Red - Vintage Road Racing '63 Oettinger TSV1300

[bandi]

Wow, nice work. You're an artist!
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'60 Canadian Standard, '64 Bug, '66 Bug, '66 Bus, '69 Sunroof Bug, '71 Super, '72 Super, '73 Canadian Custom, '73 Super, '74 Love Bug, '83 Mexi Bug, '94 Mexi Bug, '99 New Beetle, '02 New Beetle Turbo S. And some Fieros.

[RainierHooker]

A little update from the last week's projects...

I started building a couple rotating assemblies at work starting with two sets of 40 horse rods that needed to be narrowed to fit on later 69mm cranks. One crank is a stock VW crank turned 010/010 and counterweights added by DPR. The other is a forged chromoly 69mm SCAT crank. I was able to fit the little 40 horse rods in the lathe. I buzzed 0.020" of each side of the big ends, aiming for 0.012-0.015" side clearance on the journals:

Then I spent an evening balancing them all, zeroing them out for total weight per set:

[RainierHooker]

On the body front...

After waffling over how I was going to get the drip rail back into a fair shape, I just bit the bullet and grabbed the welder, hammers, dollies, files, and sanding blocks. I hammered the rail mostly back to shape, noting where there were definite stretched spots. Then I carefully and slowly built up the edge with the MIG welder, giving extra time and heat to the stretched areas so they would shrink a bit...

Then the tedious bit started. Using hand files and sanding blocks I buzzed the high spots off of the weld and kept working, with a little light help from a peanut grinder and some hammer work, until the edge was straight and fair again. It took two full evenings...

And finally, I got the inner headliner/roof-support panel welded back in on the inside (sorry no pictures) and finished up to my limited satisfaction the hammer and dolly work on the roof:

Here's a reminder of what I started with:

I'm making a trek down to the body supply shop to pick up mud and primer, and to have some Ruby red mixed up this week. Also I'm going to drop off the driver's door and a pair of driver's side fenders with the blaster so hopefully I can start window and trim removal and paint prep this weekend.

[frenchroast]

Ran across this. Looks like a lot of fun even just to watch.

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[Ochie]

I was wondering if there is any more progress on this build?
I've been thinking about preping my 1963 beetle for track days, then doing some Autocross at the Limerock Park FCP proving grounds. Eventually being able to try some sort of vintage racing.
I've read the GCR for SVRA and the VW sedan class allows upgrades to 1600 dual port and dual carbs with cam free etc. They also don't seem to require a cage just a rollbar. Different organizations seem to have different minimum requirements for the roll bar/ roll cage. HSR, VSCCA, SVRA, etc. If anybody has insight into what group may be friendly to VW type 1 racing I'd sure like to hear.