What a drive. Wow

[MK1Scirocco16v at comcast.net (Dave Ewing)]

Yeah those big mountain motors have nice grunt.  Did you see if it was a
type 4 motor?  2.3L is about as big as you can go with the beetle case.  I
have some experience with the air cooleds but too much maintenance so I went
to watercooled.  Plus, I like having defrost!!

A friend of mine has a 12 sec. beetle and it's the full car--whole interior
and nothing firberglass.  It is an older one (59) so it is lighter than the
later models but his secret is Gene Berg everything with his own custom
heads and big 48's gushing the fuel/air in.  He hits 9k - 10k rpm without
even thinking about it.  The GB stuff he uses is old school and has more of
a possiblity of being built by him personally.

Fun little cars if it's not your DD!  That is my opinion and now that I have
a diesel pickup (Rabbit) it's almost like the oposite end of the spectrum as
all I have to do is add fuel and change the oil once in a while!!

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Macfarlane" <juliemac57@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: What a drive. Wow


> On my way to see the "Two Towers" this evening with my daughter. I spied a
> nice old yellow bug up ahead.
> I pulled up, the driver young, waved back. I noticed the over sized Tach
on
> the dash and pulled a head of him.
> Many miles later, I came on to one of my favorite corners and a great
> accelleration straight away. Accellerating into the corner and flooring
the
> car, I looked back at the tiny little bug.. Poor thing.
> At 75 a few seconds later I looked back. Hummmm. Strange. He's closer than
> he should be. Is my car working correctly?...
> About 2 miles later as I came up on the exit for a dinner stop. I looked
> back to see him motion me over.
> We stopped. The first thing I said was "Its not stock is it   :)"
> It was a 2.3L air cooled engine with twin dual webbers. Sheesh. No wonder!
> He had had a MKI and loved the car. The axel broke loose and the car was
> scrapped. Did I know of another?
>
> He might be calling tomorrow on the Red Rocc. I told him of the list as he
> is teaching body work. handy man to have around eh?
>
> What a buzz  :)
>
>
>
> Julie Macfarlane
> Menlo Park Research & Development
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> Amsterdam NY
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