Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:20:43 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Neil's Engine Conversion. Progress Update.
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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
>
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>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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