so have you been brain washed with the subie power🤪😂🤪? And is the only way or would you go back to vee dub power?
Personally I love the sound of vee dub power with twin carbs.
rose wrote:so have you been brain washed with the subie power🤪😂🤪? And is the only way or would you go back to vee dub power?
Personally I love the sound of vee dub power with twin carbs.
my love of VW motors will never die
hell, ive been building them since i was 15, my brain still ticks over conrod bolt torque values and head tension patterns etc when i try to sleep at night 😂
but i am truely happy with the end result of the converstion to though. in the next few years another VW will probably join the stable again and stay mecjhanically stock
how else am i supposed to make use of all these parts i got laying around 😂
i'll get some vids up soon but from inside the car u would swear its just a big VW engine running IDAs
thats exactly what it sounds like
back on topic
it seems i have some territorial marking going on.....
And it aint coming from the engine
J'ACCUSE.......... INPUT SHAFT!
original looking abit raped after removal
bore cleaned out ready for new seal
OEM german parts all the way baby
to tap it home squarely an old axle nut and some of the staino pipe i seem to have an abundance of at the moment
new shaft installed with a dab of permatex on the outside and well oiled on the sealing lip with fresh tranny oil
i got introduced to exedy button clutches a few years back when i was part of the the toyota world when i had the celica and corolla
id always gone the token kennedy in the past but at the time there was a stage1 famine on
couldnt get one anywhere
autobahn had the exedy clutch in overnight
not badly priced either
200mm type1 is the only HD air cooled clutch they do
no that went with ray but we do have ash's EJ22 and all the conversion kit she was going to use in her beetle in perth.
now i just need to convince her dad to chuck it all in the back of his landcruser and bring it over at christmas.
1961 swb buggy
1960 karmann ghia
1963 Single Cab: "El Concreto"
1963 bent 23 window " Frieda Samba "
1963 Eriba Faun camper " Cara Van daCamp"
2012 Skoda Octavia scout
she would have just about forgotten what mildred looks like 😂
so....
Who ordered the caramel milkshake?
a direct result of my stupidity, it highlights the importance of the cooling system with these engines
the only weakness with these engines....and there it is 😂
after i stuck the engine back in the other day from replacing the shaft seal i just poured what coolant i drained back in but was still a bit short
one mainstreamer was parked in and the other was down at byron for the day
so i took the bug down to autobahn to ggrab some more coolant
it didnt seem that low and didnt get hot on the trip but next morning i got 2.5L of cooant into it
since then its still running perfectly fine but ive noticed the overflow fills up more than usual and if its just idling the fan stays on alot longer than normal
just gotta decide now whether i can be arsed pulling it down to do the headgaksets or just swap it for another engine
ill probably just fix this one up as i know the history of it and even with a leaking headgasket its still running like clockwork
i was actually in shock when i found out cos its running to well so it must only be the tinyest leak that opens up when its hot
ive put over 100kms on it and didnt even notice anything was wrong till i saw under the oil cap
ill proabably do the timing belt, waterpump, 'stat and cam seals at the same time
im getting abit sentimentally attached to this engine so id rather stick with the devil i know
That's bad luck, they were probably on the way out, the extra heat just tipped them over. You need to fix it, otherwise your going to reluctant to drive it on trip.
Your probably right Steve.
it wont even be run again now till i get it sorted, the only reason it has been is i was blissfully unaware of the problem.
im really not too upset over it, pissed off at myself for letting it happen but its not a hard fix, the headgaskets are something i should have done the in the first place 🤪
to much of a rush to get it on the road
Hi Bragi, you'll love it
a kafer brace is the only strenghtening required. you could get away without one but the risk of the chassis forks bending or fatigue cracking is there
they're not hard to install and you can really notice the way it strenghtens up the rear of the car
the standard trans will take the power of a stock EJ22 if your not permanantly driving like a race car
its a bit of a piece of string question you can damage a tranny with a stock vw engine if your rough enough or driven fairly sensibly would last even with an ej20turbo
at present im running 4 wheel discs which were on the car before the conversion
bigger rear torsion bars are a good idea but that said im not running them, now that ive raised the back up a bit its riding perfectly fine
an EJ22 is only putting out about 20 or so more HP than most 1916 vw engines people put in and very few of them bother upgrading transmissions or brakes
Nice work Joel, this has really come around mate. Been seeing it grow since day one of this thread 👍
hmm... vrs sets sounds like a bit of effort. It will run like a dream after...
The liquid glass (with hte copper flake) Chemiweld i think its called, is a good permanent fix. They even recommend for new engines to seal any factory pin holes. And it works. I was a bit 'reluctant' as i was worried about coating everything and making a mess inside the block. But it only 'collagulates' where the loss of pressure is, so it doesn't deposit everywhere. It simply seals the leak after driving 30 mins minium. Then you drain water, flush, fill with fresh coolant.
If i remember right though, I been told thta when the leaks in the oil you can't use the chemiweld stuff. Can't confirm though... but i would imagine it ain't healthy.
You'd konw more about this than me anyways with your watercooled background. I'm just going from the experience on my celica 2 months ago :P, and took an old mechanics advice (friend of mine) when i was having head gasket issues. its since been sealed, regardless of the torment i put my car through.
cheers Chris
im just hoping the thread helps people that are in the situation i was facing 9 months ago, considering the conversion but not sure of exactly whats involved
its under $100 for a pair of genuine head gaskets
im not a fan of temporary fixes plus its a good excuse to give the top end a freshen up
my old boss will skim the heads for me if they need it which i highly doubt but you never know
trouble with shaving the head is it raises the compression if a stock gasket is used which works against me as im still kicking ideas around about force feeding this thing
My mate blew head gaskets the other night in a commodore stationwagon, i laughed at himcause i was doing the same thing in my bug and was fine, now he has no car. And once the mechanics done will have no money.
