Make sure the shop uses DOT grade windows.  My first one was built by a top shop that mostly does boats and they aren’t designed to handle road speeds.  Tell us about the speeding ticket, brother.  Were you having more fun than the law allows?

Can I rebuild it or do we just buy a reman these days?

Yep.  85 mph@4000 rmp.  Sure ticks off the t bucket boys when they get passed by Victoria.  Leaving Yellowstone with my son on a road trip we did just that and he replied by roaring by at such high speed that Vicky twiched sideways.  Bill Cosby is right . . . VWs are afraid of trucks.

The tins separate the top from the bottom and force the cool air from the top through the engine and out the bottom.  Without the tim, it sucks back up and through again, thereby trying to cool the engine with hot air.  I had a local bug shop bolt on used bits and pieces and fill in with sheetmetal.  It made a vast different in the running temps.  

Sam’s Club and such places sell 2 1/2 ” memory foam pads to put over regular mattresses.  A twin would probably do two sets of seats and might be a good replacement for the old low-density stuff that came in the kits.

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I found an electric pump that naturally ran at 3 – 5 psi at Checker Auto Parts for about $35.  That fixed my fuel problem and the vapor locking caused by ethanol.  It mounts in the front with the tank and is a really simple fix.

But the engine compartment on the kit car isn’t shaped like a beetle . . . so . . . big holes.  I broke down and used BC Autowerks in Ogden UT.  They provided stock parts and some creative handcrafted parts for the gaps and the . . .  what? . . . firewall?

Thanks for the feedback. 

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