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EA812 Samba Member
Joined: December 07, 2008 Posts: 1223 Location: North central, CT
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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The car was already a sleeper, it's a 1600 but says 1300 on the deck lid. Nobody suspected a thing 😁😆
These were Nipon P&Cs. when I got the car they came with one of the boxes of parts. NOS but they were stored outside so had some rust on them and I just ran em as is. They actually look pretty good still. The heads were acquired in a trade of VW videos originally from a junk yard motor. _________________ Project 66 Daily Driver http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=538786&highlight=
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EA812 Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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So no progress to report . 😕
I ordered a set of if heads in January and got nothing but stories. The Terrivile Bug A Fair is in a few days and there is no way in hell this will be together for it or probably this season now . I lost motivation to even bother at this point but them heads are not coming. It was a scam . I ordered them from a company that has a bad reputation, thought I would give them a chance but got screwed instead. Currently going through PayPal to recoup my money. _________________ Project 66 Daily Driver http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=538786&highlight=
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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The Terrivile Bug A Fair is in a few days and there is no way in hell this will be together for it or probably this season now |
How about some motivation, EA?
Back in the summer 2004, my '70 Fastback engine was completely apart the week before The Type 3 Invasion at Hershey, PA. Starting that Monday evening, I thrashed the remaining days after work to get it back together and installed. The day before I drove off, went for a 20 mile "shakedown" drive on local roads and highway. Adjusted the valves very early the next morning before leaving, and it made the 3 hr trip there* (and back) with no problems. But by the time I started the reassembly, my heads were already clean and the cylinders lapped into the combustion chambers. I had already converted the engine to dual carbs.
You have a few days less to do the work, but less work overall because you only have the engine down to the short block.
*Air-Cooled Head's photo from that event; mine's the 3rd one back on the left row.
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EA812 Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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Rome wrote: |
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The Terrivile Bug A Fair is in a few days and there is no way in hell this will be together for it or probably this season now |
How about some motivation, EA?
Back in the summer 2004, my '70 Fastback engine was completely apart the week before The Type 3 Invasion at Hershey, PA. Starting that Monday evening, I thrashed the remaining days after work to get it back together and installed. The day before I drove off, went for a 20 mile "shakedown" drive on local roads and highway. Adjusted the valves very early the next morning before leaving, and it made the 3 hr trip there* (and back) with no problems. But by the time I started the reassembly, my heads were already clean and the cylinders lapped into the combustion chambers. I had already converted the engine to dual carbs.
You have a few days less to do the work, but less work overall because you only have the engine down to the short block.
*Air-Cooled Head's photo from that event; mine's the 3rd one back on the left row.
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That's and amazing story, and I bet someone there this weekend will be doing that!
As for me I never ordered a single other part once I got wise to the scam on the cylinder heads let alone another set of heads. I tried to stay positive thinking they were coming one day....... no communication from the seller since April. _________________ Project 66 Daily Driver http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=538786&highlight=
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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Glad you are doing some work on the engine, even if it's 1/2 year after your last post. Last time I laid hands on an engine project was Sept. 2021...
In your engine case photo above, is that just a loosely fitting dust shield at the crank pulley area which will be removed when you fit the pulley?
This photo of your one head- looks like the intake valves are different sizes- such as a fuel injected engine's 33 mm vs carb engine 35.5 mm? |
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:39 am Post subject: Re: Project 66 Daily Driver. |
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No, the Beetle/Type 1 FI engine had 33 mm intake valves; the exh valves were either 30 or 32 mm. However, the exh valves had 9 mm diameter stems whereby the usual 32 mm carb-engine valves had 8 mm stems. https://vwparts.aircooled.net/Intake-Valve-33-x-8-x-112mm-113-109-601D-p/113-109-601d.htm
Tom Wilson's book "How to rebuild your VW air cooled engine" has a reference chart of cylinder heads. He lists the FI heads and notes that the left one had the temperature sensor boss. The right one does not. P/N for the right head without the boss is 043 101 375R.
Aircooled.net also lists that the 33 mm intake valve was also fitted to the 1966 1300 single-port engine, though that had the 8 mm valve stem. When you take your intake valves out of this head, if you measure the head diameters, likely the one on the left in your photo will be 33 mm and the right will be 35.5 mm. If I view them correctly.
Happy New Year, and looking forward to seeing you in person at a CVA event- hopefully with your engine back together and running well. |
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