Aircooled VW South Africa

yeah!!!yet another monster t4 to dream about at night...i second blitz a german look has to be one colour...maybe something out of the porche range seeing that you are going with porche mags...

According to my knowlege the ragtop's only came out till round about 1963/4. From 1965 to the end the standard bugs with sunroof had a steel sliding roof like this one. I like them very much.
When I was still young one of my teachers bought a new bug in 1968 with the steel sliding roof and it looked so cool. Would not mind having one in the yard. (Pity the space)

Man I like your ideas........this is going to be great.......

Nice throttles... are they 48ida bolt pattern?

hey guys,

here are some more updated pics.......... cant wait to get it all together!!!!














cheers!!! more to follow soon

Wow,looks good

Rear disc brakes - enjoy bleeding them. I will never recommend rear disc brakes on a beetle after my troubles.

But its looking good.

Nice set-up..........

Looking nice.

Looking good, but ........ those solid mounts are going to drive you crazzy on the highway, it's not going to be pleasant. Sound deadning is going to have to be thick.

one word... dynamat. Does absolute wonders.

dynamat it is then........ i have the throttles what else besides the dizzy do i need to complete the set up? external oil cooler? fuel pressure regulator? fuel pump? please help any advice will be good

Speak to Brian about a distributor... 083 7340080. He builds new distributors from VW Golf units.

For the fuel pressure regulator, do not buy the cheap stuff from autostyle. Try get a oem vw unit or a malpassi rising rate regulator.


Fuel pump, VW Golf Cti. They produce 160lt/hour at 3 bar pressure. Which is more than enough for your engine.


Oil cooler, Volkspares sells a oil cooler kit with electric fan fitted to it. Those work wonders. Also look at the setrab coolers that universal coolers sell.

Just a hint on the fuel pump. Make sure that the pump is located close to the fuel tank and that the outlet pipe from the tank is about 1/2" or bigger. These pumps are gravity fed, if there is no fuel it's buggered quickly.

You can simply enlarge the pipe on your existing tank, but I'd reccomend building a surge tank for the pump. That way you are sure that there will always be fuel.

just one q 4age would a petrol pump like that be enough for a turbo setup?