Little job...
Did a very little job yesterday while it was raining - cleaned-up an original 6 volt coil and strap that we bought off the samba. Every little helps, as they say.
Machining Goodness...
We went over to Farnborough VW on Friday to pick up the newly machined pistons and barrels - they have been clearanced to work with the standard 1200 crank
We also had a look at the case which has been align-bored. Apparently it needed very little work as it was in much better condition than expected.
Also, the original rods and crank, which have all been machined and balanced...
Everything's looking really good - and it's always nice to see the Farnborough lot - top fellas.
We also had a look at the case which has been align-bored. Apparently it needed very little work as it was in much better condition than expected.
Also, the original rods and crank, which have all been machined and balanced...
Everything's looking really good - and it's always nice to see the Farnborough lot - top fellas.
Heat exchangers...
Well we though long and hard about whether to go with the stock heat exchangers, or to go with j-tubes (or indeed with the earlier heat exchangers) - but in the end decided to go with our stock originals - so we have fully working heating - and also because the overall concept is to keep the engine stock and stock-looking apart from the specific tuning goodies.Anyhow - we got the heat exchangers back from the powder coaters - satin silver-grey - which was the original colour of ours...
More powder coating...
We had part of the carb linkage - bit that fits to the fanshroud - powdercoated satin black to match the fanshroud - to keep things nice and neat.
WOO HOO!
Exciting package from Germany - our carb kit from Bernd Riechert - thanks Bernd! They are twin Solex 34's built with NOS parts to order, and single port manifolds to fit our 373's.
Shiny Tinware!
Well it turned out that a couple of pieces of tinware were rotted through, but we found a couple of replacements (cheers Rob!) and now we have everything back from the powder coaters. Everything has been done in stock satin black. We spent yesterday checking the bits out and refitting the fans to the shroud. A few bits here - pretty nice job I think...
Blast!
Good news, a bit of progress today as we got our tinware back from the blasters - it's looking pretty clean - now we just need to have a proper look through it to make sure everything's in good condition before it goes off to the powdercoaters.TDE article...
Another great VWMotoring vintage speed article - this one about Theo Decker (TDE) kits. Click the image to read the detail. BTW more updates to come on our build soon.
85bhp okrasa-based motor...
Check out this great article from 1965 about a '54 beetle in Australia that has had it's original motor pepped up to 1488 with a Okrasa crank and 82mm pistons. The compression ratio is a whopping 9.5:1. 85bhp and 105mph is pretty impressive stuff for a 1200 based motor. - Click on the pic to read all the detail. One of my favourite things about this article is that the picture of the motor was printed upside down - and the headline reads b.p.h instead of b.h.p. - good copy checking :-)
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