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Good thing its april fools day or I'd be having nightmares over this for weeks!! I was gonna do a post on how I found this corvair engine and was getting all kinds of radical ideas for the square... Keith ---------- From: Curt Dilday <cdilday@mail.win.org> To: 'Type 3 list' <type3@vwtype3.org> Subject: [T3] Spring is here, time for new projects! Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:14 AM Hey all! A bud in Tennessee told me about a stash of air cooled parts he found in a shed behind a local shop last week, and I asked him to root through and see if he could find÷ O0rly dual carb insulating gaskets I've been looking for. He mailed back and he found them....attached to a 66 squareback that was under a tarp in the back!!! Good shape too. The ODO reads ~23700 miles, original? Who knows! It's got old looking Continental tires with good tread on them though. Apparently the owner of the shop recently acquired it, and didn't know much about it. From the looks of some missing linkage it seems that someone had attempted a carburetor fix, got stymied by something and parked it. From the dust on the tarp that must have been a long time ago. The shop guy seemed interested in getting rid of it, and said I could make an offer for all the "crap" including the car. I told him I'd be doing him a favor by "taking out his trash", but there's some parts I'd been looking for in the bunch that I'd been prepared to pay for, to be fair I'd pay him $300. AND HE SAID YES!!!! WooHoo!!! It should be on it's way to my friend's garage as I type, stuffed with parts. Now, what to do with it? I've got a good 'back already, so this baby seems ripe for experimentation. My wife April suggested "You've always wanted a baja, quit whining and do it!" Yes ma'am, never let it be said that I don't do what I'm told. ;-) I've already got and idea of what I want to do, but I wanted to get some opinions, tips, suppliers, etc. Planned mods: Lift kit, cut the roof off and install a full length roll cage, cut the fenders to fit monster mud tires, nerf bars, and retrofitting late model turn signals and brake lights (they're bigger and better--safety!). In keeping with the "driveable Hot Wheels" theme, it will be dechromed de-handled, and sprayed Corvette Candy Apple Red metalflake, and a bitchin fake hood scoop. If I'm not broke after all that I'll toss on a chrome skull shift knob with illuminated eyes, and maybe a golden bejeweled fist air freshener. For power I'm gonna use the project motor I've been fooling with: An upright 1641 with machined heads for more compression, dual 45drla Dè/,carbs, a big cam, and a stinger exhaust. I figger without the roof the upright should cool well, though I might have to open up the engine compartment a bit to accommodate the monster Dell's. Another question I had for y'all.. Is the candy red paint cool? I was thinking canary yellow with flames would be an alternative. I'll probably toss most of the extra parts (useless FI stuff), except perhaps a big box of FI fuel pumps. Rocky Mountain Motorworks sells them for $300, so I'll let ya steal them off me for $250. Is it just me or is it getting..."dark" in here? Peace! Curt ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe ----------