Not mine... But I love it...

[Guest]

Vince you should be in the engine building business, im very envious, i wish i had a fraction of your skills :wink:

top work!

 

[kombiporsche]

Hello all, I left you with my short block done, now the engine is done, just waiting for it's new exhaust which should arrive later this week...

I'll start it for the cam breaking in for the Xmas pupils vacations beacause I have to go back in two days in Paris for work untill this date... and I think I will not have received my exhaust yet...

So I left you with my coil bind settings... I had to make another 3 angles intakes valves job because I was too short before coil bind, so I sent my heads to a good machine shop, because the lack of material does not allow to cut the intake spring bases without going into the intake port.

Here is the old "stone" valve job:

And the new one done on a CNC seats cutter 8)

Valves are 2.5mm down to achieve 3mm before coil bind conbined with the Berg GB281A retainers and GB 273A dual springs.

On the exhaust side, I used the Berg springs cutter because there is enough meat...

I reshaped my chanmbers around the "new" valves seats

done:

New valves job

After that, I did the valve train geometry, using soft Type 4 rocker shafts springs...

Because they were on my old 1775, my push rods were shortened on a lathe, -5mm for the intakes, -4mm for the exhausts ones.

Had to cut my valves covers to clear the rockers

And after that I installed the berg springs, and definitely installed my heads, with some Hylomar under the washers and RTV159 silicon between case & cylinders.

Some glossy paint on the tinware 8) 8)

And the engine is now done, just waiting its pushrods tubes when it will be on my bus (to hard to install when the engine is not tightened on something) and it's new sidewinder exhaust! Some news in December now...

More détails on my blog!

 

[Guest]

8) very tidy!

 

[kombiporsche]

Hello folks,

Here is a big update concerning my bus since the last post, in fact, I've been busy during summer holidays putting together two cool engines for friends one turboed 2007 for a '64 beetle and another Street & Strip 2007 for the '71 orange Beetle. Road trips without internet connection also!

So go back to my bus, with its new 2074 engine, fired up in early january... looking pretty good in the engine bay:

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Engine ran greater than I could expect so I made a new set of 36 vents for my carbs to reach the 7000RPM range...

After some polishing 8)

and being polishing parts, the rims followed!

Some new stacks were installed on the engine to improve the air flow

We're now in march, so it's time to go @ the Volksworld show with some friends, went back in France with a new garsburners wheels set, got ripped of the cookie cutters...

with some 195/65/15 rear tires & 175/50/15 front.

In order to make some passes at the Bug Show, I installed some good seat belts

My bus was almost ready for the summer!

I planned my first trip going from my brittany to Spa, making some runs out there and back to home...

Cool trip! Didn't had to play with tools, just to remove my belt!

3 cool vids!

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Go back in France without any problem :msn4: and I decided to remove the engine to check the end play and others small things after this "break in" trip!

Just the clutch disc slipped at WOT so I ordered a good ACE copperhead unit!

:msn4:

:mrgreen:

Some new paint on the engine tins and go back in the bus for the second summer trip!

This time, I decided to go in the south of France,

@ --->

We took appart the front and rear beams made a new narrowed beam and adjustable rear spring plates...

All the job was done in 2 days, thanks Vintage Autohaus team! All ball joints, shocks, bearings .... have been changed!

Stef making my new narrowed beam

Can you see the new Vintage Autohaus dropped spindles?

here is the new stance of my bus!

The last mod I made is on my CB crossbar linkage, my hex bar was chewed by the ball ends screwed on the air filters bases...

I did the mod putting some small bearings, haven't tested it yet but I think it will be smooth and indestructible

I took my hex bar and drilled the original holes (don't know the diameter as it is as US measurement) of the aluminum pieces to 6.75mm to fit some bigger M8 screws to really tighten them on the hex bar.

I turned the M8 screws to have a conical end to turn them into pressing screws.

After that, I bored the hex bar to fit those small bearings

....and pressed them in with a small Bloc Press drop

After that, I turned the ball ends shafts to the bearings inside diameter

I think this would have worked great, but I decided to go on another route by making my own end pieces.

The last modification has been the air filter base that didn't allowed to put the M8 screw, so I milled the cast rib.

So now you know all about my bus, just waiting some bumpers overriders bought @ Slough last month!

Next update, next year :!: :lol:

 

[easy]

Quailty work dood, quality work 8) I take my hat off to your machining talent 8)

 

[dubscum]

:shock: WOW ! amazing work, very clean and you van is very very cool 8)

 

[EgoTrippin]

Awesome work

Must be amazing to fabricate custom parts for your engine like that 8)

What is the advantage of running two breather boxes (the CB one on the oil filler and the one mounted on the fan shroud)?

 

[kombiporsche]

None :lol:

Just that my old 1775 on Alum case needed this setup to breathe correctly (I didn't opened between cylinders also).

Stock alum case, not really helpful for a good breathing...

I just reinstalled this setup on my new engine based on mag case and reworked between cylinders to improve breathe...

Big difference isn't it?

I think it would have just needed the small box or the CB tower but the fan shroud already had the holes drilled in from my former engine.

Note that Fill the engine with oil with the CB tower is a lot easier than with the OEM oil filler.

bye

viNce

 

[EgoTrippin]

Cool Vince 8)

I've got the CB breather tower and a Bugpack breather sat on the shelf in the garage. Just wondering whether to install them both on my stock 1600sp this winter?

BTW the new stance looks awesome.

 

[kombiporsche]

Install the CB one, filling the engine will be a Kid game.

 

[kombiporsche]

"New look" for 2010 season, swapped the little Marchall's fog lights for some nice US overriders 8)

My own overrriders spacers repros

The nice overrriders rubbers repros from lhu128l

Is it nice??

 

[dubscum]

very 8)

 

[Grazy]

Is it nice??

Er yeah Vince , Its my personal favourite Panel van on the VW Scene - AWESOME 8) Top Work

 

[kombiporsche]

Hello all, some updates of my bus!

With it's new narrowed beam

New US bumpers overriders

In order to have the full 4.3" narrowed beam, Vintage-Autohaus drilled my front discs to Porsche pattern to replace my 20mm adaptors.

Installed them early this summer.

Had to narrow my hub caps.

Before/after

Porsche caps now installed

Cruised nice this early summer, a few days before Spa, my oil pressure regulator got stuck in the case and I exploded my oil cooler on the morning start

So went to spa without my bus :evil:

Back at home, pulled the engine...

With the engine out, cleaned my carbs...

Got bigger needle valves

On the engine itself, pulled all tinware

Faulty oil cooler seal...

Faulty oil plunger...

Bare tins

New stock oil plungers

Modified the oil pump "à la Berg"

oil is now on all the pinion lenght

When I heard that a friend made 165hp with the same heads approx the same valve train and cr but hardly reworked mani's, I reworked a "little" more my manifolds!

Before ont the left after on the right

The two done with polishing

Sent all my tinware to my friend Franck aka 2S-Koncept for a hammered paint. New paint on the rear bumper after he made a mold for a home made fiberglass repro.

Back on the engine....

New oil cooler, and new by pass Gene Berg oil pump cover to avoid another oil cooler explosion...

Re-setted the rockers play...

New long pulley bolt

Reinstalled the freshly painted tins

And back in the bus!

nice isn't it???

 

[Loxy]

nice isn't it???

Yes. 8)

 

[kombiporsche]

Some other pics

 

[gninnam]

Love your thread - makes me so jealous the work you have done/can do :mrgreen: