Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Fair, I'll just give it a clean and hold out on the filter until I decide wether or not I wanna upgrade to a single DCOE 40 and and exhaust system.

Depends how long I end up staying here, it'd be nice to have a rat rod bug even though it's not very individual.

Twin 34/36s beat a 40, high lift rockers, zorst and away you go.

So tempting but I really need to fix the broken things before I start getting performance/bling stuff.

I can't wait to fix the speedo so I can see how fast it actually goes because I'm pretty sure I had it up into the 80s on flat road today. I did over 100 miles of freeway driving and not once did I feel I couldn't keep up with or pass modern traffic as other people seem to have been saying about these.

The 1600s are just fine, plenty of new shopping hatches have a worse power to weight ratio. 80mph for a healthy one is no bother, if a bit noisy. My 1600 bus will just about get there if the wind is in its favour.

External wastegate if turbo, probably open trumpets if not. Mine backfires flames out of the trumpets and mines not a rotary!

If it was a turbo then most likely it had a screamer pipe

That's an Mx5 n'est pas?

What cams are you running to get it spitting back through the TBs?!

Yes, definitely this. Lovely in standard trim when well serviced and tuned, messing with them really doesn't gain you much unless you're going to go at it full-tilt.

I always liked this twin choke carb upgrade, I had a pair of twin 40s on a 1776 in a 62 bug and they were a twat TBH, it's balancing the banks that's a pain in my experience. The single version looks great.

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It's a turbo, you can see a blue Tial? dump valve just to the left of the airfilter.

someone say turbo?:

Just when i thought i was getting away from this forum i discover they have a car thread...

From experience i would say do not loose the airbox, they are a very well designed piece of kit for stock bugs. Replace filter if needed but leave it be otherwise, good link for more info;

http://www.vw-resource.com/air_cleaner.html

Another good reason not to use a pod is depending on your decklid is that if you don't have a Kamei rain guard water will piss into the filter overtime it rains.

I haven't touched bugs in a while but have experience with them and IMO your plan to get everything running as it should is a very good one. I love a well put together stock 1600 with some OG heat exchangers and you can make some simple improvements without making a mess of things, if it were me...

Ensure all original tinware is in place, this is vital for cooling
Replace plugs, leads, filters if needed with decent factory spec parts
Oil change
Ditch the points, I had several with Petronix ignitors and they worked very well but keep the stock dizzy and avoid cheap 009's
Use fuel filters but keep them out the engine bay!
Get on Volkszone and search threads on servicing/improving stock 1600's

I did twin Dell 40's of an Alfa and it was more hassle/cost than it was worth (although i'm aware how much more 40's cost now so maybe worth considering if you're happy to rebuild them). It's not a favoured Carb upgrade because of the longer manifolds but my best 1600 setup was with a Weber 32/36, 1 3/8" autocavan stainless exhaust, stock heat exchangers and a Petronix.

I wish i could get another bug but they're way too much money now!

That's lovely, great to see a tuned engine retaining so much of the original design/hardware. From memory the issue with the single 36/40 over twins was the length of the manifolds causing issues with warming up. That homemade airbox is very classy.

My submission for "most common lie" told in car adds: "aircon just needs a re-gas". No, it needs a new condenser for much £.

What's the daily cost of ownership standing at..?

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See also: Cat C, but only because someone dropped some skittles down the side of the seat and they're impossible to get out.

No - the ownership lie is the most overused. "1 owner from new" generally means that it was a demo, then someone bought it and sold it, then the next owner had it for ages and this one is the dealer selling it now.

Singer gear nob, ridic

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Looks like an 11 year old made it in woodwork...

Stick to the memes, m8

Amirite, doe?

See also: Cat C, but only because someone dropped some skittles down the side of the seat and they're impossible to get out.

Ah yes- you read all the way through the ad to find "Cat-D due to light bumper damage in car park, car would be £45,000 otherwise" (its £29,000).

Exhaust cam as an intake cam but I think it's the fucked valves that lets combustion blow past

Couldn't see the pic properly before. Also that's probably not a rotary in that RX7 as I can see 4 branches and the filter and dump valve are not in a factory location. So either that's a 4 rotor (unlikely) or an engine conversion?

What could I do, short of a super charger that would wake the Volvo up at lower revs?

Off-boost the 8.5:1 motor is lazy at best.

Change gear more often