Aircooled VW South Africa

Congrats Tom.....

Pine, I don't think they ever really finish . We just get some time to enjoy and have a rest.

I hereby nominate Tom for the "Actually completed a project." award of 2010.

Well done!

Hi all,

I have been absent from the aircooled world for a while but never stopped lurking.

It has been replace with Mtb'ing. Now if you thought air cooled was expensive try a MTB. eg Front Tyre cost R590.00 and I lost one after 30KM.

Just a quick update on the Kubel.



The Kubel has been going well and has covered +- 9500km. Now its time to make it motor a bit more modern.

You changing to Fuel injection?

Missed you Tom...

hey hey mr Bishop. its been a while. missed the old sharp witt and humour.

but watch it its been a bit hairy around here

All i can say is Wow!

Playing with my Thing Again!

Motor together again with crank trigger and lambda sensor installed. The next thing to install is the coil pack.



Checking if the mini fuel tank clears the tunnel and where to install the fuel pump.

Now they say you simple plug it all in correctly and turn the key. Mmmmmm.......

Yes you right there plug the 2 main Plugs in to the Computer after you connected all the input parameters to the bare wires at the end of the plugs and whala there you go

Getting all the wires connected is taking some time.



Does anybody know where I can get a new female plugs for the TPS. I would prefer to crimp the wires directly to the female plug so that the wires are the correct colour to the end.

Hey Tom, glad to see you back...
I would try AC/DC or Zak Speed. Further than that, Hamrads in town (if they still exist). Unfortunately I cannot say that they will have, but that would be my sequence of shopping - hopefully they will be able to point you in the right direction...

The motor side is complete. All that is need is to connect the Fuel lines from the motor to the car. After I have the motor running the wires will be cut to the correct length put into a proper loom with the correct plugs on the end.


Here is a pic of the Kubel on the front cover of some English Mag.

Looks good Tom

Hey tommy. Brendan here. Good to c u playing with the thing again.

How u doing ?