Jim Anderson aka Zundfolge was a pretty cool fella. He sent me a VW care package one time and I still have bits and pieces of little wiring connectors meticulously labeled in my stash of parts. I have a toolbox drawer filled with input shafts from IRS transmissions to use as clutch alignment tools and the cam in my bus was a good used one...also from Jim. Does anyone have his email address? I'd like to email him. It's because of Jim that Rob Laffoon of Omaha, NE got his green single cab pickup and Rob has won awards and taken dozens of trips around the country in that bus. Even Johnny Lightning made a copy of it right down to the Buskatier Kokopelli logo.
I'm really wanting to do some fuel injection stuff. I've collected the parts to do a 2L T4 setup and I've just had it with the carburetor crap. I really want and need to learn fuel injection for the air-cooleds. I talked with Jeff Laudin at the Wabaunsie State Park campout (in Iowa) last Saturday and he's running a GMC Sonoma FI setup on his T4 2L. I guess it works really well. I'm personally torn on which method to use for cooling. I love DTM stuff but really want the thermostat flaps. The Joe Cali method leaves the #3 cylinder running a bit warmer than I'd like but at least you get to have a thermostat...such a crucial part to have for proper warm ups and just ignored by most. Argh! Anyway Dave, got any pix for us of the 68 turbo? Thanks for the kind words on missing me all these years now. I just got married 3 weeks ago and went on honeymoon throughout Colorado. I married an Australian girl who loves VWs and me even more. A lot has changed but we still love the VWs. I've been driving Li'l Red everyday now. I put an SVDA distributor on him and upgraded to disc brakes with the super stopper shoes in the rear. All this courtesy of John Connolly at www.aircooled.net. A final note...my grandpa who was so instrumental in helping me with the mechanicals all these years finally passed away a year ago January with stage 4 cancer. I still wear the bib overalls in his honor and the torch has been passed on to me now. With his passing, I've lost a tremendous resource but I'll just plod along and do what I can until I see him again. Nice to see the list is still going and hopefully, with my second wind and new lease on life, I can make posts once again and help get things fired up. One thing I've learned...do NOT make VWs the focal point of your life. Make it an integral part of your life and use it to enhance what you have but put the priority on your loved ones and the VWs will just mesh in. I've been through a mental hell over the past 9 years getting things straightened out in my life and I feel better now than I have in many, many years. I've missed the list and although I can't post like I once did, I will try to make posts as I can. I hope you all enjoy what little I'm able to post from time to time. NQ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
