Motor build in full swing on the 1800 Single Port. A quick run down on the motor specs. I am running a Counterweight 74mm crank, H beam 5.4 rods, Machine in 88mm pistons, Empi 100 cam and straight cut gears. Heads are the OG single ports that were stripped, cleaned...

A comparison shot of the OG paint before and after some buffer action. And here is the After shot. Light pressure, very light cut but tons of gloss. Its hard to top those old VW single stage paints. The motor is currently going together but to catch up on the pre...

SO, this is where we ended up. Starting on Wed morning with a bare pan, by Friday the car was assembled and body was back on. Not bad for 3 days of steady working on it. I have to admit that looking at the car now, it came out better...