RE: [T3] How do you go so fast?

[James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>]

Yeah, I had a 68 steel sunroof Beetle with a 1776 with 40mm Dellortos and a
two-step cam, ported heads and one of those geometrically challenged
headers, and it'd do about 105 without too much trouble, actually 'hit'
second gear all the time.  It climbed 'the Hill' like a champ (beating
Mustang 5.0's and such - talk about surprised looks!).

I was referring to a *stock* VW, though.  I'd be surprised if they could do
it.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	LaRoucheD1@aol.com [SMTP:LaRoucheD1@aol.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, 2 December 1998 12:07
	To:	type3@vwtype3.org
	Subject:	Re: [T3] How do you go so fast?

	In a message dated 12/02/1998 11:48:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
	JMac@uglyduckling.com writes:

	<< I have never seen a stock air-cooled VW do better than about 87
mph >>

	My 1970 Beetle with a worn out 1600 single-port would do 90 mph, The
	compression on the highest cylinder was 80 and the lowest was 30.
Don't know
	how it did it but it did. I got busted by radar enough times to know
that my
	speedo was accurate also.
	When I put a 1641 in it, it would do 110 and cruise at 100. It had
stock
	crank, rods, case, lifters etc. Had aftermarket headers, carbs,
distributor,
	and cam with 041 heads with 39 X 32 valves. Would do 30 in 1st, 55
in 2nd and
	85 in 3rd. Had that engine in two different bugs and it ran great
until the
	flywheel came loose and tore up the crank. The flywheel coming loose
was my
	fault due to a moment of stupidity.(I had to replace the clutch
because it
	twisted the center out of the clutch disc and put a wrong gasket in
between
	the flywheel and crank which didn't let the nut torque down all the
way)
	Sorry if I seem long winded or like I'm bragging, but that was the
first
	engine I ever built (about 12 years ago) and am very proud of it and
I wanted
	to explain what happened to it so some wouldn't think that it
self-destructed.
	VWs can go fast and do it reliably providing it's done right.

	David
	71 Squareback

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