Greg, If you have a VW front end, Buy a tow bar made for VW’s.  It will only cost about $100 tops new and you will be a happy camper.  I bought one before I bought my car and towed it home.  The tow bars (I’ve seen a few) for old VW Bugs are all almost identical.  They hook on to the lower torsion bar tube and are held on by 2 pins.  Inst…[Read more]

 Paul ,I’m sorry for your loss I remember when my father passed I can feel your sorrow ………Dan

Paul ,
We have never met but i know what its like to loose a parent my dad dyed 3 years ago after a long battle with parkison desiease.I think of him often.

That was the way it was when I got it, there were no heater hoses and the heater outlets off the fan shroud were plugged. On my car, the rounded caps that the hoses should attach to underneath the tin (I don’t know what you call them), where they attach to the heater boxes, do not exactly line up and and the end caps don’t readily slip over them,…[Read more]

It seems logical that if you plug the air going to the heater, you might get more air going thru the oil cooler, but doesn’t just turning off the heat do essentially the same the same thing?  …and since you wouldn’t want heat in the summer anyway, is it necessary to take the hoses off and plug the fan outlets on an engine that runs hot or if…[Read more]

Sounds like fun.  I’m still looking for a trailer for Carisle, maybe I’d get to use it twice.

Paul, Sorry to hear about your Mom.  Lost my dad fews years ago, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Sorry about your Mom, you, and everyone else involved. Basically there is nothing we can say, except to tell you we are here for you.

My car came with the VW tin, and it was put back on after the engine removal/rebuild/reinstall, as recommended by the really good VW mechanic who rebuilt it and from what I have read. I sealed off the gaps between the tin and the body with that same metal heat-resistant tape and it is still sticking on there, so I do have a fairly good seal…[Read more]

BCWs used an adapter to put VW 8-slotters on there. Even with the adapter spacing, they fit fine under the fenders. These wheels are about 15 x 5, pretty much the same size as came on a TD. The 4 x 100 lugs you have (from a Chevette, right) should fit many other wheels from Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai, etc. There are several web sites that list…[Read more]

Very sorry for your loss, Paul. Thank you for sharing the news with the group. We’re all here for you, even if we can’t always be physically present.

Marc, You’re right about VW engineer’s plan for air flow.  I’d be interested in seeing some pictures of how you separated the air flow, upper to lower halves.  But, we won’t know how well it worked for a couple of months. 

I just cut a piece of roofing material (galvalume?) used to cover the top ridge of my house that was left over (I save all kinds of “stuff” thinking I will use it someday) – It has a few slits or openings in it to pass the throttle cable through and the fuel line on the driver’s side, and it was cut large enough to close off the front of the…[Read more]

Guys – my place just off of 95 in Stafford VA can be a good
stopping point if anyone is coming up from the south – just
let me know and we can hook up and drive up together.
Dale

Paul – I just saw this – I was sorry to hear brother –
After loosing my Dad,brother and my best and oldest
childhood friend in the last two years I can feel your
pain.
I have you in my prayers – give me a call or email if you
ever need to talk – it takes lots of time to heal, but you
never really get over loosing someone so close.
Dale dlschu42…[Read more]

My mechanic neighbor picked up a fan to blow over the remote radiator-looking oil cooler.  But finding space for it will be our challenge.
He’s also planning to install an oil temperature gauge.  I have an oil pressure gauge already installed.
One shop wants about $90 for a dog house housing, plus money for the larger fan, total, maybe $150.
I n…[Read more]

Those remote coolers, the coils that look like a little radiator, won’t do much unless there’s a large amount of air running over them, so if you want them to do anything, you need a fan blowing air across them. There’s really not much room or space in the engine compartment for that and you will wind up plumbing it somewhere forward of the engine…[Read more]

 Welcome to the forum. I have a Chevette based BCW TD replica with chrome 14” wheels with holes somewhat like the original MG. They were on the car when I got it and I don’t think they are available now. I’ve seen other BCW’s with steel painted wheels with holes that I think were from a Toyota or possibly Nissian.They use a small center cap that…[Read more]

 Paul, I’m sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. I agree with what Allen said having gone thru the loss of my parents as well as my wife’s parents who were in many ways as close as my own. The memories become special treasures that nothing can take away.

Paul, Sorry to hear about your loss.   You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.