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Engine rebuilding: Use good parts. This presupposes that you can recognize good parts, which none of us can, so you have to be careful and buy your parts from someone reputable. Heads: The original heads are fine as long as they're still okay. I have never bought a new head; all mine are OE. Use the right valves; either the intakes or the exhausts are supposed to have a chromed valve stem, I can never remember which it is, but the WRONG ones are commonly available out there. Exhausts are more expensive than intakes. Replace the guides. Oil: I recommend a full flow filter, but this takes some doing and it's not easy to do it right ohn 3. I can sell you a drawing of how to modify the crossbar for the special oil pump cover for $1, or do the mod on your crossbar for $40. Crank: I LOVE the counterweighted cranks that Berg welds up. If you have a good stock crank, Berg can modify it without regrinding it; this gives the strongest possible crank with the least high RPM flex. Case: Berg says to replace it, but I feel that he is talking about racing. I have always used GOOD used cases that I have sent to RIMCO to have case savers installed and to be align bored. They are quick, knowledgable, and very reasonably priced. Flywheel: Keep it stock. The added mass on a CW crank does not make up for the mass removed from the flywheel because it is not just mass; it is mass times (radius squared). Lightened flywheels are necessary for racing, but acutely reduce drivability on the street. Read a good book before you start. I recommend this one: How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines by Bill Fisher published by H. P. Books, Tucson, AZ, 1970 ISBN 0-912656-03-4 (excellent book, well written and researched) Of course you should not attempt this without the Bentley manual: Volkswagen Official Service Manual Type 3 Fastback and Squareback 1968-1973 published by Robert Bentley, Cambridge, Mass, 1974 ISBN 0-8376-0057-X / LPV 997 383 / VSQU (excellent book, complete and well written) You need to understand most of what is in both of these (regarding engines) before you start. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe