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Ed Gooding (VA)
07-30-2002 04:09:12
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Re: Re: Re: 1971 VW BUS in reply to buck, 07-29-2002 19:02:45
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Hey Buck. I never put a name on mine. Used to run it at Aquasco Speedway and Bud's Creek Dragstrip, but this was in the '68-72 timeframe. Used to frequently go up against a loud purple V-dub, named Teeny Screamer. Was owned, built and driven by a guy who owned a Mobil gas station on Lee Highway in Arlington, VA. I believe the best he ever turned (at least that I knew about) was a 12.2 in that little booger. These engines began life as stock, 1600cc grocery getter engines, but ended up as 2200cc screamers with stroker cranks, Weber roller cams, twin Weber 48IDA 2-barrel carbs, tricked out heads, close ratio 3rd and 4th gears, and tons of other goodies. This was the hey-day of V-dubs, and of course it started in So. CA with companies like EMPI, who had their way-cool "Inch Pincher" drag car. The first mod that I ever did to my '65 was to swap in some EMPI headers, a Bosch .009 centrifugal advance distributor (later traded up for a Mallory dual-point), a 2-barrel chromed intake and a Holley 2-barrel off of a flathead Ford engine. The sucker was waaay over-carb'ed, and that's where I started learning about balancing your mods, and I picked up a set of .043 dual port heads (yep, had to buy a new intake), an EMPI cam and bigger jugs. Really caught the fever and, several evolutions later, finally started right with a brand new, 1600cc block and went from there. Experienced speed guys had tried to advise me not to try and build the stock 1200cc engine in my '65, and they were right. With the 1600cc and a little machine work on the case, you could bolt on some 1900cc jugs, and then drop in a stroker crank if you really wanted to get some displacement to work with. Really had a blast back then and got to relive it with my younger son, when he brought home an adopted '71 beat orange beetle, that we turned into a street dune buggy. Sold that after we had our fun and he found a really sweet '73 yellow beetle that we mildly souped the engine on, but left stock otherwise and he drove that for several years. A lot of really good memories with those little air-cooled engines! Regards..... ..... Ed
'52 8N475798
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