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[VW911]

This forum has gained alot of frequent users and alot of visitors. It has become a great resource of knowledge for all. I believe it is time for another kinda "what's everyone building" thread. Just alittle info on what your building, what is it going in, where your located and any other info you want to give about yourself. That way we can see simularities and direct questions to each other, I'll start it off......

My Name is Earl Newell(vw911)
28 yrs old
I live in Raleigh, NC, USA
currently I am redoing my 1967 into the German Look (GL) concept.
3" wide fiberglass fenders
Porsche style whaletail
17x7.5 & 9" Porsche Cups
Built swing-axle tranny
3.88 r/p .821 4th
Type 4 motor:
1.8 914 case
100mm aluminum Empi jugs
stroke : undecided 71 or 78
1.7 914 heads with 2.0L valves

Plan on putting in a 6 point roll cage
and painting the car New Beetle silver.

website: http://www.community.webtv.net/vw911/VWGermanLookPage/

[Beetle08]

Although I follow the forums all the time, I'm not as frequent of a poster as I would like to be.

My Name is Mauricio
25 yrs old
I live in Seattle, WA, USA
I have a 1974 Superbeetle which is the project.
I have a 2200cc 914 based motor.
76mm Bergmann Crank
95mm Wiseco Pistons
Porsche 914 Cylinders
Total Seal Rings
Webb Cam
911 adjusters
1979 2.0 Bus Type 4 case
215mm Porsche 914 Flywheel and clutch assembly
Porsche 914 2.0L Heads with 42mm intake and 36mm exhaust
55amp 911 Alternator
11 blade fan and housing
Bosche 050 Distributor
8.6:1 Compression

Thats what is complete now (can e-mail pictures if anyone wants)
What's left is the exhaust, induction, and Shroud (on order from Sharpbuild)

The car has 1992 GTI leather seats front and rear, 901 5 speed, 996 brakes, and 16 x6,7 fuchs.

Mauricio

[This message has been edited by Beetle08 (edited 07-27-2000).]

[joeobrien@millenicom.com]

Hi,

My name is Joe O'Brien
31 years old
Orlando, FL
1973 Squareback (T-3) project.
Purchased the car in June with a rust free body and nice paint.

I've been a '914 guy' since I was 18 and am currrently building a 1.7 T-4 engine for the T-3. When finished I plan to publish pictures and directions for others to learn from my experience.

Pictures available upon request.

Joe

[tuna]

My name is Tom Slider (tuna)
28 years old
I live in Redlands, CA, USA (which is about 10 minutes from where the original EMPI was located)
I host this website (Captain Panic is the webmaster) and I'm the webmaster of Type 4: Secrets Revealed.

I'm currently building three cars. The first one is my Bug. See the details at this address: http://www.tunacan.org/cars/69bug.shtml

The next car is my EMPI Imp dune buggy, which is my daily driver at the moment. The details are here: http://www.tunacan.org/cars/70imp.shtml

The final car is a project my dad and I are building together. It's a Manx look-alike: http://www.tunacan.org/cars/poudy.shtml

The first Type 4 engine I'm building is a 1911cc (96x66). It's basically a stock 1.8 engine, with the 96mm big bore p/c, Scat C25 camshaft, original 200mm flywheel. This engine will go into the Manx lookalike.

My next project engine will be a 2.6L+ (I haven't committed to any particular size yet). This one will use the best of the best stuff. PEFI, PEI, 50x40 heads with a lot of headwork, etc. This engine will find it's way into the Imp.

Another engine that is currently in the planning and engineering stages is an 1832cc. It uses a 1.7/1.8 crank with the 94mm pistons from a 2.0, connected by a Type 1 rod. It will be a demostration to all that cc for cc, the Type 4 can out perform a Type 1. I haven't decided what car this will go into.

The Bug will probably see quite a few different Type 4s. It will be my test bed for trying out new engine combinations.

Tuna

[kokanee]

Tim Troutman, 21, from San Luis Obispo, California, Materials Engineer in training: 1.5 yrs to go.

As a kid, I grew up riding motorbikes in the Anza Borrego desert. I also ended up rebuilding the bikes (the very beginning of my aircooled experience) time and again, but, as I got bigger, I broke several frames and they were a little harder to fix "right"

Time for something a little more stable, so I bought a Jeep, which I have been very happy with, both on the road and off. But the cars' performance was a little lacking in the sand. while fun, the front end acted like a big plow, and If you didn't keep speed would sink you for sure.

It was time to build a sand car...
Those of you familiar with Borrego, know that if you want to go into the state-park your vehicle has to be street-legal. so what I needed was a Manx (a street-legal quad).

I bought the car rather than built it to avoid smog trouble. It came with a poorly functioning 1200, which I planned to replace with a 1776, and eventually with a T-IV.

I was lucky to have a 914 land in my lap only 2 weeks after I bought the car. Thanks to Tom, I sucessfully mated the engine to the car, but... I have had trouble getting the engine to run right (it's tired), and the car is old... so it has it's problems. Between the two, the car sees the road less than a week every month.

As a student, funds are lacking, so the car has been wonderful for low-budget performance.

