my63vw

Like i said in the past post, when i finished the car, i made some changes to the engine, i did it cause i really liked the car’s apearance, but not the engine. I had some pieces that didn’t belong to it, like the pulley, had some problems with the dinamo, etc, and looking at internet i decided to get a dual carb setup. One think i really like about my car is that it looks old, thats why i wanted a pre 67 car, and i tried to restore it originally, at least so much as i can, so i wanted an old school look engine. I found info about the Okrasa 36Hp engines and decided to do something like that, asking about carbs on the samba, some people told me “get some 34s” and some other “get some kadrons”, and i found a really nice set of used Kadrons, they have the old air filter model, they came with a nice set of dual port aluminium manifolds, but my engine is a single port, i looked for a pair of sp manifolds and found a set, the two were right side, so i made some litle modifications to one of them. Cause i wanted the look of an okrasa engine, i started looking for a FRAM Oil Filter, and finally got a NOS unit, for less money than a FLAT4 replica, for me it really looks nice, and it works too!. Finally i was having big troubles with my original distributor, problems geting parts for it, and problems with the advance, it was making my engine to run really hot, and has less power at high rpms, so cause i was going to put a dual car setup, i started asking about the 009, some people told me, “for the old speed look, get a 010 or a 019″, then i learned that this old distributors are far better than a 009, i found a really good guy who restore them, so i contacted him, and buy a good one at a really nice price, if interested, look here!. Well what can i say, the diference is amazing, the engine is the same, but it has a lot more power, it doesnt get hotter than it should, and with my new transmission i can go with the trafic really well.

At the same time, i painted all the engine tin again, this time the right way, i finally discovered the problems with the dinamo, i had to change the parts that hold it to the fan shroud, and the part that holds it in the case, i have a 12v dinamo, and its bigger than the 6v, so the guy who made the swap, didn’t changed the pieces and made some modifications to the originall ones, thats why it wasn’t straight, i ended recostructing the dinamo cause that, and it had only a year of use, now everything works fine.