Lifted Sedan, Class 11, Full Body Baja, etc (pics 1st trip)

[dustymojave]

Gotta stop doing crack!
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
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Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

[mr_bill]

love my A-1 exhaust....have never hit anything.......
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"Mr Bill"
Dos Perros Motorsports
Orange, CA
1972 Class 11x/Stock Bug
'60's era "vintage" Tunnell-Buggy

"...no one here....get's out ALIVE...."

Motor = electric
Engine = internal combustion

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[Brian]

This new one was a pretty penny, so I'm going to make sure it doesn't snag on anything. Just need to figure out how I'm going to get a skidplate mounted up in there. This exhaust is a low hanging mess, but should be excellent in the performance department.

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'69 Bug
'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

Only losers litter

[mr_bill]

BRIAN.......question......what make & model is your ignition coil ??
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see ya' on the trail........

"Mr Bill"
Dos Perros Motorsports
Orange, CA
1972 Class 11x/Stock Bug
'60's era "vintage" Tunnell-Buggy

"...no one here....get's out ALIVE...."

Motor = electric
Engine = internal combustion

www.facebook.com/groups/DosPerrosMotorsports
www.alrchapter132.org
www.DAV.org

[Brian]

CB Magnaspark coil. So, China.
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'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

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[airschooled]

Sooooo this thing runs. And it's a monster.

Brian?
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[Brian]

Yea 'bout that
So, new engine is in the car and it is running.

Engine specs are as follows:
Big
Loud
Vroom vroom
(specs are in a notebook somewhere, I'll throw them up later)

It has some dual 40s on it and the jetting is way off on it. So gonna book a day with Airschooled to use his LM1 and get that tuned in. After that I got the CB MagnaSpark which I'll do the fine tuning with.

The CSP exhaust I got is ridiculously nice too. I'm just worried about how low it hangs.
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'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

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[Patty g]

Brian, what cross bars do you have on the beetle that are able to support your tepui tent?

[Brian]

Thule 387 Gutter Mounts and Thule LB58

The load bars are flat and the mounting hardware for the tent is also flat. So, nice and secure.
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'69 Bug
'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

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[TiredandWornARTifacts]

I just read all 16 pages...

more, please!
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[Brian]

Sadly not much going on lately but I do have plans for a new motor be slapped in hopefully soon. I had to take the 2110 out as I found a circlip in my last oil change. Also the oversight of the build was the oil pickup

The cosmetically I'm looking for a drivers side vent window that is chrome instead of polished.
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'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

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[dustymojave]

"circlip"
As in piston to wrist pin?

Or as in rocker arm retainer?

I lost oil pressure in the 1835 in my Hi Jumper while suspension testing about 40 years ago. So parked it off the side of the trail and hitched a ride back to camp and trailered it home. Found a rocker arm retainer clip in the oil sump. and another inside the oil pump, wedged between the gears. The drive tang of the pump broken off in the end of the cam. I not only changed to bolt-on rocker shafts, I also changed to a "Der Zueger" oil sump and pickup. Never had any such problem since.

https://www.appletreeauto.com/SUPER-OIL-SUCTION-KI...S4QAvD_BwE

EMPI makes them now. But I just helped a friend put one on his Bug a couple of months ago and his is nearly identical to mine that's nearly 40 years old. EMPI hasn't messed it up yet.
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

[Brian]

[petrol punk]

[dustymojave]

Not sure where I saw it in the last few days, maybe SoCal Bajas FB? But someone posted up pics of his windage baffles that are vertical sheet steel panels welded to the oil pickup Lengthwise along the case seam. Far from the 1st time I've seen that done, but was hoping I could share the picture with you guys.

The vertical baffles he did combined with an off-the shelf (OMG ) EMPI windage tray would probably be much better still. Baffle for horizontal slosh and horizontal windage tray for vertical slosh.

I was out testing the re-indexed rear torsions in my Baja the other day and experienced some low oil pressure moments. I have an EMPI windage tray in my engine. I WAS driving it like an offroad race car... Rubbed the tires on the rear fender wells a few times, but it's working way better than the previous sagged out situation. Now it could use a little more shock.

Back in the 1970s, it was popular for offroad desert racers to connect the oil pressure idiot light switch to the horn as well as a large dash light, so you would see a buggy go across the desert with the horn occasionally beeping... you have to hear it and see it together to really understand it. Especially interesting at night, when the car is a long way away from another car. With the long range pencil beam lights flashing up and down lighting up the dust in the air, occasionally going dark for a moment when the car noses in, occasionally making a momentary streak across the night sky when the car noses up high. The sound of the engine undulating unevenly with the rough terrain...ruhh ruhh ruhh..ruhh ruhh Beeeep! ... ruhh ruhh ruhhh...a tiny pause after the beep for the oil pressure to come back up before he gets on the throttle again. If you hear that followed by a loud KRUMP! and the lights are out for a second, then back on pointing back through the dust cloud the way they came, to another sustained beeeeeeeep, lights arcing over the top to point forward again, then going dark again as you hear another KRUMP, followed by a couple of thump - thumps and the lights wind up pointing goofy directions and the horn going full time... Then you know it's time to run to where they're at to put them back on their wheels because they just double endoed!!!!!

Been there a time or 12
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

[Brian]

Dusty, oh man I can only imagine that scenario! It's all fun and games off road, until stuff starts breaking and going "interstingly". I've a had few times driving out in the middle of, what feels like, nowhere and having some "funny" stuff going on. I've had the main terminal on the voltage regulator go loose so my radio was cutting out; it was a cool day in the desert but I was sweating bullets fearing I was going to be stuck in the dessert for days. I'm sure we've all had some fun panic moments

This is the one I was thinking about:

And I drive on the streets like this as well, so should be warranted

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'68 Baja Truck
'71 Bug
'68 Camper

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[Vanapplebomb]

Once had the fuel pump that started randomly cutting out on me, only for it to work fine 20min later. Found out a mouse and chewed the insulation off the wires and it was shorting. Having any car randomly conk out in the middle of nowhere, particularly at night, is always nerve racking!
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1800 Type 4 Berrien 295

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487021

[oldschool5er]

I still build engines using windage trays, both vertical and flat plate style. I dont use slip in trays because over time they wear into the case and leave grooves so that case material is going somewhere, so I just use bolt in plus braze a vertical plate in. I use the same "super sucker" pickup Dusty uses and have ever since they were first made. I don't really have problems with loss of psi.
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[airschooled]

[dustymojave]

Are you a cop? Cause I'm seeing donuts!
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.