Aircooled VW South Africa

I'm starting this thread on behalf of Allan.

Allan is the Vice president of our club.He bought this bus with an already perfect suspesion.



The body needs work,but that is already in progress.

That great to see ! mine will be following SOON !!!B.A.B

What are his plans for the Bus?

Red-orange paint for the roof,and from the bottom of the windows down.The window line is going to be black,and a set of widened EMPI wheels are on the way from the UK,along with around R40 000 worth of spare parts from WW.

Tyres will be 225/55r15's.A Samba trim from Creative Eng.

That sounds awesome!!

Keep us posted!!

I'd roll it as it is..................nice ride..............very nice.

There is a lot of cracks in that body that needs urgent att. because of underlying rust.

Alan's engine is on it's way to Bugger for some good overhauling,and some red hot performance upgrades.

Bugger,please post pics as you go along.

Here are some early mod pics of what I did with the Fibreglass fan housing with shit cooling

I basically cut all the sides off and cut the center piece out where the std beetle fan housing bolts down and mated the glass fible housing to the steel pieces
The big advantage of this is that the air that gets pumped out from that nice fan is not waisted by getting blown past the cylinder walls and heads with a gap of about 2 finger width

Now with the std tinware around the barrels and heads and bolting the bottom plates on aswell the cool air is forced inbetween the cooling fins than just taking the Lazy mans route past and over the finns

And all the side tinware can now also be used to seal the heat from the Exhaust tetting in to the enjin compartment

This is how the fan housing looked at first straight sides passing the barrels and heads




And the motor with std plates


After the fan housings Diet



Just before I have cut the steel center open to allow better flow coming from the fan
Once the fibre has dried I will take the housing off and cut the excess steel from the plates that will restrict the flow
I will also flow the inside of the housing with fibre glass and make a divertion plate to divert some air to the cylinder 3+4



After some glassing



More pics will follow


















Can you ZEEE now

Bugger,I can't open the pics!

*LMFAO!*

BWahahahahahaha

ROFLMAO!

I have tears rolling down my face from laughing!!

Good one triple F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!B.A.B