Your video are awesome I try to be the first to watch them. I learn a lot from your videos that I can’t wait until my uncle by marriage overhaul his fathers white Carmen Gia Beatle very rust free
Just found your channel. having done a "One lap of N.A. family vacation in Camper back in '70, I have a bit of nostalgia for this era of V.W. Enjoyed the tech and the process. Hope to see some more.
~19:00 Speaking about the 0.054 shims resulting in a CR of 7.2:1......I'm thinking that might be on purpose for whomever built the motor last. Seeing as the heads have the grove ground into them this may affect the CR. The deeper those grooves, the deck height tool is not seeing those grooves and essentially the overall area of the combustion chamber is changing. In this case the grooves are creating a rise in the CR. So, with a CR of 7.2 plus the groves maybe the CR was closer to 7.6-7.8 using the 0.054 shims? Using thinner shims your CR may be too high? Just a thought 😁
There’s a very tiny sneak peak at the end of the last video with Clementine. But a video on the single cab has not be done yet. Won’t be until the summer.
General overheating. I had this engine in my Bus during a road rally. Bus was loaded with a lot of equipment and had to make it up a mountain on the hottest day of the year. Cooked the motor pretty good.
The Dynamic ratio numbers of the static compression ratio will be lower. From what I have read. The stock cam should be able to handle 8:0.1 CR. Just my opinion. Are you going to ship the engine to NC?
I refreshed my single port a couple of years ago. It had shims on bottom of cylinders….I think 40 thou. I asked around and no one made copper shims 85.5. I wanted to move shims to top of cylinder and let the copper shim help seal cylinder-head better. Have you ever done that? Is it possible?
I have not. I’ve heard that VW did this for a little bit on the early T4 engines and then eventually recalled them and stopped putting them in. But who knows if that’s true. I’d be worried about the constant heat cycles deforming the copper and allowing blow by or affecting the head torque; but who knows. I haven’t done much playing around with that and I’m sure a plenty of argument threads on thesamba about it 😂
Are you on Reddit? I recently put a post on reddit with my blue/white bay getting ready for Spring time (Im in Pennsylvania) and thought someone commented back about getting a single cab in NC. Are you "tuskusbeat"?? lol
@@wickedwerks Yo yooo!!! As soon as I heard your story about the single cab & saw the picture, I knew I saw it somewhere. haha!! Glad I found your channel man. Every social media site and youtube is nothing but VW related things. lol Hope to learn some stuff from ya man!!
@@jamie-r2034 I'm just a reddit rando and Taylor took the time to help me get my ghia running via text and phone calls when I was a noob. He's a great guy.
It’s my first time honing cylinders; never tried diesel or wd40. I was going to use PB Blaster if I couldn’t find the fluid film 😂 I did the three stone because that’s what harbor freight had. I couldn’t be bothered with trying to find a dingle ball that would fit these cylinders though I know it would have been better.
