Roll call

[ashad3585]

hey bill,
what kind of cncs yall running?$
been a machinist/electrician for 14yrs.last mach. shop i worked at did mostly medical parts also aerospc stuff .extremely hi tol. type of work.oh yeah ,names aaron,hope to get to know all of you thru our common intrest
aaron

[alsehendo]

Steve, 49 year old who has always had an aircooled Bug since I was 15 living in Montana. I currently have an aircooled Vanagon Westy, in Wisconsin, and one in the UP of Michigan.

I keep running into good VWbs without working drive trains that have been sitting for long periods of time?wish I had more room. Recently got a working autostick Ghia. I picked up a 412 for the tranny, which was to go in the Ghia, but when I added an L-Jet to the torched 412 engine bay, it ran like a top and I spent time of and on this summer restoring it instead. Now I have 3 T4 powered vehicles and a Ghia and Super to go.

Tuna site, this forum, Jakes video, and Rays advise, have enabled me to bring the 2 Vanagons and 412 to life? all have resent rebuilds. The conversions come next, the T4 is much more substantial power plant that will last 3 times longer than the T1 and I have no idea why people say their harder to work on. I can?t tell you how many T1 heads I have trashed in the last 34 years.

[Cam]

I'm Cam... I'm from Melbourne, Australia and am 22 years old. At the moment I'm working on numerous music projects and setting up a band. I hope to get into soundtrack work along with production, mixing, etc...
Left school at 13 started messing around with race cars and doing grease monkey work for people wherever I could. Then when I was 15, I decided I wanted to become qualified in concourse standard body work so as I could open my own custom shop. I unfortunately landed myself in intensive care after getting pretty much poisoned. Turned out that I have a slightly weakend ammune system and that after years of respiratory problems the last thing I needed was to start messing with chemicals that you find in body shops.
So I got into acting and modelling, started racing again. Did TV and film work for 2 years whilst I properly recovered and started to race VW's. I could'nt afford to mess with Porsches, so started playing with 700KG sedans with high turning flat fours. Started to get snowed under with work for other people and then decided to do mechanical work and become properly qualified at how to build hardcore motors. I was now... Instead of being in a single car garage with a 10 car driveway (always worked outside unless there were contaminent risks i.e: re-building motors) ...In a workshop that had 6 cars on a hoist at one time, most running. It was great, very busy and I was learning alot of tricks that I should have known before. Then after awhile, I was eating at home one night and started coughing up bloody mucus. I was rushed to hospital and stayed there for a fortnight whilst I lost 6-7kgs and again told I could'nt work in a dirty enviroment. Basically the fumes from running engines and stuff had infected alot of my airways, osopheg...whatsitcalled.
So yeah, now I'm sticking with trying to be a rockstar , messing with just my and my girlfriend's (the most AWESOME woman in the world!) car and gathering as much tech info to build myself some sh!t hot, envelope pushing drivetrains After all, building it yourself is an art IMHO

[Billyisgr8]

hey bill,
what kind of cncs yall running?$
been a machinist/electrician for 14yrs.last mach. shop i worked at did mostly medical parts also aerospc stuff .extremely hi tol. type of work.oh yeah ,names aaron,hope to get to know all of you thru our common intrest
aaron

cnc milling machine ( similar to a bridgeport0 - cnc lathe ( if I can just find some time to hook the electronics back up, it was moved 1-1/2 months ago ) 5' x 6' cnc wood machine, and a cnc plasma cutter (once my other wood cnc is built I am converting the 5 x 6 into a plasma cutter) It should be done by April - June. I converted all the machines to cnc except for the 5 x 6 which I built. This way I'm only into everything for much less $$ but I still have cnc's which have .001 tolerance. which is plenty for what I make and have fun doing.

Oh ya I'm married with 3 girls too. 10, 9, and 8...... Yes I started young.. I was working with many responsibiities while all my friends were playing with cars... jeese I almost died of jealousy a few times, but now I can play with cars and do what I want while they have to stay home and babysit and change diapers....hahahaha....

Kevin

[Alaskabug]

Guess its time to stop reading and start writing. I'm John and I started my VW adventure when I was old. Yep, 49 to be exact. Had my '56 bug longer than I've had my wife of 26 years (and I keep reminding her of that too!), but put it up on blocks for all those years until last December (maybe I shoulda put her up on blocks instead). Now that most of the kids are gone, I've got more time to tinker on the bug.

The pans totally restored with CB disk brake kit and 2" dropped spindels, RP pro street plus tranny is waiting to hook up with a kick &*$ engine.

Body will be in its first prime in a week or so, and hope to give it the final squirt by Christmas.

The engine? Ah yes. Well, was going to build a big t1 like all the other guys in the local club, but I like being different. So, found a couple t4's and plan to do the upright conversion asap. The t4's are both 1.7L's from a 411 and 412. Will bump them up to 2.0L + . Picked up a counterweighted crank and rods on e-bay, so it looks like I'm on my way. Tons of "dumb" questions coming at ya. Can't wait to see the look on Club guys faces when I roll in with my t1 sleeper.

