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Ok, looks like a later guide tube transmission, and the clutch doesn't have the ring on the centre of the pressure plate, so that should work.
One thing that does strike me is in the last photo the friction plate looks a bit strange. I know it's a non sprung centre, but the splined bit looks like it is protruding towards the flywheel, not the pressure plate. Could it be something as daft as the friction plate being in backwards? If not, I'd start looking at the hydraulic cylinder, although if it worked fine with the last engine it should be ok. When you get a new top pulley, get a decent one - cheap ones just wobble out the woodruff key! CSP are supposed to be excellent, but I'd avoid most aftermarket curse word!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 21, 2019 20:27:32 GMT
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John, post up a couple of photos of the clutch and the inside of the bellhousing. I suspect you've got a mix of early and late parts, but I'll know if I see them.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 21, 2019 19:10:16 GMT
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"holy sh1tballs I think I'm going to die soon " is about 50mph in my car. 40 if it's been raining. There's one bit of dual carriageway by me that is a nice "open it up and clear the carbs" stretch. On a good day I get to the speed limit far quicker than other traffic expects, and if it's damp I just try to stop the back end from overtaking the front at walking pace. Its not a relaxing drive...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I'm so looking forward to seeing the video of your faces when you give it the beans for the first time on a nice long straight road.
It'll be a mixture of "ooh, this has got some poke", "how many points have I got left on my licence" and "holy sh1tballs I think I'm going to die soon " if mine is anything to go by!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Well, our house sale fell through (timewaster had no intention of buying, just wanted to keep us off the market while he sold his own...), so can't see us moving that soon. Therefore I'm back in. Will order tickets on Friday!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 17, 2019 17:28:15 GMT
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 16, 2019 20:13:49 GMT
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There was a chap in America somewhere who was doing a 2-door conversion to one. I'll see if I can find it.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 16, 2019 20:04:59 GMT
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Well that was rather good, thanks for sharing. Is it odd that the main thing I'd take from all that lot is this : ?? No, not odd at all. I rather like it myself. Dirty mags do it for me...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 15, 2019 21:26:07 GMT
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Most cheap sockets are only good as spacers... Cheap spanners annoy me most though - how some retailers have the gall to call them tools is beyond me, I mean, how hard is it to make a spanner? And how much harder is it to make it right?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 15, 2019 21:09:44 GMT
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The way I look at backdates is that they're fine if they're done well. Take a Beetle - slapping a set of pre-'67 front wings and headlights onto a '70 won't make your car look early. Change the bonnet, engine lid, valances, fuel tank bumpers and brake drums and you're part way there. Change the doors, switchgear, steering column, headliner and seats and you're getting closer, but only if you make it look like a '66 or '67. A later car has the wrong rear window. Earlier cars have smaller side windows so they'll never look convincing. With the Porsche, a long as it looks like a '73 or earlier, you'll be fine, but don't skimp n the details!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 15, 2019 17:48:49 GMT
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I've used the socket/spacer trick before - a cheap set gives a huge number of spacers...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 10, 2019 18:11:08 GMT
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Just getting the boy bathed and then we're heading over, via petrol station and McDonald's. Not stopping too late, he's only three...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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As a passenger, probably with my dad driving one of my mum's Volvo estates, probably the later one (EEA324Y if I remember right). Definitely scariest was in a brand new 1999 Astra SRi borrowed from Vauxhall, a mate driving and bottling it at 135.
Driving, probably in my Karmann Ghia around the same time on an A road closer to home. Our VW club was coming back from a show and we realised we'd lost a couple of the lads. One guy in his 912 and me in the Ghia shoot off to the next island, round that and thrash it down to the previous one. My speedo ran out of numbers, but the Porsche one reckoned 105. I've hit the oil light at the bottom of the speedo in the Beetle too...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Like this:
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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On a Beetle with full bodywork,you'd tend to hang the filter off the bumper mount, and if the rear metalwork is cut away, a bracket to hold it off the exhaust flange for number 4 cylinder.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Weight reduction effects more than just handling tho 😉. That should answer your question. If I told you putting a bag of cement in your boot would make your car faster would you belive me? I'm hoping not lol! In drag racing, more weight over the rear wheels can equate to quicker 1/4 mile ETs, so the bag of cement can make you faster :-) This! We can get a Beetle to wheelie with 120bhp, but its unlikely to go around a corner that well. Everything taken off the front should be balanced with weight out of the back if possible - that's why my drag bug ran a relatively heavy battery in front of the front axle instead of behind the drivers seat. It balanced out the lack of spare wheel well and the tiny fuel tank.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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And that interior is just detail city!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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You have got the later gearbox mounts, and you're right, you do need the earlier cradle. I wouldn't recommend the solid cradle. Get the early (1961-72ish) cradle (about a tenner on ebay) and the heavy duty grey mounts, made of a stiffer rubber.
You've also got the so-called "universal" engine case, which gives you three threaded bosses on the back for the bay window bus engine support bar. You could fabricate something that mounts onto them and out to the engine cage?
Look into a "kafer cup" brace too.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I might or might not make it. We've had an offer accepted for a house and it looks like we could be moving around that time, just depends how close to the show our actual date is. Hopefully we get a date in the next week or so - we're moving closer to Shelsley Walsh too!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Miini's look weird deseamed. That is all. Back in the late 80’s early 90’s I had a deseamed 73 Cal looker. Not chopped, just as smooth as I could get... Looked great, but every time it rained and you climbed in / got out, you got drenched and started a small swimming pool in that front foot wells. 😬 Guess I ‘improved’ (destroyed) five or six 70’s bugs in my time. 😞 My chopped '66 was deseamed as well. Being a race car it didn't have carpet to get wet, but I did get a vinyl seat. A wise choice as it turned out!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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