06 May Basic head porting
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Editor's note: No matter what type of engine you are building, weather it is a mildly-tuned 1600cc daily driver, or...
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05 May Building a Reliable and Powerful Street Engine III
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The power is in the Heads! It is often said that the secret to a well performing engine is in the...
05 May Building a Reliable and Powerful Street Engine II
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To the camshaft..and beyond. The next item in the lower end of the engine to consider is the camshaft. The California...
05 May Building a Reliable and Powerful Street Engine Part I
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Over the last decade or so (or, at the very least, since 1995) the Volkswagen sub-culture has relished the re-birth...
04 May Fitting a 901 Porsche Tranny to an IRS Beetle Chassis
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Editor's Note: Many people want to fit their Beetles with a 5 speed tranny. The two most popular methods are...
04 May Adapting Non-VW Wheels
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While it was not an easy swap, I feel that it was well worth the effort. I went from "just...
04 May Building a Fast and Reliable Engine
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By Mark Herbert I think building a large displacement VW engine has almost become an art form. Bore, stroke, rod length,...
04 May How to Make a Streetcar Launch
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This article assumes that most who will read this wants to, or has, a real street car not running slicks...
04 May Choosing the Right Distributor
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Aircooled VW owners have an assortment of options when choosing a distributor for their engine. If you only look on...
08 May Adding Bump to Your Stick and Squish to Your Dish Part IV
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In Part I of our high performance engine building series, we looked at the process of tearing down an engine...
07 May Adding Bump to Your Stick and Squish to Your Dish Part II
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As indicated before, the purpose of this four-part series of articles is to show you the detailed process of building...
06 May Adding Bump to Your Stick and Squish to Your Dish Part III
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In Part I of our high performance engine building series, we looked at the process of tearing down an engine...