Re: [vintagvw] My weekend with Dave and Marion Bolen
I have indeed checked out Raby's stuff and boy you have to pay a mint for some of that stuff. Raby takes it to Porsche level for sure and then some. If I can get a good set of heads, I've got a mild stroker crank I could use and then it's just getting the DTM cooling stuff situated. I really don't like that DTM stuff without a thermostat because if you drive on a cool day, it can just keep the engine too cool. I guess the solution is only to drive in warm weather and drive it like you stole it. LOL! NQ - Original Message - From: "Dan Moy" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [vintagvw] My weekend with Dave and Marion Bolen NQ, have you checked with Jake Raby, wealth of information and reminds me of Gene Berg, although nicer ;^) https://type4store.com/ -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/002001d511cb%244a33a6f0%241601a8c0%40NQHPBOX. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [vintagvw] My weekend with Dave and Marion Bolen
Dean, oh, that is nice one! Wish a could weld aluminum! The contour throttle body was one thing I suggested to NQ. Cheers, dave On Tue, 21 May 2019, D Johnson wrote: NQ, I've always been a lurker (since the 80's) but certainly enjoy your posts. I will try, in the future, to comment so you know there is interest. I will always read a good technical or vw related post. Keep it up. BTW I ran across this from a couple years ago... https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/converted-my-old-volkswagen-to-fuel-injection.2511764/ You probably saw it too. Keep us up to date on your project, and I'll do the same, if I get a chance to put my bug back together. I'm upgrading to an alternator so I can run an electric heater. The old generator wasn't cutting it. I also need to weld some holes that have appeared in my heater boxes. But first I have to re-wire my welder... and clean my shop... Dean Johnson '71 Super Beetle On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:39 AM Dan Moy wrote: NQ, have you checked with Jake Raby, wealth of information and reminds me of Gene Berg, although nicer ;^) https://type4store.com/ On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:36 AM No Quarter wrote: Thanks Ray. I used to amaze myself with my articles I wrote simply because I hated writing so much in school. When I could type my thoughts, it seemed to flow so much easier. I've been scanning the net for the parts I'll need to do the conversion on a type 1. The choices are endless, but one thing I'm discovering is that the one TPS I need, is the one that costs so blooming much...like 60 to 80 bucks easy. Yet there are TPS units from other cars - less easy to work with - for well under 10 bucks and sometimes under 5. It looks like I will be getting resourceful and possible even utilizing some 3D printing to make adapters. If I'm ever in PA, I will take you up on your offer. Enid and I were coming back from Maine last October and had a 13 hour layover in Philadelphia primarily because I didn't notice the different between AM and PM on the flight itinerary. That was a long day. I'm assuming that FI isn't something most guys are interested in due to the lack of response on here and that is okay. I was doing even more brainstorming today about what I would do if my FI system crashed so then I started thinking about putting a TPS on a 34-pict-3 and just leaving the fuel shut off to the carb. If anytime my tps failed, I'd disable everything including the fuel pump, and switch over to old carburetor mode so I could keep on going. Carburetors just don't impress me now that we have FI and with the pull of Dave's 1776 etched in my mind, I can't say no any more. Just gotta work toward saving some bucks by being a bit more ingenious with how to home brew this entire thing. NQ -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/000601d50fd1%24cce26bf0%241601a8c0%40NQHPBOX. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/CANyhGbtM2YoWT55hvLq441RwiqUuvuJXOD6j%3D_QkAaUDb3knKw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/CAOm0kBn95saA-wJx7V-DJ551ghac-1fr%3D9Ko3-JmMRDM%2BQb7SQ%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: [vintagvw] My weekend with Dave and Marion Bolen
Dan, You must have hit Jake on a good day or maybe he has just mellowed over the years. He used to be pretty gruff and crusty and suffered no fools. Cheers, dave On Tue, 21 May 2019, Dan Moy wrote: NQ, have you checked with Jake Raby, wealth of information and reminds me of Gene Berg, although nicer ;^) https://type4store.com/ On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:36 AM No Quarter wrote: Thanks Ray. I used to amaze myself with my articles I wrote simply because I hated writing so much in school. When I could type my thoughts, it seemed to flow so much easier. I've been scanning the net for the parts I'll need to do the conversion on a type 1. The choices are endless, but one thing I'm discovering is that the one TPS I need, is the one that costs so blooming much...like 60 to 80 bucks easy. Yet there are TPS units from other cars - less easy to work with - for well under 10 bucks and sometimes under 5. It looks like I will be getting resourceful and possible even utilizing some 3D printing to make adapters. If I'm ever in PA, I will take you up on your offer. Enid and I were coming back from Maine last October and had a 13 hour layover in Philadelphia primarily because I didn't notice the different between