Tenchi's '71 Bug

[Thanney]

Thanks for all the happy wishes  ;D

[Thanney]

Ordered my Beam extender from Pegleg today.
http://www.peglegmetalwerks.com/beamext.html



He is still accepting orders untill the end of this year.


Now the hard part, waiting patiently :P

[Thanney]

Picked up some air adjustable shocks for the fronts at napa today, Jeff helped me put them in  ;D

Here is a pic of the air adjustable shocks


Here is a pic of the passenger side ride height


Here is another pic of the ride height


Now I have some suspension travel when I drive.
I am planning on getting an on board air-compressor with a reservior tank, so I can adjust the height on the fly.
Other future plans are to bag the rear, so I can drop it down to the floor when I am parked  8)

[Thanney]

My custom wheel adaptors came in yesterday.  The lug conversion goes from 4x130 to 5x100.

These were the wheels I had on before


And these are the ones I have on now


Check out the rest of the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/36912384@N04/sets/72157623221761505/

In both pictures the air shock is inflated quite a ways, the car sits lower  8)

[Matty]

Lookin' good buddy  ;)

[Thanney]

I realized I never posted pis of my new headlights.

[Thanney]

These arrived in the mail yeasterday  ;D


Now whats left are valves, lines, some gauges, and switches.

[Thanney]

Another thing I forgot to post about

[Matty]

so what does Tenchi mean?

[Thanney]

so what does Tenchi mean?

Tenchi is my nick name given to me by my friends back home.
The origen of the chi in my culture is usually attached to the nickname of the eldest child.
So my friends called me Tenchi.  Some of my friends back home nicknames are Fenchi, Linchi, etc.

[Matty]

so now I have to ask, where's home?

[Thanney]

I am from Aruba known for the Beach Boys song or according to the media: where blonds go missing

[Matty]

how that crap do you go from the Caribbean to Oregon???

brother, from what I know of you I think your a swell guy, but I think you got your priorities backwards

anywho....back to your ride. Looking good and look forward to to seeing the new parts on Mr. i won a free tune up

[Thanney]

I got voted off the island  :o
No it is good story, I'll have to tell sometime.

My goal for the bug is to have it looking close to my avatar picture by Bug Run

[corradojeff]

guess i better get going on the fenders then... 8)