1970 San Francisco westfalia resto

[K@rlos]

Same as mine, stock 091 ratios. The internals of mine are all heavy duty weddle versions.

interested to know what gears you have in your 091

Pete built Alistair's 090 that i am currently running with the following
1st - 3.80
2nd - 2.06
3rd - 1.26
4th - 0.82
R+P 4.57

I have a spare 091 also.....

 

[K@rlos]

New front pads today, upgraded to some EBC ‘red stuff’

 

[K@rlos]

Went to skeg, drank lots of beer and ate lots of food. Pic courtesy of my missus

 

[K@rlos]

Went vw action, what a fantastic weekend that was! Proper racing event, not a festival with some racing like bugjam.


















Awesome weekend racing my bus, crewing for my mate Dave then going head to head with him. (I lost epically)

 

[K@rlos]

Another cool pic from VW action



Lifting the nose while leaving the lights hard on the nitrous

 

[K@rlos]

End of season bbq and camp out at my workshop.













Nice selections of early bays, Belgian beer, bbq, a pizza oven and grazy dj’d

 

[sparkywig]

Not many vests in attendance this year mate. Looks like you had a good evening.

 

[mcvw]

Not many vests in attendance this year mate. Looks like you had a good evening.

And no manikini's either by the looks of it!

Bummer I missed Grazy's set!!

 

[K@rlos]

Not many vests in attendance this year mate. Looks like you had a good evening.

Oh but there was, the king of vests

 

[K@rlos]

And no manikini's either by the looks of it!

Bummer I missed Grazy's set!!

And no manikini's either by the looks of it!

Bummer I missed Grazy's set!!

Don’t think you’d have liked it, he played old skool drum & bass and jungle. Not hipster stuff

 

[mcvw]

Don’t think you’d have liked it, he played old skool drum & bass and jungle. Not hipster stuff

I'm sure he tucked in a d&b mix of 'combine harvester' for you tractor boyz

 

[K@rlos]

I'm sure he tucked in a d&b mix of 'combine harvester' for you tractor boyz

I’m no Tractor boy, my time is far to precious to waste on the pantomime re branded as football lol.

 

[K@rlos]

My bus has some good company over winter… Steve Wragg (aka Egotrippin on here) has left his awesome patina’d 1970 kombi with me for a full engine rebuild/upgrade on his 2007cc stroker.




Should leave with several more ponies once Hector & myself have had a play

 

[Whistler]

My bus has some good company over winter… Steve Wragg (aka Egotrippin on here) has left his awesome patina’d 1970 kombi with me for a full engine rebuild/upgrade on his 2007cc stroker.

Should leave with several more ponies once Hector & myself have had a play

That sort of comment really excites me and I wonder what could be done with mine

 

[K@rlos]

That sort of comment really excites me and I wonder what could be done with mine

What engine is it?

 

[Whistler]

What engine is it?

I can't really remember. I need to go through my build thread and see if I ever posted it.

I would guess it is a 1776, I remember buying a cam and a lightened fly wheel for it. It also has twin carbs. It was about 9-10 years ago now.

 

[K@rlos]

I can't really remember. I need to go through my build thread and see if I ever posted it.

I would guess it is a 1776, I remember buying a cam and a lightened fly wheel for it. It also has twin carbs. It was about 9-10 years ago now.

A mild 1776 should be 90-100 horsepower. I personally prefer a full weight flywheel on a bus motor, have 1 on my 2276.

 

[Whistler]

A mild 1776 should be 90-100 horsepower. I personally prefer a full weight flywheel on a bus motor, have 1 on my 2276.

I've never had it on a rolling road I trusted.

I did one 03/07/2015 whom I had received really good recommendations on. I got 40.08hp at 4100rpm and 64.23 torque at 2700rpm (I still have the print out).

A few days later, I realised that the throttle cable was loose. Would have thought an expert would have noticed that right?
Now I believe she is running OK (I can get 70mph up hill if I want to) I am going to take it to a place that my brother uses for his race cars to get what I hope is the first true engine check/reading.

 

[K@rlos]

Stripped out egotrippin’s bus this week



Let’s see what we find…

 

[K@rlos]

Another little winter project on the go….



We built a tasty little 1600 for my girlfriends 1960 bug

1600 twin port
Fully balanced and blueprinted
Stock crank, rods & flywheel
26mm Gene berg full flow oil pump
Remote oil filter
Ported 1600 fuel injection heads
Old skool DDS inlet manifolds
Hi Rev single springs
Engle w110 camshaft
Thorsen pieper tool steel lifters
Bugpack 1.25:1 bolt up rockers
Aluminium push rods
8.5:1 compression
Dell’orto drla 40’s
1” 1/2 merged header
Mallory ignition system

Should be good for 85-90hp, perfect for a street driven bug