Volksback: Juli 2012

Freitag, 27. Juli 2012

The Volksback: finally wheels aligned

I only aligned the track and camber roughly, but in order not to waste my new tires I decided to let the pro's check and realign it:

sensors attached (the reflection in the drivers door is NOT a dent! - I just double checked in the garage!)

steering wheel fixed and levelled (You can also see the carpet kit I started to install - with no success, the velcro tape doesn't really stick...)

At first glance, everything still looks clean and healthy from below so far ...

but upon closer inspection: Some filth in the fuel filter and the clamp chafing on the tie rod!

the front axis prior to alignment: not too bad! Overall toe-in is too big @ 1°10'

Now toe is perfect @ 0°30' - left and right toe exactly @ 0°15' We didn't touch the camber as it is not such a big influence and the values are not too far off. The original positve camber is not good anyway...

In the rear camber and toe are o.k. for me - remember this car is lowered and the original "o.k" values in the computer are not for a type 3 anyway, in addition the original values for a Type 3 are ancient, based on bias ply tires usage etc...

me? - addicted? - No way!

In 2008 I started collecting some certain Hot Wheels, today I checked the content of my box and found 131 cars + a few doubles... I (only) collect selected Heat Fleet, HW Racing Series (black, blue and white), Muscle Mania, some Dragsters and - of course, everything with aircooled VW's! In addition are some others I just bought 'cause I like them ...

Only a few are really collectables in my eyes, like some japanese packaged, some regular treasure hunts - and even 2 Secret Super Treasure Hunts! Most of 'em are short cards but a few long cards are also in the box...
With roughly 250! releases per year, you could spend a fortune and you could get carried away easily...
If you want to learn more about Hot Wheels, there is an own Wiki for it on the web with tons of info!
Look here: http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Hot_Wheels

Samstag, 21. Juli 2012

back from holidays...

After nearly 2 weeks of - more or less continous rain - we're back. I took the Volksback for a spin today:

The Volksback, in the background: The "Ruhrtalbrücke" ruhr valley bridge, 1830 meters length, both build in 1966 - but it took 3 years to build the bridge and only a few hours to build the Volksback - in 1966, the restoration took a while longer...