Hi all,
I found this forum by accident the other day when one of the kiwi VW websites referenced a thread hear about someone building a maniac 3 litre motor and have been reading through the rest of the forums since.
I've owned about a dozen beetles through my life and I am currently working on three of them. My long-term resto is a 1963 beetle that is getting close to paint. I had to do a lot of rust repairs on it but I am getting better at that the more I do and it is looking pretty good. It has a 1600 twin port motor and a 1500 swing axle gearbox, and will be finished as a cal-looker. I am also driving a 1974 1500 beetle which looks a lot like a 1302 but is a swing-axle and is currently in primer grey. I will eventually repaint this, probably red, but for now I need to have at least one car driveable. The original 1500 motor had been rebuilt prior to me buying it but is blew a hole in one piston (loose inlet manifold) so I am rebuilding it as a 1600 motor which as almost finished. In the mean time I am running a 1300 in it and it goes just fine. The third car is a 1967 beetle which I am building into a road-legal baja. I am buiding a 1600 twin port for it and will fit a 1302 IRS gearbox which will require an IRS rear end to be built. The front is link-pin/king-pin and will have raised spindles if I can find them cheap enough. I will probably do a body lift as well to get clearance. I have already bought a one-piece front for it as well as some huge tyres but I'm holding off starting the build until I get the '63 out of the shed.

So far I've managed to get my avatar up and put a post with pictures so now all I need to figure out is how to show my signature in posts and how to subscribe to threads - there must be an option somewhere I haven't been yet

welcome aboard the mad house mate.
left hand side at the top of the thread is a subscribe button. you can also do this by hitting new reply button and checking the send email reply box.
as for your signature its though the user cp page. under edit signature.

Thanks Barls, I found the subscribe button and I have editted my signature but it doesn;t show up, is there somewhere I need to toggle it on? Is there a default setting somewhere where you can automatically subscribe to any thread you post on or do you have to do it for every thread?

ive never seen an option to subscribe to all of your replies.
as for the signatures can you see others ones? if not there is an option to turn them all off or on as is you preference

Yes I can see everyone else's, just not mine. Can you see mine?

can see this
1974 beetle - 1967 baja project - 1963 beetle project

Ah, I can see it too now - how weird. OK thanks for that on with the show.