Oh, I'm a firefighter in Anchorage, Alaska (Captain actually), 24 years and soon to retire so I can really start playing. Been in Alaska 45 years. You guys are all great, a wealth of knowledge, thank's for sharing it with a dummy like me. Ordered Jake's conversion video and Joe's manual so will study them when they arrive in the mail (by dog sled

'Nuff for now,
John A.

[VWGirl]

---------Did drive a Corvair automatic for 250,000 miles---------------.

Saw a running turbo spyder FS in the Trader locally for $2900.
Might want to look into that if you are a Corvair type guy...I heard
the are collectable!


Don

$2900 usually buys a pretty nice if not totally restored corvair... they really are not worth ANYTHING... hard to sell... and I wouldn't want to know how hard it is to find someone to fix one!

Look online and you can see 100% restored ones for less than $5000

[Griznant]

I'm Grant, 28, married, mechanical engineer who gets to work in the exciting world of home appliance product design (washers and dryers). I've got a mess of cars and projects, but the biggest one (the house) is mostly finished. Now I'm finishing the inside of my garage (heat, A/C, TV, cable, phone, drywall, etc.)

Current cars are:

1969 Porsche 912 (2056ccs of stompin' T4 power)
1973 VW Bug (stocker resto)
1956 VW Bug (full-on mutant custom project)
1968 VW Squareback (T4 resto/custom project)
1969 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce (roadster fun)
1987 Chevy Nova (my old college car with an MR2 engine swap)
2000 Dodge Dakota (V8, stick, tow vehicle, runs 14.5 quarters)
2004 Lexus IS300 (wife's car)


Later,

G

[amskeptic]

Colin, 44, came home from the hospital in a bug, grew up with a series of deluxe 21/23 window microbuses, bought my '73 bus in 1979 when I was nineteen, still drive it most days, kept it through a whole series of fine cars because I like it better than the ex-BMW 630CSi, MB 380SEL, Lexus LS400, blah blah blah. Trained in clinical psychology at U.C.L.A. found the entreprenurial life much more fun, have run and shut down a series of businesses, including, Griznant, appliance service of all of those machines you design, ( you were NOT involved in the Neptune's ongoing control board resistor fry, I trust ) currently am managing an HVAC/Appliance company's training and service procedures, I want to blow it off and start an Air-Cooled VW Emergency Response Mobile Lab, just call when your engine or chassis expires on the road, I'll get there within 48 hours, have you running within the week, nationwide, blown rods to faulty fuel pumps sort of thing. Well, I can dream. . . .
Colin

[dready]

My name is Allen Yost. I am 24 and live in San Diego. I am a Rf tech(electronics). I been a vw fanatic for about 5 years now. But I am new in the type 4 scene. I like power and reliability and it seems that the TIV is the way to go. I have a 59 ghia and a 63 kombi. The type 4 will go into the ghia. This forum is awesome. Keep up the good work..

[Class 11 streeter]

Trained in clinical psychology at U.C.L.A....

Hey amskeptic, do you know/know of a Professor Fred Massarik? He's my Father-in-Law..

Anyway, name's Monte, 34, currently living in the "Governators" state of Kali-fornia. Got interested in cars at the usual early age and suffered the pain of expensive american muscle cars for all my teenage years. Spent 13 years in the Marine Corps traveling the world on the Government plan. Traveled to exotic and distant lands, met interesting people, and killed them. (Like they say, when it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight, call the Marines!) Got out of the Corps in 2001, and now I am a Civil Service civilian employee of the Air Force. Great employers, and they have more money!!!
Just before the end of my days in uniform, a Marine buddy of mine became my roommate, and he had a bug. As I started helping him on his weekly fixit sessions on his bug, I started to get the idea maybe these little slow cars were not so bad after all. So, bought a thrashed Baja, had lots of fun beating the crap out of it, bought another offroad beetle, and now I see no end in sight, the disease is terminal. Now, with a Type 4 engine in mind, I am looking for that legendary power and reliability for my offroading. At this rate, I may never own a stock VW........cool!

[MASSIVE TYPE IV]

Class 11.......Your DTM is boxed and leaving tomorrow!

Have fun!

[Class 11 streeter]

Thanks Jake. And thanks for making the DTM avaliable again!

Real quick, for anyone on the fence about getting the DTM, just think about going ahead and selling a kidney so you can get your own shroud, you only have to buy it ONCE, and it's yours for life!

[MASSIVE TYPE IV]

No sweat!

I include something extra for all former Marines......You'll like it!

[project73gl]

im chad, live in southern california,mortgage underwriter, fairly new to vw..about 3 years.. had a 62 now have a 69 and building a 73 super to my likings....using the forums to gather useful information(great resource)...strongly considering a type 4...use to be into custom trucks..exmarine(MCAS TUSTIN -GSE)

Jake, i should of gotten into vw a little sooner, back in 98'..could of picked your brain...thinking back i remember you had(i think) a rail shoved in the bed of your white ford..bad timing on my part...

i had duty with you for 30 days in the barracks,right before we both got out...,,,red s10,lowered,rims..Instead of working i was waxing..

congrats on the business..i hear good things...keep it up!

[MASSIVE TYPE IV]

Damn man!

I do remember that truck, I did have a Ford and a Blue Sand Rail....

remember that Closed laundry room on second deck???? That was Jake's engine shop for 2 years!

Send me a PM, I'm sure I'll remember your name!