Looking for volkswagen pictures, specifically engine, i found that in a lot of them they had an oil filter, almost the same the military jeep i own has, so i started to look info about and discover that i was right. The filter is what is called a bypass oil filter, it does not filter all of the oil all of the time, but does work to a degree, and of cuorse is better than nothing. They used to came in the old performance kits like the okrasa or the judson supercharger, with specific braket, hoses and conections for the aplication. ...

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The first thing we did, was clean the pan, it was really ugly, but not bad, only the part where the batery goes was rusted and neded a replacement, so i went to look for a floor replacement, but how i was talking in the past post, the parts you find here are for brazilian cars, cause it wasnt the same, we cut only where the batery goes and replaced that, the welding was really dificult, at least for us, but it finally ended the way it should, after that, i found a nice 3M product called "sellador de juntas", ...

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When i first started looking info for my VW restoration, i searched all over the internet, and foud a lot of info, most of it from the USA, so at the begining i thougth that the cars here were the same than there, but thats not correct, let me explain why, and how it afects the restoration. Here in Venezuela i cant say for sure when the first VW came, i think it was in the mid 50s, but in the 66 or so, they started assembling german cars here, the car was almost complete when it arrives, so they used ...

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First, forgive my english, i really need to practice a lot more. In this post ill talk about the disassemble, i started it the same day the car got home, i was really exited, this was our second restoration - the first one was a m38a1, military jeep - but they are really diferent. First of all i started removig all the lights, cause they didt work, the electric system was complete but only a 20% was in working condition. After that the fenders went out, all the interior, and everything that needed to, cause the next step was remove the ...

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While I believe the Scirocco was one of Volkswagen's greatest (water-cooled) cars of all times, I do feel that VW and a lot of car markers are running out of creativity. Recently we have seen many vendors try to cash out on popular brands from the past. Just to name a few, the New Beetle, Mustang by Ford, the Mini Cooper and recently the Dodge Challenger. Every year that I attend an auto show, I am impressed by concept cars that never make it to the showroom. If I am not driving my vintage Beetle, I expect to see things ...

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I think that the better way to start this, is presenting you my 63 vw, the original owner buyed the car in Germany, where she lived for 20 years or so, - i didnt meet her -, and in the mid 80's she moved back to here, Venezuela, where i live, in 2000 her family sold the car to a good guy who wanted it to restore, indeed he buyed some missing parts and all that, but never started to really work in the car, so his wife wanted the car out of her's house, and then is when ...

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I have some time reading blogs here, and finally decided to translate all my posts about vw (from my blog) to here, and maybe talk a litle bit more about them, so i hope you enjoy them!!...

I will attempt to keep an ongoing journal of recent happenings in the Volkswagen arena. I will try to be as accurate as I can be, with a my personal opinion interwined. Lets see how this works out.

Has anyone outside of the United States driven this car as of yet? I have read a few reviews on this car, but it seems like everything that has been written about it has been inconsistent. When I am looking for views of many products, the first site that comes to mind is C|net. I thought the car looked really sharp, clean in style and a pretty decent design by Volkswagen. They have plans of v6 @ 250 HP. It has been a while since they've come out with a new product. ...

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I have been working on my project for a couple of years and I've pulled off a few parts I have no idea where they came from. Has any Volksblog.com readers ever seen these parts before?