Hello Patrick
Ian ‚crivait … Patrick, dans: Re: Volksies, ce mois #01-15-97:
PK> I've owned a 69 VW whih I restored, and now I own a 55 VW with the
PK> oval window, I love VWs and love to talk about them so talk away
IB> One of my friend's sisters was just GIVEN a totally restored 1966-69
IB> (somewhere in there) VW Beetle.  It looks brand new, it's so nice.
 I've owned a 72 Super Beetle...Got it new.  $1956.65 I think...
It died 16 YEARS later, because a telephone post got in my way. |-))
 Accident because of snow...  |,-(
  The odo was at MINIMUM 169,000 miles !!
 The engine was never "machined".
  The only major work I did was ( at about 99,000 miles ),
 Open the engine, (oil was leeking) and change the seals, and
change the inserts of the crank and cam shafts, and the piston rings.
  With the 20W50 Castrol oil I used, you could still see the honing
marks in the cylinders. Yes! I know what I'm talking about...  |-)
  I changed oil every 2000 miles, because the magazine `Hot Volks
& dune buggies' said: "With an air cooled engine, there are hot
spots in the engine. And they "harm" the oil, more. So, change
oil at 2000 miles intervals, you won't regret."
  ... I know that !!!
  At about 32,000 miles, after the waranty was over, I installed:
- High lift rocker arms. ( It's like a high lift cam ).
- Two barrel carb. ( As the `Hot-Vlks & dune buggies' magazine told:
  special intake manifold, and Ford's 1949-to-1954  2bbl carb )
- The "header type" exhaust ( To make a greater gases flow out, because
  of rockers, and more air with 2 bbl and intake... ).
- High capacity oil pump ( To make sure to compensate for more HPs ).
- I also installed 2 air filters: My old '65 Volks one, and the
  1972 Super Beetle original. Routing done with plastic tubing, for
homes, and flexible hoses for cloth driers...
- Installed: Oil pressure gage, tachometer, Ampmeter.
 And I could "eat" the Datsun 510s and the Toyotas !!
  6,100-6,200 RPM in 1st, and 2nd ...
 Had Assymetric Michelins on it, from 33,000 miles up. What a ride !!
  They went to 106,000 miles. After that: Pirelli...
  In 16 years, you "play" a lot with a car...
  Sooooo... How many, how long, what year Beetles you got ?
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  See you L8R, and
... Qapla' !  OÄð  ÷÷÷÷ÄÄÄÄ (  o*) Lieutenant jr. Jean.
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