There are a few cars with bucket seats. On a VW pan-based car, the tunnel spreads out toward the back and makes it hard to fit a wide seat and impossible to move it further back, but you can lean it.

Welcome to the forum, John!

Check the connections before replacing the switch. Grounds are gremlins on TDrs.

Also make sure the car is actually shifted into reverse. When I was putting together my Spyder the backup light gave me a heart attack when it wouldn’t work despite my shifting it into reverse to test. I checked the light, the wires, connections and even the switch…[Read more]

Same hotel. Probably no banquet again this year cuz it’s on me and I have not had the energy to do what I’m supposed to do. Will advise.

What feeds the hot-ignition side of your fuse box?

(By memory; grain of salt) my car has battery + running to the big starter lug, Battery – bolted to the frame and feeding a grounding buss under the dash. Fat red 10g + wire from battery to the key switch at 30, then two wires that test + go from that. The key-on + wire goes to the fuse box to…[Read more]

Weird that it broke. Why would a pulley bolt break while just driving?

Bill!

Congrats, Bill!

Hey Dave, welcome. To post a photo look to the upper right corner of your screen where it says “howdy, Dave.” Put your cursor on that and you get a drop-down menu. The bottom thing is “Media.” Hover over that and you’ll get another menu. The middle choice is “Photos.”

Click it.

That will bring you to a new page. It says “options” and…[Read more]

Welcome to the group, Jim.

And thanks, Bill, for reposting that tutorial.

Glad you found it! Accessing the MC on these cars can be tricky and it’s also true that there as many styles of rig connecting the pedal to the MC as there are TDr manufacturers. My BCW uses a custom length pushrod. I’ve seen some that use two full set of pedals, with the one under the driver’s foot connected to the one at the original VW location…[Read more]

Hey hey!

I think Jack and Royal are both maybes.

Brooklands screens are easy to source but not for $60. Nice score Vicenç.

Ground (GND) to ground. Positive (red, +) to key switched +. Lights are a + wire from the dash lights or the headlight switch. Finally the green or signal wire goes to the negative (-) terminal on you coil. done.

vid: https://youtu.be/BLPhQrOnCCc

Pretty great video, man! Looks like you found the missing set screw.

Nice to see the Bills cooperating!

I did not replace my in-tunnel line but when I installed the Subaru engine I ran new fuel injection hard lines front to back—fuel and return. Since I was not taking the body off the pan I ran the lines through the interior of the car low on the passenger side of the tunnel.

Shocking? Well, actually, that is how Subaru did it:

I ripped out t…[Read more]