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| Social_Joe | May 1 2007, 08:12 AM Post #1 |
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I'm Joe. I've lived in Stillwater the last 4 years (originally from McAlester) and am majoring in architectural design, minoring in history and arch history. To maintain my sanity I am a car nut. I've been into VW's for as long as I can remember. I have restored a manilla '71 super for my mom, we also have a '64 splitty bus that was originally an easy camper. My personal VW is a '68 bug with a 1914 (scat c-45 cam, scat 69mm c.b. crank, CB 044 heads, dual 44idfs and other goodies) . Unfortunately the motor is in pieces in my apt kitchen right now having swallowed some mysterious bit of metal into a cylinder . Machine shop says the head is still good, so I'm scraping money together for new p&c's and misc parts to make it go again . Rather weird bug, it is a first year autostick that's been converted, meaning its a '68 with irs (vw didn't put irs in the manual cars till '69. Unfortunately this means my clutch cable is merely stretched threw the tunnel (plan to scrounge for the parts needed to convert to hydroulic, any help with this would be appreciated. I fully rewired it with a modular fuse kit about a year ago(solved so many annoyances I'd put up wity). Bodywise she's basically stock except for fat glass fenders, 62-67 taillights and early blade bumpers. Rolls on flat 4 brms, paint is two tone (mediocre medium blue with the bottom half and fenders in krylon semi-gloss black). I need my bug to go again, its been down to long My daily driver is a '68 Buick Electra 225 4dr hardtop with 106,000 original miles that I bought from the original owner's family for $2950 last feb. Has its original 430 bb with th400 trans. The 430 started making lifter noise under heavy load in december, but hey its 39 years old and has never been torn down. Its a beautiful boat with original interior and a decade old respray, she's my doll, my bug is my main wrenchin/modification testbed. The electra is basically stock except for the dual 30in glasspacks, underdash gauges, stereo and some underhood painting/detailing. Also I have a '83 ford longbed that was my toy in hs, she's viper red, with a built 302(that's been nothing but headaches since we switched out the straight 6, sexytime shady engine builders). If anyone has a spare edelbrock carb roughly 600cfm or is a miracle carb tuner I need help here. Back home we also have a 68 parts baja, and an untitled all original but in need or resto '74 type 4 wagon. I will be in europe "learning" about architecture all summer, but intend to get the 1914 back together upon my return. Eventually I want to start modifying either my body of the baja's body, but first I must get and then teach myself how to mig. I have a great understanding of this (largely thanks to this forum, but lack a damn welder or a friend who consistantly has one). Well that was all long. My comp crashed recently and a friend has my digital cam. So pictures will come in due time. |
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