Hi folks ! I have had my first bug for almost six months now. Made the mistake of letting a friend set the timing and cooked cylinder #3. ( Shatterd is more like if :(. So, instead of paying some shmoe down here 1000 bucks to install a questionable rebuilt 1600, I decided ( with the help...

I know how much you all missed me... so i decided to return! I am sure things are a lot different here since I left... I heard Jan is moving to FL finally... and we are going to try and have a RAMVA gtg here soon? hope to see some of you there! ah well... let the drama begin!

Hi Does any body have the deegreeing card from an Engle W120 that I can have a copy, I lost mine. Regards to all Miguel

check this out, latest Mid america mororworks catalog cover photo has a big old chrome showpiece engine, with bows and pine boughs around it. you know, nice looking picture, dual carbs, chrome shroud etc. get this, IT HAS A VACUUM DIZ!!! Something they don't even sell!! anyway I thought it was...

The older air-cooled Porsche engine are the same design as VW. (I think) So what makes the Porsche engine so much faster, stronger, etc.? -- Mel P. 77 Bug w/ stock FI 70 KG Cabrio

Today a scrap dealer called me that he had a beetle engine in. I went to look, not a beetle, looks very similar though. Block looks like a 1600 but large gear in the center instead of pully, flat distributor, on heads are 2 valve covers with each a rocker arm, so one rocker arm per cylinder. Also...

Please help me!!! I recently bought a sand rail. The sand rail was supposedly built from a 1964? Beetle. The engine that came with the sand rail supposedly "spun a bearing." Due to my recent purchase, my friend gave me 3 engines and 3 trans axles he had in his barn. Do to the orginal engine...

http://www.employees.org/~travist/can.jpg /insert quote here about prying cold, dead beer can from my hands or something along those lines.

The 71 Super I bought had one of the sloppiest shifters out of all of them I have had. Once I located my local Bug store I picked up a rear coupler, a shift rod bushing and a quick shift kit. When I went to put the shift rod bushing in I notoced that the hole was wore out in a huge oval. You...

The latest Hot VW mag. has an article about a guys rust brown 67 bug. He has several interesting parts on the car but no address as to the maker. One is a set of special flange parts to save your paing on the deck lid hinge bolts and the other made by the same company is a set of billet gas tank...

I have a 66 bug with a 1776 cc engine. I know it has some sort of reground cam, bigger jugs and pistons and headers. What I don't know is what gap to set my valves at. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike

Does anyone have good directions to the Litchfield show off of Route 84 in Conn? Thanks in advance - David

> > "Leopold Stotch" > wrote in message > news:tcyal.465449$TT4.258675@attbi_s22... >>I surmised that you weren't very bright by the way you let a mental >>defective like Mario lead you around by the nose. Thank you for >>confirming that assessment. seems you posted...

Soon to be released in 1/48th scale (1/4 inch = 1 foot) VW Type 82 E staff car. Kit is by Tamiya price unknown. Mike

While merrily derusting and repairing, I need to protect the work on my frame and make sure it doesn't rust again before it is bolted to the body. A couple of days ago this was not a problem because it was pretty warm: POR15 and RustMedic cures fine when it is warm and makes a nice hard...

I was thinking... .... how much would it cost to build a stock 1600 DP (69x85.5 34pict3 carb, points/condensor stock valves and heads including a stock pressure plate/clutch disc/throwout bearing, header, sheetmetel ... like the one I just had built including heater boxes!) motor starting with...

I am looking for a VW beetle ( kingpin suspension ) for a baja project . Or would also consider one for a dailey driver in stock condition. Thanks, Iowa883 Would also consider one located in an adjoining state with Iowa.

Details tomorrow. ps- It was worth it. :-D "Stupid people are funny." - me

Hi, I am after a bit of advice on a personal matter. My husband bought a Golf 2.0 SE Auto from a local dealer 4 years ago - it was new at the time. It has had inumerable problems with the air mass meter, lambda probe etc . It will run fine for a while and then out of the blue starts to burn fuel...

Use discression going there... J.