Confirmed: I still believe in VEWIB quality!

In the meantime I got a personal reply from the Managing Director of VEWIB - which I contacted as well. He confirms that this is definately NOT a VEWIB part.
He sent a real long and interesting mail, explaining some of his business and the market for low cost reproduction Beetle parts in Brazil. This is what I call customer relationship!
Thank you Mr. Kalff! I really appreciate your feedback.

Sailing under false colors!
My personal opinion is that the dealer claimed that this was a VEWIB part intentionally. A behavior I absolutely detest!

I already sent the part back to the dealer and hope he returns the money soon ...

frustrating, bad spare parts quality ...

I am already used to find a lot of junk whenever I want to buy spares for aircooled VW's.
The latest addition to my list of crap is a reflector for the tail light - the dealer claims it is a VEWIB part - but I don't think so... I was always under the impression that VEWIB cares about quality, take a look:

first impression: not too bad

but: mounting tab too wide -almost 1,5mm to 2 mm

 measurement between the domes: original part: 48,90 mm

spare part:  measurement between the domes: almost 53 mm

as a result it doesn't even fit in the housing!

on top of that, the mounting tab - which should be Z-shaped is crooked

So it is a useless piece of junk which I send back to the dealer!
I really don't get the point, Someone invests a lot of time and money to set-up a stamping tool and when he reaches 70% archievement he just stops and sells this shit?!?

interior clean up

It is about time to take care of the interior. The door cards I bought awhile ago were full of gunk and bird poo, here is an example of a rear panel with the classic before/after comparison:

looks brand new again!

major steps!

Today my friend Rui helped installing the motor, here is an overview of what I put together beforehand:

... finally at home:

... all electric connections are done, the starter works,  oil pressure is existent - tomorrow I will fill up the tank and crank it over for the first time!
I am not sure about the clutch - feels a little strange...We will see!

Oh, and here are some pics of the rest:

Raid steering wheel; Speedometer; padded dash and seats installed, all switches wired, the body is polished and waxed and stainless steel trim is installed.

finally, an update!

After I received all the cooling tins for the engine, I could continue to assemble it:
all of the satin black powder coated stuff + the dog house  fan shroud (not shown)

assembly of the geberator tins and fan:

the engine so far: intake manifold, generator, coil and header + heat exchangers installed

of course, I installed a brand new clutch 

here it is, on the lightened flywheel, an old (but cad plated) input shaft helps locating / centering the disc:

Engine mock-up / Header headaches:

This is the current state of the Streaker engine:

 The Baja header had to be reworked quite a bit, this is definately one of the reasons for the "world known" EMPI quality:

 Some of the tubes were far too long and I had to grind off a lot.

It was more than 2cm on the worst tube!

Now it looks much better:

Hannover 2014, parts hunt completed!

Unfortunately, this year the weather was not as expected, we had a lot of rain showers and dark skies. Which didn't stop me from spending all my time in the swap meet area - just like in the past years...
Here are my findings:

a lot of engine cooling tins, a set of stainless beetle side trim, an air filter with a new insert, some knobs for the Streaker dash, choke block off plates for the Volksback, a brand new Schleicher camshaft for the Volksback as well (in the cardboard box), a new dizzy cap, a 50 HP carburator and intake manifold and type 3 rear brakes, redrilled for 5x130 Porsche wheels + some misc. stuff like a steering column cover piece, some air vents and the annual coffee mug...
P.S.: It took some time to gain access to my blog due to some odd pop-upwhich I had to overcome, that is why this comes so late.