has a MANX rollbar installed in it.

My Manx with my Sister driving the Berrien Nostalgia buggy at Silver Lake dunes.

I couldn't pass up the picture.

My Manx with Lake Michigan in the backround. Good shot of my Camco Fab stainless muffler, bolted to an original chrome Manx Sidewinder header. I will probably have the header ceramic coated this spring. The Camco Fab muffler really sounds sweet.

My new 1914 cc engine, complete with 9.5:1 compression, ported big valve heads from A.J.Sims, Scat C-45 cam, Scat 69 mm c/w crank, dual Weber 44 IDF's, it also has a vintage 1 1/4 qt.Berg magnesium oil sump that actually came off the "Sonic Muffin" VW bug race car. The picture was taken just before I fired it up for the first time.

Just another shot of the new engine. The fan shroud and cylinder tins have been powdercoated in "Hammertone" gray.

The electric fuel pump mounting. Facet fuel pumps are very picky about the fuel they injest so I have a German made, Mann filter between the tank and the pump.I also have a filter filtering the fuel as it exits the pump. You can't be to careful.

The front of my Manx.

The ground buss for the dash wiring. It is mounted to the bottom of the hood with 1-10ga. wire running from the hood to a frame ground.

Completely installed and tuned engine. You have to excuse the oil leak, somehow 2 of the pushrod tubes became damaged and started to leak. It has since been fixed.

The interior from the front.

My Manx sitting on the beach in Silver Lake. The rainbow colored thing in the front seat is my Nieces kite, "Biplane Bernie"

A little closer look at the grafitti that was painted on the buggy.
I still haven't figured out how to insert the picture in between the pictures it needs to be between.

FUSE PANEL LATCH. This picture shows the panel in it's closed (latched position.The spring loaded knob is available from McMaster-Carr. The latch has a pin that fits into a hole that I drilled in the crossbar under the dash.
Please excuse the complete lack of photographic quality, I stuck the camera under the dash and hoped for the best.

Something just doesn't belong.

Getting ready for it's maiden voyage in the sand.

I still need to install the wipers.

Oil filter mounted on the back of the battery box.

This is the 2nd reincarnation of my 1914. I had the SCAT C-45 cam go flat in a matter of 1500 miles. I'm trying a Web Cam this time with SLR treated SCAT Lube-A-Lobe lifters. Time will tell.

The cooling tins and shroud a finished in a hammertone gray powdercoat.

Manx engine, left side.

Manx engine, right side

Left carb. Engine installed.

Full flow oil lines and my vintage Berg magnesium sump.

I was seeing a lot of oil vapor in the breather filter. I went to Walgreens and bought a copper scouring pad and installed it in the breather. It seperates the oil from the vapor and allows the oil to drain back into the engine.

Oil drains back into the engine via a line from the bottom of the breather to the fuel pump block off plate.

CB Performance, engine breather.

I couldn't help snapping this picture of my buggy...

My new side view mirrors. I bought them and the mounting brackets thru Pacific Customs.

Here is a rather blurry picture of the rear on my Manx showing the camber compensator. Give me a break, I was kneeling in the snow to get this picture. I didn't realize it doesn't stick down any further then the 1 1/2 qt. oil sump on the engine.

Camber compensator as it mounts to the trans side cover studs. Tthe bracket is slotted so there is no reason to remove the studs from the trans.

2005 Harsh Winters VW Club "Bugapaloosa" in Sandwich, Ill.
My buggy.

Manx Club Stainless roll bar.
The upper bracket on the Manx Club roll bar is not in the same place as the original Manx roll bars, it's exactly 1" higher on the roll bar. In the picture you can see the original roll bar mounting hole in the body.

Manx roll bar, lower mounting point.

Manx roll bar, lower frame mount.

HARDTOP MOCKUP SIDE

HARDTOP MOCKUP REAR

Prototype side mounts to mount the side wings of the hardtop to the rollbar. The mount will be made from 1" thick, black nylon sheet w/threaded inserts for the bolts to thread into.

The side mounts will hold the side wings off the body to protect the paint.