Bostig RG1 install group....anyone? Also RG2 etc!

JudoJeff · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 4:41 am Post subject:

More on the mating of the engine and transmission. I'm using a #22 install manual, I don't have anything newer. So there are FOUR bolts to mate these. I have a note in my manual, which I wrote in after the parts arrived, that there was no stud in the upper driver's side position. Spoke to The Man, and a 100mm bolt and nut are now used in that location. Makes sense. Anyway, just in case someone else is as dense as I am, hope this helps!

kourt, like the idea of cruise control, but if I add anything else to this project, it'll be snowing again before I can drive it!
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

DeanZimmer · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:54 am Post subject:

JudoJeff · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:30 am Post subject:

The good news is I installed the Zetec and tranny into the Westy.

The bad news is I spent the night barfing and I'm too sick to do any work.
There's two kinds of flu going around: one makes you cough for 5 weeks, this other one seems to empty you out from both ends. Ughhh!
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

kourt · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:30 am Post subject:

I had a close call like that during my install. The wife got sick--so I just spent more time in the van. I even considered sleeping out there, but messing with routine creates more problems.

I am still working on an over fueling situation with my Bostig conversion. I am pretty sure it is a small leak in the fuel pressure regulator diaphragm, and will test that at lunch today.

Muffler update: I returned the Magnaflow (inlet was too big), and ordered the Walker 17904. The remainder of my AC fittings are arriving this week, and I'm almost done with all the things that require me to crawl under the van--a goal I have been looking forward to for some time.

kourt

JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:06 am Post subject:

kourt

My A/C fittings are due in today or tomorrow, we must be on parallel paths!

I slept 14 hours straight and I'm able to eat something, but not picking up a wrench until I'm 100%. Too easy to screw things up even when I'm feeling OK.
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:08 am Post subject:

Question for everyone:

I have what appears to be a vacuum line going from the engine bay all the way to the front, entering the dash by the passenger side headlight. Does anyone know what it's for? I'd hate to cut it and find out it connects the FrimFram to the Flapadoodle Gearing. I think it came off a silver dashpot looking device on the engine, but I don't know for sure.
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

dobryan · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:17 am Post subject:

Does it connect to the brake booster on the back of the master cylinder?
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JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:51 am Post subject:

Dave,
I have no idea where it goes.
Jeff
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

kourt · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:55 am Post subject:

If it's a very stiff, black, vinyl tubing, it goes to the brake booster.

You need to connect that to the intake manifold with a check valve inline. See page 74 of the installation manual.

kourt

kourt · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:01 am Post subject:

Spectre intake update:

Use the Bostig standard air box first. It will work better with the default tune file Bostig sends. You want this standard setup to make initial troubleshooting more consistent.

I'm saying this because I'm having an over fueling problem and the Spectre intake is a suspect that we are ruling out at this time. Once I've got a good run with the default air box done, Bostig might offer a special tune to accommodate the Spectre intake.

I don't want my little mod to be the pariah of Bostig's existence.

Here's some photos of my install:

Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.

This is the Spectre install without the heat shield jacket.

Here it is with the jacket.

kourt

JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:17 am Post subject:

kourt,
Thanks for the answer but the vacuum brake booster line going to the Intake Manifold is maybe twice the diameter of this line. That one I understand, and it's also on the opposite side of the van.

This runs down the passenger side past the radiator and enters underneath the dash near the passenger side headlight. Maybe came from the charcoal canister? No one has run into this?
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

kourt · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:38 am Post subject:

That could be a vacuum assisted cruise control line. If your van ever had cruise control of this type, such a line would be necessary.

kourt

JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:03 pm Post subject:

kourt,

you're a lifesaver! (well, some kind of candied mint.....) Yes, I did have cruise control! Can I just cut it off, or do I have to block it off, too?
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

DeanZimmer · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:06 pm Post subject:

Mine had cruise control and the hard plastic line that you mention sounds like exactly that, it was from the cruise.
I just taped it off and left it thinking it may have a place in some future cruise control I might install.

Dean

sailboat100 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:11 pm Post subject: spectre intake

Kourt
I was really bummed out when i read your comments about the bostig tune not beeing compatible with the spectre intake. The bostig intake mods seem like a pita and was planning on going the spectre route. maybe Bostig will get a tune for it soon. My engine is about ready to go in. Thanks for all your input here.
Brian

kourt · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:28 pm Post subject:

Howdy,

Well, we haven't totally convicted the Spectre intake of the over fueling problem yet. Frankly, my last data log (taken during lunch today) shows over fueling still, even with the standard Bostig intake (or, I'm not reading the logs properly, but I believe it still shows a +10% long term fuel trim condition).

I'm going to have to open up the fuel system and look for blockages soon if this keeps going on.

I think you'll be fine with the Spectre in the long run, but Bostig really wants to have a consistent setup. I'm sure if any of us ran a business with a standard to uphold we would ask for the same.

kourt

JudoJeff · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:33 pm Post subject:

DeanZimmer, Thanks, I'll do just that.

sailboat100,
We can't expect Bostig to adjust for things that we add to our install that they didn't develop. They don't know anything about the modifications, and how it affects the system. They can only back up the system as they designed it. It would become a Pandora's Box of endless changes....

Bostig isn't against trying new mods, but you have to expect to deal with it on your own.
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

sailboat100 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:03 pm Post subject: Engine cover

I was going to don the engine heat shield tonight but I dont think I got the ceramic fabric. I got the aluminun wire and the aluminum plate but no fabric. What does the fabric look like?
Thanks Brian

sailboat100 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:20 pm Post subject: posts

why are my posts coming up twice?

JudoJeff · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:15 am Post subject:

Brian,
Don't know why your posts duplicate duplicate duplicate themselves.....

The ceramic looks like a white piece of foam, not what you'd expect.

Jeff
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)


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