'64 Manx
914 2.0L
dual weber 40's
"modified" bursch exhaust
nice new chrome rims
My uncle George's lighted whip pole.
10" steerting wheel
914 seats

I am going to get a liscence plate frame soon, but am undecided between:

"Low Budget- High Hopes"

"The Off-roadster"

"Just another Porsche-powered golf cart"

--Kokanee

[Karmghia70]

My name's Jeff Mack. I'm 28 and I live in the Boston area. I work on WWII amphibious Trucks that do site seeing tours of Boston.

I currently own 2 VW's.
60 sunroof Beetle, which is in a state of complete restoration to be a Cal-looker. I'm still unsure of what the power plant will be.
My other is a 70 Ghia hardtop with a 2.oL 914 motor. It's been dropped and has riviara rims. the specs are as follows:

2.oL 914 case
2.oL Heads Ported and polished by MSHP
MSHP Cam
DTM fan shroud
75 amp Altenater
48IDA's on CB manifolds w/ CB linkage
FAT performance Exhaust
MSD6A w/ 009 Dis. and Pertronix Ignitor
Kennedy conversion flywheel w/ Stage II clutch assembly
Bone Stock Tranny(weak point)
Gene Berg Traction bar Urethane Mounts and Tranny strapps

This is a Daily driver and I put 5k on it yearly. I raced it twice last year and could only get 17.01. It spins the tires way too much.

[Karmghia70]

I almost forgot. I've got a 2.7L Type IV I'm slowly working on. so far I got for it:

1.8 914 case
2.oL heads( got these for $50.oo a show)
MSHP 104mm Pistons w/ 6 stud setup

I need to get a 78mm crank for this thing
Any help or suggestions on what to put into this would be great. I have Ideas,but stuff like valve size and exhaust size are questions I need to answer.

[vw@micron.net]

Hey Karmghia70 shoot me an email at vw@micron.net and lets talk about your engine.
Steve Arndt

[paul]

Paul Collins
Central Texas

Or I will be in a few months.I'm currently employed by the US Army in Bosnia so I can't do much more than dream about my homelife.

I stumbled on this site and have been impressed by the folks who hang out here.I hope to put a T4 in my 69 Bug and the old 1500sp is tired!My daughter is ready to start driving!And so am I!!!

Thanks to Tuna and Captain for making this a happening,insightful place.

[GDRBO]

I live near Portland Or. I am an out of place desert racer (live in the NW rather than Baja). I have been into VWs since 72 and have or do own type 1,2,3,4, as well as bajas rails and desert race buggys (classes 1,2,10 and 12)I bought my first t-4 motor in 73 but never got it built. I raced a 2.5 ltr. t-4 for 4 years in class 1 and 2 with SCORE and VORRA.

[CptanPanic2]

As most of you probably know from all my posts here, I am building a 2.7L (103 x 80) type 4 for my 71 super. It has 2.0L heads (48x38) and I got some 48IDFs. I am also using the Oregon Performance DTM shroud. I am glad to see that people are enjoying my site here, I saw that there was a void on the internet, and I sought to fill it. Which I think we are.
Enjoy.
Brian

[Dave_Darling]

Dave Darling. 34 years old. Cockpit Graphics Programmer for NASA by day, Pelican Parts 914 Tech Support guy by night.

1974 914 2.0. Stock as a rock. Well, with the exception of SSI exchangers, a Bursch muffler, and a bigger oil pump. And a couple of extra gauges.

It's been dead for a few weeks (this time). I haven't made enough time to go out and troubleshoot it yet.

--DD

[teenytrout]

I'm Mike Webber, systems manager for Rocky Mountain Motorworks here in Colorado. I've got a '76 Westy which went nearly 250,000 miles before the original engine blew...not bad in my book. I've rebuilt it with a slight upgrade in parts trying to give it more life for everyday driving. I love the damn thing and which makes it my own little purgatory...all nine levels too. Anyway, I have always admired you guys and what you do so well...and envious too...so please, for the love of God keep answering my stupid questions...

teenytrout

[satlee]

Hi,

I'm Mav, I'm 31 I have a lowered 1963 Splitty Panel Van which used to be a South Afican Panel Van. It's runs a Type 3 IRS rear end with a 1968 front beam with Vanwagon disk brakes on Chevy 16" wheels.
The engine is as follows :

Mav's 2.4 Liter Type 4
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MSHP 6 Stud Conversion
Case opened to accept 104mm Pistons, Align bored and then saddle locked.
Oil Galleries drilled and tapped.
Heads 44x38 stainless valves, ported and polished
Compression 8:5 to 1
Dual Valve springs
104mm Forged Pistons with total seal ring
71mm Stroke Counterweighted Crank
Eurorace 'G' grind & Johnson Lifters
215mm Flywheel
Chromoly Push Rods
CB Performance Fuel Pump
Porsche 914 Oil Pump
44mm Webers + Velocity Stacks
55amp Alternator
Bosch Starter Motor
Compufire Ignition Unit
009 Distributor
Empi External oil cooler kit
DTM Shroud (type 1 fan)
Carbon Fiber sealing tin ware
Optima Yellow Battery