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  1. Posted · Edited by 68Beetle

    The valve does not leak and does work (I dont lock up the rear wheels), so I will leave it as is for now.

    I fixed the control arm issue without too much fuss once I received the parts. After cleaning the fuel distributor, it ran well for a while, then started to miss on #4 again because that injector kept clogging. I found a benz in the local junkyard with a similar fuel system, so I swapped in some MB V8 injectors and it runs well again.

    The guy I "bought" the car from was very pleased thet I actually got it running, so he gave me the grille with the lambda sond emblem and the VC DC emblem. The emblem was custom ordered from a guy in England in the '70s that casts the emblem in sand and melts silica sand into the spaces. You can also see the awesome intercooler neatly behind the grille.

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    I want to start by saying I enjoy working on cars, but God some people are so stupid and thats why I don't work at the dealer anymore. The shit you see is amazing, to say the least.

     

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    I lol'd IRL when I saw this one. The person tried taping a dowel to the nub left after the stalk switch broke so they could still signal.

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    Why didn't you just put a new motor in it? 300,000 is just a number. If the jeep itself wasn't falling apart, then you coulda brought it back to life.

     

    My 04 chevy has almost 300k on it. Granted it too has a blown engine, but the thing is solid as a rock.

    This

     

    My buddy has a '74 Beetle with 540,000 recorded miles. He has records of eight owners, and four of them paid for engine overhauls. He did a fifth overhaul and the thing runs like new.

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    Talking about injuries=/=car discussion. I demand infractions.

     

    My condolences however.

    I lol'd. I must know how is the truck!

     

    In all seriousness, Im glad you are all right though. Hope the fiance pulls through.

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    The auxilliary fuel injectors were rigged up by me using parts from a website selling parts for old k-jet cars like old mercs, porsches, deloreans, volvo, vws, and the rubber hose was advertised for use in fuel injection systems. So I went to pick up my dad from the hospital. I pulled into the parking garage, and had to go down 2 levels. As I was turning around a sharp bend the car sputtered and stalled, and after almost a full second of cranking I smelled gas. Pungently. I had stopped for 3 seconds and there was already people honking at me to let them pass, so I got out and pushed it to a straight area so people would shut up. I popped the hood and saw gas dripping from everything, and I mean everything.  The bottom of the hood was soaked, the wiring harness, exhaust manifold, battery, fuse box, all dripping in gasoline, but still nice and hot from the drive over.  This was a problem, not for the obvious reason but also because there was no way to tell where the fuel was coming from. I had my sister turn the key to run and I immediately saw fuel spraying fast from a small split in my new fuel hose, and ot was spraying directly at the cooling fan, which sent a mist of fuel back all over the engine.  She started freaking out, so I sent her to go see dad.  I had enough tools and parts to block off that section of the harness, but I knew better than to start the engine. I fixed it there, with many bystanders keeping there distance because of the smell, but I was in front of the elevators so there was still a lot of people staring at me. This being a busy hospital, the level I was on was full, so when I started pushing the car to find a spot, I had to go all the way down and around a full loop. I saw a spot around the next corner so I started pushing and a car pulled around me, then around the corner and into that spot. :angry: As I found a spot and was parking the car, someone finally stopped to help me push it in the last five feet lol.  I left the car with the hood open so the fuel would evaporate by the time I came back.

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    So my car almost killed me on a couple occasions so far.

     

    The first time was when I was testing the brakes :rolleyes:.  The front rotors were so pitted they were grinding down the pads very quickly. During 5 miles of city driving the front pads went from 8mm down to metal on metal.  I found that with the employee discount that it would be cheaper to buy oem stuff than aftermarket el cheapo, so that was a done deal, $70 for pads and rotors.  I went out on a back road to burnish the pads (break in, aka get really hot).  On the way back I slammed on the brake to test the strength and I heard a big BANG and the car veered hard into oncoming traffic. I attempted to correct and the car lazily drifted back onto the right side of the road, and thats when I started to hear the left front tirerubbing hard on the fender, and smoke started rolling out from the burning rubber.  I drove it back gingerly to the shop where I discovered that the left front lower control arm had rusted almost through and severed nearly in half, it was held together by what essentially amounted to sheet metal.

  15. Posted · Edited by 68Beetle

    Thanks for the warm welcome.

