Itinerant Air-Cooled

After dickering with the PO for almost eight years to reach I price I would go with. I brought it home yesterday.

I guess he may have thought I was crazy when shouting with joy while replacing the flat tired rims with wheels that held air and discovered the brake drums would turn freely!

Congrats. Exciting project.

Thanks, Buses are my preferred choice of VW's. I've had four bays in the past but this is my first split.

looks real nice- whats the plan?

Get it mechanically sound to drive. My 68 bay is still around as a parts hoe, I'll harvest the rear wheel openings and fuel tank. It's got RGB's so I'm thinking about a 1776 or 1850 cc power plant to help it up the hills. The undercarriage has only surface rust so after cleaning that up and coating it I can drive it while I do all the needed body work, the front floor needs to be replaced (SOP right) and the cargo floor at the side doors. Someone cut holes in the back above the engine for something.
After I paint and reinstall the glass, panel interior and set it up like a day camper.

TexasAirCooler wrote:Get it mechanically sound to drive. My 68 bay is still around as a parts hoe, I'll harvest the rear wheel openings and fuel tank. It's got RGB's so I'm thinking about a 1776 or 1850 cc power plant to help it up the hills. The undercarriage has only surface rust so after cleaning that up and coating it I can drive it while I do all the needed body work, the front floor needs to be replaced (SOP right) and the cargo floor at the side doors. Someone cut holes in the back above the engine for something.
After I paint and reinstall the glass, panel interior and set it up like a day camper.

Try stock engine for a while. Get to know its DNA before leaving the factory recipe. Even with a fire breather monster engine, the gearing is going to limit your progress. If you make a substantially more powerful engine, you will be at the transaxle divide, where a late model transaxle and IRS calls. Otherwise, you will be spinning the performance engine senselessly and having to shift at 8/20/35 regardless.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote:Try stock engine for a while. Get to know its DNA before leaving the factory recipe.Colin

Don't worry Colin, when I posted that my engine size thinking is down the road a ways. I know I didn't specify that above, sorry.
I totally understand what your talking about. . And we know thinking and saying is only the easy part!

I'm the guy you chatted with at the Dallas, TX Keller's drive in about nine years ago that had the black '65 bug with a 1641, and pic 31 carb. (And I'm not expecting you to remember that!) The first year I had it I drove it with a 1200 to figure out it's DNA



The bus will be using a stock 1600 for it's first power plant. The plan is to use the one out of my daily driver. That engine's case is on it's last round but I think with my driving habits (keeping my foot off the clutch as much as possible) I'll be able to freshen it up and use it while I do all the body work on the bus.
After the bus is painted, I put a upgrade motor in it. Not wanting one that will breath fire, just have some nuts to get me up the hills.

TexasAirCooler wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:Try stock engine for a while. Get to know its DNA before leaving the factory recipe.Colin

Don't worry Colin, when I posted that my engine size thinking is down the road a ways. I know I didn't specify that above, sorry.
I totally understand what your talking about. . And we know thinking and saying is only the easy part!

I'm the guy you chatted with at the Dallas, TX Keller's drive in about nine years ago that had the black '65 bug with a 1641, and pic 31 carb. (And I'm not expecting you to remember that!) The first year I had it I drove it with a 1200 to figure out it's DNA

I do remember that night, and I remember you. I just can't believe that was nine years ago. Have you seen James Dwan's '59 splitty?
Colin

Yes I've seen his bus, it's been a couple of years. I don't hang with that group anymore.