The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

I am suprised that you had so many problems with them. I am a mechanic so I am confused. If it only went in for balljoints, how did they create oil leaks, why did they remove the oil filler cap and why would they mess with the ignition timing? I am not doubting what you are posting but normally none...

I thought I would pass on some information, help to our members. I have been using MEGA Machine for all my machine work for my projects and always have been extremely satisfied. I wanted to tell everyone here that they also repair and modify VW's also. Todd Howard and David Cornatzer do excellent wo...

hahhahaahha I might suprise you and restore it , especially if it only has that low of mileage. We have a 62 that is in the process of restoration right now. The body was perfect and completely original inside and out. I found it last year during the time my wife had a heart attack and did not have ...

I would do the same thing here in NC, I live near Raleigh ,what city is it in ?

That is the cool part , when the Kawells helped me we set it up with 8.2 compression, the cam is a Kawell grind almost the same as a fk10 , the heads are 044's that Dave gave some love to, so this really is a street engine that I can drive with pump gas. Mike McCarthy

No I haven't run 1/4 but it is really geared for it. So far it has only been test driven down the street in front of my house but never licensed. The headers on the car are made for sheet metal and alternator , but in the race car it is just excess weight. I will be running the race car until I am f...

I have ben racing since 1985 and slowly have been planning to build this car. I told Dave and Judy Kawell when we built this engine that I wanted a street engine that I could race and thats what we came up with. The engine has 366 hp to the rear tire with race fuel ( C16 ). Click on the VRNews banne...

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k300/dragvw2180/66bug006.jpg me with the bug http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k300/dragvw2180/66bug004.jpg Trans for the car http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k300/dragvw2180/Autocrafttrans007.jpg engine for the car http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k300/dragvw218...

Hey Sam, We are from Michigan , moved down here in the early 80's and this is home. I do not miss snow,hahhahahah I plan to post the build here, step by step and hope to get input from members. My wife told me to go ahead and order the body repair panels I will need so that I can get this started. H...

Pertronix work pretty well , if you use one make sure you use a hot glue gun and put a dab on the wires glueing them to the points plate so that the wires will not rub on the rotor. MIKE

Depends on what you are going to do with it. I have run stock ignition for years with no problems on a stock engine but as the performance went up so did my spark needs also. I run MSD on my car now because I use all the electronics on it, 2 step, rev limiter ect... Tell us what you are going to do ...

I found this website by accident and hope to make new friends here. My name is Mike McCarthy , I am 60 years old and have been into VW's for 43 years. I bought my first VW when I was 17 and have liked them ever since. I drag race in Pro Outlaw in the SEVWA series with my chop top bug. I am building ...