I think the hardest thing about an engine build is figuring out what will best be suited to your driving style, to you, and your wallet. It's hard to beat the economy and reliability of the stock package, but if you find that a little boring, it's fun to see what you can do.
I found this dude: www.jimmysspeedshop.com and look at what he built for a bus: Using a stock 34-pict-3 and a larger main jet, he's feeding a 2110cc engine with stock intake and stock heads. I'm guessing this thing will completely fall flat by 4000 to 4500 rpm, but in a bus, I've never pulled that kind of RPMs and never even in my bug. I like keeping my RPMs lower (not lugging) and using higher intake port velocities to increase my torque. Certainly with this setup, you're not going to get the power coming later, and for a bug, this is a bit extreme. For a bus though, if you build the engine like they used to do for old inline 6 cylinder engines with the small valves and carby, you get all kinds of bottom end torque. I think for a bus at least, the trick would be to build an engine that brings on the torque at about 5 mph above what you want to cruise at. That gives you a 5mph reserve plus maybe a little more down hill, and then you'll have the torque to pull you along. This actually seems to me what a stock cam does for you. I'm giving serious thought to building a torque monster 2110 and see how it goes. I bet it'll be a lot of fun and it should last a nice long time. NQ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
