Aircooled VW South Africa

Thanks 2bugme.

As callooker said, you do not need and spcialised tools to work on a beetle engine. The only tools that you do require is a proper strong arm and socket for the flywheel nut (Never compromise on tighening the flywheel nut) and a flywheel locking tool to keep the engine from turning when fastening the nut.

The rest of the tools required is quite standard.

for me it isnt about tools...one is a nice clean space with no dust,sand,ect.2nd is the furthest i can strip a bug motor is to do the rings...but i want to go deeper...spliting the casing...i really really want to do my cam....but im scared...

Hey Dubstr,

Why not just buy a cam...its much easier and the grind is the best compared to local engineering grinds....

Engel W110 0r W120 is the best for Street use. They about R2000.

Shot

2BugMe wrote:Hey Dubstr,

Why not just buy a cam...its much easier and the grind is the best compared to local engineering grinds....

Engel W110 0r W120 is the best for Street use. They about R2000.

Shot

Dont forget you need to do a fair bit of work to the rest of the engine to accept a 120 cam. A little less needed for a 110 cam, but its still not a straight swap.


Hijack over, open a new thread for more advice....

ive got stifer valve springs...i need to get my camfolowers hardend...can i use stock pushrods?and new bearings?if i split the casing how do i know if i have to get it linebored before i put it back together?sorry for disturbing your thread 4age?

Open a new thread in the advice section

ive got one called cam and lineboring...how was the test drive 4age???

I would go with cromoly pushrods, not too expensive and worth every penny.

Test drive was a bit dissapointing. The turbo's exhaust housing is too big so it only starts boosting at about 4300rpm and reaches 0.5 bar at 5500rpm.

I should be getting the parts to mod my turbo before the weekend. Now changing to a 0.48 stage 2 exhaust housing and wheel. The current one is a stage 3.

ive also got a pair of those,but they are shorter than the stock ones???shit!so the turbo lag was killer...how was the sound though when it started boosting???

Single Hi-rev springs are fine with stock pushrods and are not noisy like the cro-mo's

The turbo sounds nice... at least I got that whoosh sound when changine gears.

i would install a turbo on my bug just for that sound even if stil ran like stock 1600...wel maybe not that bad but you get my point...was it pulling when it got to 0.5 bar?how much but are looking to run?

It was pulling ok when hitting 0.5 bar. I guess the volume is still a problem, but this should be sorted when I change the exhaust housing.

nice...how much boost are you going to run if you get everything sorted?

1.2 bar max