AM and PM on the flight itinerary. That was a long day. I'm assuming that FI isn't something most guys are interested in due to the lack of response on here and that is okay. I was doing even more brainstorming today about what I would do if my FI system crashed so then I started thinking about putting a TPS on a 34-pict-3 and just leaving the fuel shut off to the carb. If anytime my tps failed, I'd disable everything including the fuel pump, and switch over to old carburetor mode so I could keep on going. Carburetors just don't impress me now that we have FI and with the pull of Dave's 1776 etched in my mind, I can't say no any more. Just gotta work toward saving some bucks by being a bit more ingenious with how to home brew this entire thing. NQ -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/000601d50fd1%24cce26bf0%241601a8c0%40NQHPBOX. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/CANyhGbtM2YoWT55hvLq441RwiqUuvuJXOD6j%3D_QkAaUDb3knKw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/alpine.DEB.2.20.1905231107110.2973%40dcb-Gazelle-Professional.localdomain. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [vintagvw] My weekend with Dave and Marion Bolen
NQ, Thanks for the kind words! It was good for me to go back over a lot of things both learned and forgotten 14 years ago when I first installed megasquirt. Hopefully the side trips down memory lane added to the entertainment value of "class" and let you get "un-crossed" eyes for a few minutes. It was great to visit and see someone in person(and his lovely wife) that has been on the list so long!...is it really 26 years!!!? Cheers, dave On Sun, 19 May 2019, No Quarter wrote: Hello gang...NQ here...things have been pretty quiet here on the list since I last posted back in January. Since that time my wife and I spent a wonderful month in Australia that went way too fast. The trip was punctuated with the sad fact that a young man decided to check out of life by jumping off the bridge we were walking on. He was right behind us about 20 feet and even though we didn't see him jump, the sound and sights afterwards will be burned into my mind until my dying day. On a brighter note, after being on the list here since around 1996 (23 years ago), I finally got to meet one of our long-time listees! Enid and I just got back from spending a wonderful weekend with the Bolens in Fayetteville, AR. The reason for the trip was for Dave to share with me his knowledge about how to fuel-inject a VW engine and what a wonderful treat it was! I learned so much my head is still swimming, but Dave patiently peeled back layers of the fear of the unknown for me and gave me new-found confidence on the entire fuel injection process. It's a bit involved, but so worth the effort. While Dave's wife kindly took my wife under her wing and went and did lady things together with her, Dave and I hit the books so-to-speak. Actually, I hit the books more - but Dave was kind enough to have a laptop with larger screen plugged in - all propelled with linux - as well as a well thought-out syllabus to help teach me how to do this. I've come away with a crystal-clear view of what needs to happen in order to convert to fuel injection. One of my dreams was to build an upright DTM style 2L Type 4 engine, but the dual carburetor thing always scared me off. My experience with duals hasn't been good and I absolutely hate dorking with dual carbs. In my climate, the lack of chokes makes starting a VW engine a pure joke and having to synchronize carbs every so often is just not worth it to me. I like the center-fed style like what the 1600DP has and now armed with the knowledge Dave sent me home with, I think I could do a DTM T4 2L and create a custom manifold that would mimic the 1600DP style and then fuel inject it! As icing on the cake, Dave took me for a ride in his 1968 Beetle with a 1776cc engine. The turbo has been removed for various reasons while things get resorted out, but I'm telling you guys - I have *NEVER* felt a 1776cc engine pull like this. It was absolutely unreal and now I understand more than ever why some dub owners like fuel injection and even turbos. You know when you accelerate and you hit 3rd and 4th gear how your engine starts to kind of run out of steam? That point where the cam has done it's job and your pistons are moving so fast that only so much air-fuel mixture can enter the cylinder? With a turbo, this doesn't happen. It just keeps right on a pulling! I didn't experience that, but I understand the lure so much more so now. Our quick little 3 day vacation ended this evening when we arrived home ready to start another work week, but we left with gratitude in our hearts and with much thankfulness for the hospitality shown to us on our quick stay. Dave's friend Randy was an absolute pleasure to chat with and we hope to make our way back down there again soon where we felt welcomed with open arms. In closing, I share with y'all a photo of the 2 of us...the teacher and the student with the project in the background. If my eyes look a little crossed, it's not without good reason because I got schooled hard and enjoyed every single stinkin' minute of it. https://elassleybie.incolor.com/temp/DaveBolenNQ.jpg Thank You Dave and Marion (and Randy!) for the wonderful and all-too-short time spent together. NQ -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintagvw/00bd01d50eb2%243f0557e0%241601a8c0%40NQHPBOX. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at
