I’ve a tea kettle on a shelf in my basement room. Slightly used.

Now that’s pretty dang cool! Where’s the tea kettle?

Bill, wouldn’t fuel starvation show itself at WOT instead of “mid-range part throttle?”

I think your problem is in the transition from the primary jets to the secondaries and, if I had to bet a waffle breakfast, I’d guess the primaries come in too soon/too rich and there’s your midrange stumble.

That and/or spark curve. Do you know advance at…[Read more]

This morning I stripped the fuel delivery system from the car. There was a mid range, part throttle, stumble that wasn’t affected by making adjustments. I feel I need MORE FUEL!!! I’ll have a larger capacity fuel pump tomorrow and will install with larger fuel lines. The only restriction left in the system will be the supply line built into the…[Read more]

Roy, that was a great video. Ah, to have all that equipment and, not to mention, all that time.

Jack, my wipers always parked to the left. Do different VW wiper motors park differently?

Now you get to play with the adjustment screw on the arm and get them to park flat.

Well-done, Bill.

And Jack—you’re no slouch either.

But the real kings of “if it don’t fit, re-engineer it” are these guys. Link is to the video of them making the wipers work on their Mini. The hell of it is, they DID fit!

It’s my guess that ManyPenny feels better balanced on the road, than does Emma. Now that you have both configurations, what are your feelings?

Congratulation on finishing this stage of your build. (They’re never done)

Ok. In mounting the fenders I couldn’t get them off the tires. It seems the shock manufacturer moved the location of the threads that held the adjustable lower spring perch. Even cranked up to its limits the tires rubbed.

A local race car shop was able to supply a longer spring, but everything snowballs, the lower control arms had to come off …[Read more]

Congrats on getting back on the road.

Glad the new car’s running good for you, Jack.

It was fine at 3-4 grand. Flog it at 6. It was the sustained 7 that did it in.

Keep in mind it was cammed and ran a 4 barrel carb. The cam came on at about 2,500.

I’ll let Bill answer but pretty sure he usually shifted at 8,000 rpm whether it needed it or not.

Great news. I’m glad to see it up and running.

I can’t remember how I got mine to work. I remember it was an accident, so probably I grounded the wire to the GEN light or something.

Again, this was the Subaru engine (and alternator).

If I knew what to do I’d tell you. When I don’t know what to do I just Google and then start, ya know, trying…[Read more]

I think you need to excite the field windings in your alternator. I had the same symptom when I put the Suby in Bridget.

Here’s a vid showing how it’s done with a Delco GM one.

Here’s a Samba discussion on topic for our stuff:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/archive/index.php/o-t–t-488081–.html

And yeah, don’t use LEDs for everything…[Read more]

Now that WOULD be different.