     

    How can ZE seem too much like camping to you? The name of the mod is zombie escape...is quite pain painstakingly obvious that this involves ALOT of running...

     

    Regardless, welcome I guess...

    The last time I played ZE was a long time ago in a far away server (in css) with unlimited ammo, and the CT that lasted the longest was always the one that found a hidey hole with one entrance and would spray constantly. Ill check out the sg server, heard good things about it...

  18. Posted · Edited by 68Beetle

    Hey guys, Im Beetle.

     

    I have played in excess of 1k hours of css, though that doesn't mean I am good at anything :rolleyes:  I currently play exclusively on the bhop server.  sG 200tic 4lyfe. Never put in the time to learn any of the mods except ZE, which seems too much like camping to me lel.

     

    I have had several account over the past few years, so I also go by 68Beetle, volksjeep, 78Turbobrick, and most recently 71Beetle.  Each name corresponds to a vehicle I own, and I have another thread aboot the brick here >>http://www.joinsg.net/topic/60899-so-i-got-a-free-car/.  As you can tell, I am big into cars, and my most recently was a mechanic at a Volvo dealer for a few years.

     

    Im regular on the server, so I am friends with Blub, Agrippa, Raging, and Drama jr, to start.

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    Thanks driz and BLiNDBoi. Is that better?

     

    By buddy had been posting this on the old Volvo forum and found people filling to make a donation to the Green Machine, notably a solid aluminum intercooler (or aftercooler if you're picky) and a well used 3" Dynomax muffler.  We went on a road trip and picked up the cool new parts, and set to work.  I built some custom brackets for the intercooler, and had to go back to the junkyard to get more bendy piping, but it still fit behind the grille so we were in business. 

     

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    The exhaust was a bit more tricky.  I had to find a way to adapt 2.25" to 3", fit in the limited area, and seal.  I ended up with two flange adaptors, a flex pipe, and lots of welding, but it seals.  I cut the mounts off of the old exhaust and welded them to the new pipe, so it is hung by the stock rubber rings.  There ended up being no way to make the huge pipe fit over the rear axle with the materials I had, so I decided to have a side exit.  Conveniently there was already a large rust hole in front of the rear tire on the correct side so voila! I used a sawzall to cut the pipe off at an angle and it came out looking quite custom. :gangnam:

    After all that work, I was driving down the road and I started hearing Bang Ding Ow noises, so I pulled over. The way I had mounted the pipe held it up fine, but apparently it was still able to twist and allow the tip to drag on the ground, so I used a coat hanger as a sling under the tip to prevent future droopage. It rattles at idle, but it also idles rough so I don't really care.

     

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    Now the fun part. I had previously installed a wideband O2 sensor, so I could immediately see it was running lean (duh).  It would also only make ~2psi of boost.  I bought some microswitches with long levers from china, some cold start injectors from the junkyard, and some hobbs pressure switches from the seventies and rigged it so that at WOT, it would open the stock cold start injector and under 1.75psi of boost it would open the second injector, and at 4 psi it opens the third. Then it ran rich and low boost :l

     

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    stupid camara doesn't focus the way I want it to. you can see the bar stock I cut and sandwiched between two injectors for fuel lol.

     

    I then tightened the wastegate as far as it would go, but the boost levels didn't change.  At this point I decided to start removing the restrictive 1.75" exhaust. I removed the tailpipe muffler and middle muffler and it made little difference.  Then I decided to rip the whole rusted holy mess out, and couldn't resist a run round the block minus cat, open downpipe.  Wow what a difference. The loud turbo whistle, the loud resonance, and the boost!  Turns out the cat was plugged completely, because with the open downpipe it hit 11psi before it started to detonate and I let off. Totally worth it.

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    Yes. Don't touch it unless you know what you are doing.

    I agree. I had a go cart that I pulled the governor off of, and the engine lasted about a month after.

     

    Actually, I just helped a buddy of mine to assemble one of these a few weeks ago, though he bought a 6.5hp engine for some piece of lawn equipment, which was physically too large.  We had to cut the mount off the frame and reweld lower so it would clear the upper bars and scoot it off to the right about 2 inches, mount the centrifugal clutch backwards, and cut the spacers holding the rear wheel centered so we could move the wheel over to the left just so the sprocket would line up.

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