Not a VW based owner, but such a minor cut should not produce any problems. It looks to be welded up nice and tight. Seats look comfy. Very good.

I’m registered for the hotel, signed up for the Saturday dinner and the winery tour, and registered at Carlisle.

Don’t know if I’ll drive Bridget or the Spyder this year, but I’ll be there.

Copied from the Speedster Owners site:

2018 Carlisle Hotel Reservations

It’s time to book your Hotel reservation for Carlisle 2018 !

The room block count @ 50 rooms for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

I now have a contract with the Hotel in place, the room rate is just $136.00 per night. You are encouraged to book your room now as…[Read more]

Spent the past several days making two six-inch long manifolds to link my fuel pumps—which don’t even work and are strictly for looks. Here’s the very long, lavishly-illustrated story of that.

Here’s what we got now:

These are the instructions Ed posted for photos. They work.

First you go to your own thing. Upper right corner it should say something like “Howdy, Happy Jack.” Click on that and you get a drop-down menu. At the bottom it says “media.” Hover over that with your curser and you should see another drop-down menu with “albums,” “photos” “vi…[Read more]

x3. do not cut there.

Look for ways to trim the bottom inside of the seat instead. With a little luck, you’ll fit.

“Reeks,” though, not “wreaks.”

If something reeks, it stinks.

If it stinks bad enough (say, in a fancy restaurant), it might wreak havoc.

Yet again I have to agree with Paul.  I spent more than a little time on “Diesel submarines” which properly are called “diesel-electric” submarines where our lives depended upon two huge banks of lead acid batteries much like in an automobile except on a very large scale.

There is no magic wand.

Replace the battery and be happy.

Paul is right on.  Unfortunately, new seats is the way to go.

Well, it appears that you have eliminated all the usual suspects.  So let me go to the less than obvious.  I once had a Ranger pickup that did the same thing and it was due to a clogged exhaust.  In my case, a clogged catalytic converter which i doubt you have….just a thought.

Also, the same symptoms of a bad choke?

Yes but, go look under the Christmas tree.  You should have one there.

(Some bicycle pumps would also work.)

Since you have to remove the shocks anyway to get the coil-overs off, why not try the air shocks.  Probably cost less than $150 for both.

Mine is like this too, a little bit. I believe your car is IRS (double-jointed) like mine. Roy is right that the torsion bars are probably a little out of adjustment, and that, in our cars, you can’t get to the caps without unbolting the tub.

I believe that the torsion bar bushings are also the problem. They tend to wear unevenly, and they…[Read more]

Vicenc, have you really gained that much weight?

The most elegant and correct way to fix this requires removal of the tub and adjusting the rear torsion bars…..a big job.

Alternatively, you could install air shock absorbers in the rear.  By not connecting the two shocks together, you would have independent control of them and could put more…[Read more]

Hope everyone had a good one. We froze ourselves at the Eagles game last night.

Long update on the Spyder work. Here we have the tub, aluminum-clad (mostly). Waiting on rivets now and preparing to travel for Christmas. Happy holidays to all!

The accusump that I bought is the small one with only a 1quart capacity. It’s basically used at startup to preoil the system. I push a switch and pressurized oil circulated through the engine. Once started, engine oil pressure refills the unit to be ready for the next startup. As it sits for long periods, there won’t be any dry starts. There are…[Read more]

If you don’t mind, Bill, I can field this question.

The Accusump is an oil accumulator: when your oil pressure is high, the tank fills up with oil. If or when your oil pressure is low, the Accusump injects oil into the engine, raising the oil pressure.

The idea is to prevent oil starvation, which can happen when you’re pulling a lot of G’s in…[Read more]