I am ready to have my engine rebuilt. should I put my money in cams pistons e ct. or get a basic 1600 engine and add a turbo.I do not know how well the tubo works in a vw or they kill the engine . the car is for weekends any suggestions or experiences

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It sickens me to see him still trolling RAMVA for new victims. Here's an e-mail I got from a recent victim. Newbs read his posts on RAMVA and just read enough to think he's good at restorations, but do not read further to see Mario's history. "Hey there, I was reading around on the samba, and...

I was reading my Jan 08 Hot VW mag at the type 2 nose job and was looking at the before picture with the caption below that says "there was no way of pounding all that damage outand keeping it straight with out the use of body filler. Well here on the east coast we don't have many rust/dent free...

Hi all Just got a 72 regular beetle and am evaluating what needs to be done. It will need floors, heater channels and one of the door post bottoms will need to be reconstructed. The engine/tranny is in very good shape. Along the tunnel a lip exists that one normally welds the floor pans to. On...

While I'm at it, I have a VDO CHT gauge and a bunch of VDO sensors (sparkplug type) and also a CB mixture gauge. I have no use for any of that stuff any more with the Soobey in Bussy. Make me an offer. - BaH

Here is the situation. In the Summer of 2009 we installed an Interstate battery that we got from Sam's. In warm or above freezing weather it cranks just fine. When it is below freezing, sometime the starter makes a little grrr sound or nothing at all. On another vehicle with an Interstate...

Some of you might remember me, John. I had two Bugs and a kit car. One of the Bugs was a '58 I bought from Mikah. Well, it is like coming back from somewhere else to be posting here and I hope I am welcome to do some more. After a couple heart attacks and other health interruptions, I finally...

Got the following message from AOL. Been on Ramva for 8 Years Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005. For members using AOL over a dial-up connection, you will no longer be able to access Newsgroups. If you have a separate high-speed connection, you...

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The whole lower back end had to be replaced along with an...

just joined up on the newsgroup so sayin hi got a 1970 beetle that i am starting to work on in the near future .. likely will end up with a lot of questions .. hehe

Hi all for a while now, I have been toying with the idea of making a beetle pickup for me to use for work. It would be more or less a 'standard' pickup design, but with a roof rack capable of carrying full 8x4 sheets . It will probably take me a year (or more) to complete.

I've got a '75 bus with a '78 engine in it. It's had a recent tune-up and is a good, strong engine with great compression numbers. But from time to time it 'clacks' loudly upon start-up and initial running and doesn't 'mellow down' to a quieter purr. I recently left the country for 2 months and,...

Hi! My name is Tomislav Ivanda and I live in Zagreb, Croatia. I am 29 years old and I simply love Beetles.I have 2 of them. I own ' 67 1300 Export model (year of production iz 1966.) that is my every day car (daily driver), and another ' 67 which is 1200 Standard model, and that is a kind of a...

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2454590740101866121wYtFRS http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2648975040101866121aaDClY This is my 64 beetle after 8+yrs of being a daily driver and as you can see the quality of work has held up extremely well. It was wrecked hard in the front, bad enough...

This morning my new shifter bushing that I installed last weekend evidently failed. When shifting into gear, I felt a jolt and suddenly the stick was loose and sloppy as before. Has anyone experienced this? What happens to the bushing. Will it require removing the rod again? -- Randall...

> Sure is quiet here, or maybe it's my news server. Y'all okay out there? i'm okay. just lurking once in awhile. yeah, like i post so much anyway :) since you are "bored"...... son pulled engine out of his 73 bus along with the tranny, tore it down to the long block, tightened the bolts for the...

.. . . and sometimes she doesn't. In this case, she was in a good mood. Re-charged the old e-can with new activated charcoal, re-mounted it with new hoses. No problem, I now have the Wonderbus back to its original 1971 CA emissions setup. Hardly a job worth bragging about, but for me, anything...