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draven898
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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject: what were you thinking thread !!! |
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| i recently asked someone about a part for my build and when i stated i was using chevy triple's with an fk87 a very reputable builder questioned why ! now im not calling in doubt at all his expertise in the vw area but my friends and i have been building motors our own way for 20 plus years and never had and failures so if it works why fix it ? what are some things you have done and been questioned on ? |
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&Dan
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Wandered into VWs in the first place....what a balloonhead.
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Whats a chevy triple???
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Dale M. wrote: | Whats a chevy triple???
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modok
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triple valve springs
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spencerfvee
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: what were you thinking thread !!! |
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i think theres a full moon out tonight or people are just bored.there sure is nothing on TV lol over the years i have built motors my way too . every one builds a motor there way ( if you dont belive me just read all the fourms on samba on the best motors lol ) and every ones motor is the best motor ever built lol . it would be very boring if we all built the same kind of motor lol. just think we would not have the blow ups and name calling and put downs on samba over who knows more about building motors and lets not for get evert or glen having to come in on a forum and tell every one .cant we all just get along or clean it up lol lol and for the year 2011 the number one thing people can not agree on .is picking the right cam for a vw motor . number is 2 is are kadron carbs junk or the best carbs you ever put on a vw motor . number 3 is are 009s junk or are 019s or 010s the best dizys ever made that one will fire people up if you say 019s and 010s are junk belive me when i say that lol . the list can go on and on . ok how in the hell did you get chevy triples on a air cooled vw motor ?? lol that would be a first . spencerfvee | draven898 wrote: | | i recently asked someone about a part for my build and when i stated i was using chevy triple's with an fk87 a very reputable builder questioned why ! now im not calling in doubt at all his expertise in the vw area but my friends and i have been building motors our own way for 20 plus years and never had and failures so if it works why fix it ? what are some things you have done and been questioned on ? |
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I wasn't. I try to avoid it at all cost.
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tattooed_pariah
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: what were you thinking thread !!! |
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| draven898 wrote: | | i recently asked someone about a part for my build and when i stated i was using chevy triple's with an fk87 a very reputable builder questioned why ! now im not calling in doubt at all his expertise in the vw area but my friends and i have been building motors our own way for 20 plus years and never had and failures so if it works why fix it ? what are some things you have done and been questioned on ? |
you wanna see a flame war... do a Volksrod build and then brag about it here... or even funner, do a samba stock build and brag about it on the Hamb... 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:10 am Post subject: Re: what were you thinking thread !!! |
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| spencerfvee wrote: | | i think theres a full moon out tonight or people are just bored.there sure is nothing on TV lol over the years i have built motors my way too . every one builds a motor there way ( if you dont belive me just read all the fourms on samba on the best motors lol ) and every ones motor is the best motor ever built lol . it would be very boring if we all built the same kind of motor lol. just think we would not have the blow ups and name calling and put downs on samba over who knows more about building motors and lets not for get evert or glen having to come in on a forum and tell every one .cant we all just get along or clean it up lol lol and for the year 2011 the number one thing people can not agree on .is picking the right cam for a vw motor . number is 2 is are kadron carbs junk or the best carbs you ever put on a vw motor . number 3 is are 009s junk or are 019s or 010s the best dizys ever made that one will fire people up if you say 019s and 010s are junk belive me when i say that lol . the list can go on and on . ok how in the hell did you get chevy triples on a air cooled vw motor ?? lol that would be a first . spencerfvee |
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andk5591
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Had been asked that at least a dozen times when I was building it - but only once when I was done.
And to the OP - How are you doing that? I had seen a couple pics with a pair mounted kind of like normal duals, with the third on the center. Have no idea how well it works. Post some pics if you have them.
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draven898
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ok let me address a few things
1. my intention was not start a flame war ! i was simply saying " hey have you ever done something on an engine build and what you thought was common, someone said "what were you thinking !!!"
2. if you've never heard of chevy triple springs on heads you probably have never used much in the way of high performance
3. fk87= engle fk87 camshaft |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| andk5591 wrote: | Had been asked that at least a dozen times when I was building it - but only once when I was done.
And to the OP - How are you doing that? I had seen a couple pics with a pair mounted kind of like normal duals, with the third on the center. Have no idea how well it works. Post some pics if you have them. |
Wow! Very nice job on that one! Tough to pull something like that off and have it look 'right'.
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shano63
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There were a few remarks trhrown around after I posted this....
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andk5591
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| draven898 wrote: | ok let me address a few things
1. my intention was not start a flame war ! i was simply saying " hey have you ever done something on an engine build and what you thought was common, someone said "what were you thinking !!!"
2. if you've never heard of chevy triple springs on heads you probably have never used much in the way of high performance
3. fk87= engle fk87 camshaft |
You kind of omitted the word "spring" or specified that the thread was engine specific. Makes a little difference - you knew what you were thinking, but we didn't. I was kind of wondering how the cam cam into play with the carb selection.  And triple carbs had me scratching my head particularly since they would be pretty large unless the engine was huge.
And thanks Levi - took a lot of planning. Of course some guys walk by it and say - "yeah - its just a kit".
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mgamike
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| Andk, it might have been just a kit, but somebody had to do it. It looks sharp and I'm glad you put that kind of effort into it. If anybody ever asks again, "Why did you build it?" just tell them that the real Woodie got smashed up in the front and you had a spare Beetle front end, so you joined them together. Then ask if he can see where the Ford begins and the VW ends. It'll have him going. |
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modok
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| draven898 wrote: | ok let me address a few things
1. my intention was not start a flame war ! i was simply saying " hey have you ever done something on an engine build and what you thought was common, someone said "what were you thinking !!!"
2. if you've never heard of chevy triple springs on heads you probably have never used much in the way of high performance
3. fk87= engle fk87 camshaft |
I guess triple springs aren't real common anymore 
The most common example I can think of is a lot of old school engine builders who would use an engle 130 and 9.5-1cr in a little 1835 grocery getter......... the armchair experts are baffled..........and I admit it seems insane to use a race cam in a little street motor, but the question is not if it works but rather "why does it work?" because sometimes..........it works grreat
I don't get much flak for the weird stuff I build, it's uniformly odd enough that most people don't have a lot of questions, maybe they don't know where to begin
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| &Dan wrote: | | Wandered into VWs in the first place....what a balloonhead. |
I got married....
(The title could be fine tuned a little.)
After all the gossip had died down a few years later, I found out that she was cuuhh-raise-IE! 
I haven't stepped in that pile of shit in almost ten years now.... I shoulda' listened when they said that it was a mistake... 
I ended up with a much newer and sportier, exotic/foreign model, performance drop-top for the old broken down trade-in... been Sunday driving ever since, eight years strong now this February. And very happily too, I may add.
As fare as engines go (and flame wars too).... the 20/50 does it every time.
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There is already an abortions thread...
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| MinamiKotaro wrote: | | Dale M. wrote: | Whats a chevy triple???
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No, You could call that a triple (like triple 94's, 97's etc) but mainly thats called Tri-power.
And the "fk87" should have helped you, its a cam. So hes talking about valve springs.
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