[vintagvw] Our 15 min of fame

2013-09-17 Thread Bert Knupp
Volks, At the June Mid America FunFest, in Illinois, I met Tom Janiszewski, the long-time writer and cartoonist for the VW Autoist magazine. The new VW Autoist came today – and on the back cover he featured my Copbug in a cartoon. Not only was comic strip was actually good for a grin. but he

RE: [vintagvw] Disc Brake Kits

2013-09-17 Thread Bert Knupp
The last piece of my disk-brake conversion kit for my 1970 beetle arrived today from Mid America Motorworks - almost exactly 6 months to the day after I ordered the conversion kit. It purported to be a remanufactured left spindle, though unlike the right spindle shipped earlier, it was drilled

Re: [vintagvw] Disc Brake Kits

2013-09-17 Thread Michael
Bert, I would return that garbage and do my business elsewhere. The new owner is not a genuine VW guy, just a greedy capitalist. It's obvious by the prices, products and the way he does business. I won't spend a dime with him and can't recommend that anyone does either. The only thing

RE: [vintagvw] Disc Brake Kits

2013-09-17 Thread Dave C. Bolen
Bert, The problem that I had with the left(drivers side) spindle from an empi kit was that the speeometer cable drilling was not well done at all. Even after I worked it over, my speedometer has the bump,bump look of a kinked cable...I don't expect the cable to last very long. look at that