Truckspotters

[Fast Eddie]

I like it...

I miss our baja bug... it was a fun cruiser and pretty damn capable. I put a 1.7L GTI engine in it with dual 40 side draft Weber carbs.

I came close. It's hard to see but had 93mm jugs and dual 30 webers. If I could find that body again (no bump along the rear fender), top and side curtains, I'd build another one without all the graphics. This was from 1976.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Pinto on Bronco chassis, 351W. I have got to stop looking at marketplace.

71 Mach 1 in the background. Wonder what that looks like. A 429 Boss and they were brutal street fighters.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I came close. It's hard to see but had 93mm jugs and dual 30 webers. If I could find that body again (no bump along the rear fender), top and side curtains, I'd build another one without all the graphics. This was from 1976.


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You might be off a millimeter one way or the other with the piston size. Probably 92's from that Era. They never made 93's. 92 (1835) then jumped to 94 (1915) in later years.

I sure had a bunch of fun back in my air cooled days.

 

[Fast Eddie]

You might be off a millimeter one way or the other with the piston size. Probably 92's from that Era. They never made 93's. 92 (1835) then jumped to 94 (1915) in later years.

I sure had a bunch of fun back in my air cooled days.

I was almost certain they were 93's out of JC Whitney but you're probably...

 

[superj]

i just keep swapping engines into my karmann ghia every time i would have an issue from the rear main seal leaking suddenly. one or two engines and i became a lot more serious on changing that seal if i got any kind of shudder when shifting, or a sudden oil drip from the transmission/engine mating area.

but engines were only 100-150 bucks back in the 90s so it wasn't a huge deal buying, just got tough finding used engines laying around after a while.

 

[Fast Eddie]

i just keep swapping engines into my karmann ghia every time i would have an issue from the rear main seal leaking suddenly. one or two engines and i became a lot more serious on changing that seal if i got any kind of shudder when shifting, or a sudden oil drip from the transmission/engine mating area.

but engines were only 100-150 bucks back in the 90s so it wasn't a huge deal buying, just got tough finding used engines laying around after a while.

I bought that dune buggy when I was 15 scouting junkyards for old VWs, fixing them up and selling them with a $25 Earl Scheib paint job. As long as the frame wasn't crunched, everything else was fixable with junkyard parts and a socket set and set of wrenches. My Dad gave me space in the garage and rides to the junkyard on weekends. One weekend, my Uncle came with us. I found a 4 spd. 69 GTO convertible - yellow on white. It ran but smoked a little. I begged my Dad to let me buy the car and when he wouldn't , my uncle bought it. I'm still pissed (LOL). I mean damn, I found the car. Shit!

The guy I bought the buggy from owned an import car repair shop - Phil's Foreign Cars in Ledgewood NJ. I worked for him over the summer, off the books, until it was time to go back to school. Anyway, it kept me off the streets and out of trouble. Those were different times.

 

[don4331]

I was almost certain they were 93's out of JC Whitney but you're probably...

So, I broke out my old JC Whitney catalogue and there in the VW section are 93mm jugs, pistons & pistons. Learned something new today.

 

[Uncle Gump]

So, I broke out my old JC Whitney catalogue and there in the VW section are 93mm jugs, pistons & pistons. Learned something new today.

I guess I did too... I've never seen them. I sold VW parts for 20 plus years.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Whitney sold some shady stuff back in the day. No telling where it found those odd-sized pistons.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Whitney sold some shady stuff back in the day. No telling where it found those odd-sized pistons.

Yes they did...

Crazy though... there is tooling required to put anything over an 88 mm piston on a VW 1600. The case needs to be bored bigger for 90 and 92 mm pistons. Bigger yet for 94 mm.

Those must have been short lived...

 

[Fast Eddie]

Whitney sold some shady stuff back in the day. No telling where it found those odd-sized pistons.

Me no worry. Me no care. Me just happy they were there LOL

 

[Fast Eddie]

Yes they did...

Crazy though... there is tooling required to put anything over an 88 mm piston on a VW 1600. The case needs to be bored bigger for 90 and 92 mm pistons. Bigger yet for 94 mm.

Those must have been short lived...

That's why I worked the summer for the guy I bought it from - to pay the bills. He knew all the right people

 

[fastpakr]

Whitney sold some shady stuff back in the day. No telling where it found those odd-sized pistons.

They used to have a 35 gallon fuel tank for a Bronco II. I always wanted to see one up close to figure out how far down it stuck.

 

[Fast Eddie]

So, I broke out my old JC Whitney catalogue and there in the VW section are 93mm jugs, pistons & pistons. Learned something new today.

That's where I got them. Jugs, pistons and rings. I should have mention I payed for all of it with a paper route, Phil's Foreign Car and 0% loans from my Father.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

They used to have a 35 gallon fuel tank for a Bronco II. I always wanted to see one up close to figure out how far down it stuck.

Sounds like some fine Chinese design and craftsmanship for THAT item.