Thanks, I may need that site with the jet kit later on.  I also upgraded to a Carter 4070 fuel pump and with a quick tune with guidance from a Weber site ,(Redline), it runs so good that I’m going to tackle another project, new water hoses.  The summers here in Arkansas get too hot to trust to 24 year old rubber!
     For me, half the fun is…[Read more]

Hey Budd,
What manufacturer made your kit? Sometime the OEM (Repro) parts are not a bolt-on to these kits.
I can tell you on the British Coach Works TD replica they are indeed bolt on. Not so sure about the FiberFab (CMC) and other kits.
If your kit takes OEM hardware, then my suggestion is to “google” some British or MG car clubs and call MG…[Read more]

Evening,
I have only driven my car about 3 blocks. Yes steering is a little tight left and right. I haven’t checked the toe in or camber adjustment.
Before I adjusted the adjusters they were at the very bottom of the slot. Now I have the set 2 teeth up from the bottom and 7 teeth from the top. To me it appears a little high but I want to drive it…[Read more]

Glad everything is A-OK on your ride. Is the steering stiff in both directions (left and right)?
How is the alignment of the ride height adjusters now? Parallel? Are both sets of torsion leaves working?
Great idea to place the sign in you car at the Bug-In. The Northeast has a couple large VW Bug based events. One is at Maple Grove Dragway about…[Read more]

Morning Pink MG,
 
I was finally able to finish putting everything back together. I still can?t say why that upper beam would not rotate with everything bolted together but as soon as I unhooked the ball joints from both spindles it rotated smoothly.
I did have the ?German? made ball joints pressed in and it does drive better. It is still a…[Read more]

All right guys and Gals
Anybody else coming besides Paul and myself?
Let us all know

Great news! A fuel cell is a good investment for a kit car.
I am assuming you are using the Holley/Weber progressive 2 barrel carb. I found a website that sells jets and other small parts in a kit for them. I bought one of them. You can really dial in the jetting if you want get “super finiky”.
Happy Motoring

Most of these vendors do not realize that it’s good business to keep you happy. When you had a ligitimate gripe, he should have made good just to keep his good name.
When you tell people that a vendor treated you right, they tend to use that vendor. It surely wasn’t worth losing you as a customer and you telling others about your bad experience f…[Read more]

Evening Pink MG,
 
From some comments that were made at last years ?Bug In? at the Ennis, Texas drag strip I think the allow anyone as long as it is V.W. powered.
 
I have one little problem, one of the main sponsors of the club is the local parts supplier (Black Gold) that would not honor a bad part that I was sold.
 
I have purchased the ma…[Read more]

If that VW club doesn’t mind kit cars, then by all means you should join. I’ll bet there is a wealth of VW knowledge in that club.
Used to be true that the Carlisle Import/Kit Replicar Nationals had many VW vendors that showed up to peddle their wares. The last show I attended a few years ago had only a couple VW vendors. Seems that most of the k…[Read more]

Evening Pink MG,
I received my ?German Manufactured? ball joints today and hopefully will start tearing the front axle back apart by Thursday.
 
I used black electrical tape to hold the leaves together as I inserted them. You could see all the leaves held together when the center pinch bolt was removed. I suspect I may have the leaves not…[Read more]

Bummer
It gets a little tricky guiding the torsion leaves through that square hole in the adjuster. I used some painters tape (blue) to hold the leaves together until I got them through the adjuster.
I then “eyeball” centered the leaves in the tubes and finger tightened the snub bolts after adjusting them where I wanted them making sure the leaf…[Read more]

No I didn?t. I actually think something is binding in the upper tube.
 
I took the upper tube ?pinch? bolt out and it appears the torsion springs rotated toward the bottom of the tube. I was unable to reinstall the ?pinch? bolt. I was able to remove and reinstall the ?pinch? bolt in the lower tube. (This is with the car jacked up.)
 
I have a…[Read more]

Did you get the ride height to adjust???

Hi Mark ..Hi Paul ..Really sorry I missed the “Last Hoorah” dinner at Pepe’s Rest Saturday night …My Daughter (#2) that lives in Florida  decides that she and my Grand Daughter are arriving at Newark at  six thirty and needed a pick-up from the Airport ..So it was no din din for me..So how did it go…send me an run down what I missed …if ya…[Read more]

10-4 Schu…you’re 100% right. I had completely forgotten that at highway cruise speeds, the front fenders catch air and make the front end feel “light”.
I didn’t drive my VW based ride much on the open road, but when I did, the front end did exactly what dbar and you you described.
Thanks for catching that!

Okay,
Thanks for the information. I was afraid I was needing to remove the control arms inorder to make it move. That was more work than I wanted to do if it wasn’t necessary.
Bill

Mark,
I have followed your instructions w/ the beam etc. – been there did that – I think Dave was just saying the front end felt light a high speeds. When I added the weight up front it was all stuff I wanted to do anyway and it helped keep the front down at speed – mine feels quite good at most any speed. The skidding I feel sometimes in front is…[Read more]

Correct, moving the serated plates “up” should rotate the torsion plates so that it pushes the trailing arms toward the ground, thereby raising the front ride height.
I suspect that the sway bar is the culprit. Disconnect it, at least where it anchors to the beam and the trailing arms should drop as you raise the car.
If the sway bar, shocks and…[Read more]

Morning Pink MG,
Yes the car was jacked up and it is supposed to be an “up” adjustable axle. When I installed everything originally the pinch bolts and adjusters plates are at the bottom of the adjusting slot/axle.
In my mind the pinch bolt and the adjuster plates need to rotate upward toward the top of the adjusting slot/axle, is this…[Read more]