Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:54:42 -0700
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Neil's Engine Conversion. Progress Update.
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Thanks Jake et al.
Today I will make the accelerator cable linkage (my old design of
cable/small pulley worked but was not good)
It'll be up/down the driveway, maybe around the block, but that should
tell me a lot.
Cheers,
Neil.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey congratulations Neil! That's a real accomplishment.
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:06 PM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I was so excited to hear the Jetta engine run with the exhaust all
>> mounted, (homemade + Walker "Quiet" model Vanagon style muffler....
>> and 2 custom muffler brackets!) I thought I'd report in about the
>> progress on my conversion.
>>
>> It sounds great! Quite quiet in spite of the shorter exhaust run,
>> idles steady, revs up nicely, though I think the lack of air filter is
>> affecting the mid band sustained RPM's after gunning it from
>> idle...... (the MAF is likely getting too much air flow) but I
>> digress.
>>
>> The filling of the cooling system went very well. I used this
>> ("stolen" from the Samba list):
>>
>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234192&highlight=cooling
>>
>> It worked great. Can't say enough good things about it. It helped as I
>> didn't have enough room to jack up rear of my Westy. The only problem
>> using it (as a newb) was that I filled it too much at the end and when
>> revved up, coolant barfed back up the pipe. Niiiiiice.
>>
>> This is ok, as I consider this a christening of my Westy as a water
>> cooled beast. --- ;^)
>>
>> Figured out the position of heater core hoses. (I had it right the
>> first time but as a former air cooled owner, had no idea how they went
>> in)
>>
>> And.......
>>
>> The heat!!!! REAL heat!!!
>>
>> Distant are the memories of newby camping in eastern WA scampering to
>> find a campsite... at 9 PM ..... late spring.... still some snow on
>> the road higher up and me with no heat desperately "white knuckling
>> it" trying to find the site that wasn't! (actually I found a nice
>> little lake side camp site)
>>
>> Still have to install the gas tank, and wire up the rad fan, heater
>> control cable and a few other niggling details, but things are lookin'
>> good.
>>
>> It starts/restarts after a few turns, the engine sounds fine, clutch
>> engages in all gears, there's no leaks, rad got warm-hot, pressure in
>> system, upper rad hose hotter than the bottom one which warmed up up
>> in due course. All good so far.
>>
>> And did I mention the REAL HEAT? --- ;^)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Nicholson '81 JettaWesty "Jaco
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
>> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> Crescent Beach, BC
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
--
Neil Nicholson '81 JettaWesty "Jaco
http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
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