I will bug one of my friends who has w fuel injected bug. I know he did it budget minded and used megasquirt. Think he used some fox body mustang parts and milled up a crank trigger wheel.
Strangely thinking FI and vws makes me think of Sharkey. That car just got parted out a short time ago after being in storage for a decade.... time flies. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 7:09 AM No Quarter <sil...@beatricene.com wrote: > Hi Dave. Thanks for your reply! You analogy about relatives picking up > from where they left off from is perfect. That's what this is. :) > > I want this engine for my 62 double cab and 67 bus. I would not build > this way for a big, but torque is king in the bus and I want it all and I > want it low. I had my first bad experience with CB Performance large valve > heads on my 1776. It would have made tons of power, but in the bus at the > point where the power band was kicking in, the bus hit terminal velocity. > I was forever running behind the power curve. Traded straight across for > Gene Berg 3 angle valve job stock valves and the power came in where I > wanted it. The guy I'm looking for was building stroker engines for the > bus crowd and he told me all he did was pull the venturi and up the main > jet one size. He could tune it up and off he went. I've never had a vw > engine over 4K and in fact my bus would cruise 3600 to 3800 rpm all day > long. I suffered some low end losses with the freeway flyer and tall tires > so that 1st hear takeoffs took a lot of revving to get going in the > mountains and even around home. > > A friend of mine in Lake Havasu City and I had a chat years ago about him > working on old propane powered trucks in the mines and how these big old 6 > cylinder trucks had such small valves. They needed the increased port > velocities down low for torque or they would never get anywhere. He even > bored out a set of 1300cc heads and put them on a stroker engine for fun > and then put them on his single cab. He let his friend drive it and his > friend said it pulled like mad up to 35mph then fell flat on its face. > What did you do? Lol! > > It was an experiment to test the theory and for buses it it sound. I > need a conservative approach for my buses. I know this is a type 1 list, > but I feel more at home here and I think the low end of the torque spectrum > is worth investigating for those who would like to build an engine and last > a long term due to keeping the revs in check. > > I would love to venture into the world of fuel injection. I'm fact, I > would buy a plane ticket and pay someone who would let come to them and > have them teach and school me in what I need to do. I'm only interested in > naturally aspirated setups and I'd love to know just what parts I could > pull from the scrap heap to accomplish it. I'd like to take notes, ask > questions galore, get part numbers for the connectors and components, know > how to create the correct fuel maps and so forth. I don't want to spend > countless hours reading forums, conjecture, wading through and endless sea > of talk in an effort to sleuth out some magical recipe. It's why I'm > willing to pay someone who has found a good budget approach to fuel > injection and has done all the research. Since I can't seem to find > someone willing to teach me, then I'm forced to monkey with the idea of a > 34 pict on a stroker. > > I really mean it. I would pay a worthy amount for the data to make it > worth someone's while. Once I knew the recipe, I could build whatever > engine I wanted and fuel inject it no longer being bound by the chains and > shackles of carburetors. Unless the person teaching me specifically said > to not talk about it, I would gladly put on a seminar to teach people how > to do the same. > > After all, happiness is only real when shared. > > NQ > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "Dave C. Bolen" <dbo...@shockwaverider.com> > Date: 23/01/2019 08:12 (GMT-06:00) > To: vintagvw@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Is the VintagVW list still working? > > > NQ(and others). > > Glad to see the list here. It reminds me of my relatives, don't talk for > 5 years and then pick right back up like it was yesterday. > > I've trimed my herd down to my 68 sedan(megasquirted 1776 turbo) and a 72 > KG 1914. The turbo is newely back on the road after cracking a cylinder > at 12psi...my fault though and another long story about what NOT do do > in a hurry with your exhaust on a turbo. > > NQ, to answer your first question(the one that started this). > > I really don't think you could pass enough air and gas thru a 34pict to > feed a 2 liter for very long. My bet is that the jetting and idle circuit > adjustments/changes would be a nightmare....even with a limit of 4000 rpm. > > Might be an interesting exercise though. > > Think about the throttle body on a 2L bus engine and the teeny tiny carb > off of a 1200cc. VW always managed their horsepower by adjusting the carb > venturi size and the exhaust pipe size...mostly for longetivity as many of > us have learned over the years. > > On the other hand! Wasn't it Bill May who always touted the torque coming > out of a mildly modified single port? Seems like he always believed that > the single port made more torque down low than the dual port. > > Ya didn't say what you wanted to put this engine in, but I'm thinking it > wasn't something you were going to put on the hiway. > > Go back to the "famous" hot vw's 1776 daily driver beginings and I think > they tested with a 34pict to start with...they had dyno numbers also. > > Now, time to tell *why* you want an engine like that! > > Cheers, dave > > -- > 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. > 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. > 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. 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