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Hi there. My setup as planned now. Just collecting parts.

IRS Pan.
56 Oval body, as stock looking as possible.
996 front brakes
951 rear brakes
Boxster 17" wheels
901 5 speed (with Guart LS Diff when funds grow)
Ron Lummis 8 point cage
Koni shocks, maybe narrowed beam and rear arms

The engine is my focus right now.
103mm Eurorace barrels, JE pistons
Aircooled.net 78mm counterweighted crank, Type 1 rod journals
Scat 5.4" 22mm wrist pin rods
A. Knuf 911 cooling setup and compartment tin
A. Knuf 1.7 liter block, 39 gram lifters, machined for 911 shroud, shuffle pinned, welded beneath cylinders for sealing area, stroker crank clearanced
A. Knuf heads!!! 48x40, welded intake and exhaust, pinned intake manifolds. The best!
Ahnendorp 42mm header, custom 3" silencer setup
Riechert intake manifolds
48 IDFs at first, TWM 50 TBs and SDS later on
Schleicher cam 324 9.4
Oliver's special light valve train, GB outers, WBX inners, 914 Al pushrods, polished rockers lightened and solid mounted
Schadek 30mm oil pump, maybe dry sump later?
A. Knuf mini sump
96 Mesa above trans, thermostat on fan, Riechert oil thermostat bolted to stock cooler location

There is more but I forgot and this is a quick list. With Oliver's help and everyone elses I am hoping to make 200 reliable horses for street use and some autocrosses and hill climbs. I am going to take this baby on the Gene Berg cruise and prove Type IV power rules.
Steve Arndt

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A. Knuf heads!!! 48x40, welded intake and exhaust, pinned intake manifolds. The best!
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I forgot. I am going to run the A. Knuf 6 stud CNC plate system. Maybe the first in 'Mer'Ka?

Hi, my name is Vic, and I hail from the small island of Malta.

I've got a '61 Bug that I converted to Type 4 power in March 2000. It's a stockish 1.7L motor with slightly reworked heads that has obviously been redone in an upright configuration utilising the extra Type 1 tinware that I and some friends of mine had lying around.

I had to do this conversion on a really tight budget, simply to replace a worn out 1.3L, as this Bug is the one that drives me to work everyday. It is no show winner, but surely a head turner, and it's the first Type 4 powered Bug on the island. This has given me some first hand knowledge for my main project, a '63 ragtop, that I am fully (body off pan) restoring from the ground up, for the last three years.

For the '63, I'm in the messy cleaning process prior to the rebuild of a mildly tuned 2.0L of yet uncertain specification. I have started collecting some parts for it, like a very nicely made fanshroud from Joe Locicero of Oregon Performance (Hi Joe!), a nice set of 40 DRLA's that I originally bought for a Type 1, 1776cc that I had in mind, TRW and Manley valves, and a Webcam camshaft. There's more to go still till I put it all together as funds and time allow. I'm thinking about something in the region of 130 bhp, with possible upgrades in the future.

And... Hmmm... I also 've got a '72 411L in storage that NO ONE I know approves of.....

Thanks to all you guys here. The second one should not be as difficult as the first with the knowledge I'm getting from your questions and suggestions. The first one I did with the little info given on magazine feature cars, and was really tough.

Regards,

Vic.

P.S. Some pictures are online in my slowly under construcion pages at:

http://www.geocities.com/ragtopbug63/61bug.html

John Connolly

What can I say? I have been into VWs since my father collected 356s when I was a kid (I remember having over 30 of the "junkers" around my farm.

Build my first engine when I was 8, and was paid to build one when I was 12.

Been heavy into it for a long time. Assisted in the construction and design of the VW National Championship Drag Car in 87'.

Did my first type 4 into type 1 conversion in 85'. Made a LOT of mistakes over the years, and found out what worked and what didn't. Ran a small VW repair/restoration shop for 15 years, and then put myself thru school. Was a mechanical engineering student until my final year, then switched to electrical to finish. I know a LOT of engineering.

Moved to Utah 4 years ago, and thought I was out of VWs. Bought one in Colorado to restore, then towed my race car (2165cc turbo, hauls @$$) here. Towed my "street car" project (2700cc turbo Type 4, 091 trans, etc) here, still collecting cobwebs. I'll get to it soon.

A friend approached me to start an Internet Commerce VW parts store, and I already owned the domain name Aircooled.Net. 2 years of hard work and the rest is history. I'm killing myself to be THE leader in used parts for VWs. I don't just sell parts, I have used and installed them. I won't sell it if it won't work. There's a lot of hype in the aftermarket industry.

Brian got me to come here, and I read a bit, and try to post, but so many "easy" questions have very complex answers, but I try to help!

There are a lot of tricks to these cars, and many "new" ideas ain't so new (guys now are no smarter than in the past). There are a lot of "forgotten" tricks, which I convey to guys that ask.