Re: [T3] oil cooler and sagging torsion bars? STORY

["Leon Martinez B." <martinezl@icanet.com.mx>]

I personally think the sump that adds my extra two quarts 
is very good for me. I drive like a madman and it has been 
almost two years since I have had this car, my first VW ever.
I was always a Detroit monster fanatic and I have broken 
new motormounts and forged cranks off Big blocks. I fix 
everything on any of my cars including my VW. 

I am a very bad menace with cars. Today I have driven 
my square to 100 miles an hour (FOR TEN MINUTES) around 4:00 
clock in the morning when some car decided to tail gate me at 
all lanes. I left him way back since he was afraid of speed. 
I shift all of my automatics as if it was a stickshift. I
keep first gear in this car in up to 35 to 40 miles an hour 
when I want to pass someone at the light or sign daily. I have 
put 55,000 miles in this engine after it was rebuilt a year and 
half ago. I have not touched the engine at all for almost 
this amount of time. I Change my oil every 10,000 miles
or more, sometimes. I have not adjusted my swivel adjusters 
since my rebuild. I am not exagerating. My brothers 
laugh at me everytime I destroy another engine from 
any of my cars , I must have had 20 cars by now including two 
Volvos. Never had an accident before. I drive like this on dirt 
trails too. I buy only used cars  
because it is cheaper to break those. You guys probably 
hate me for the TYPE 3 sinning , just think of this as 
a durability test, I will let you know when I throw a rod 
or blow the engine up in a firey death. Next thing I am
planning to do is add a liquid propane carburator to 
the inlet of my EFI trottle body manifold so my car will
run on gasoline and/or EFI when I want to. This will cost
me 300 bucks in Mexico. If my engine goes beyond 100k and
still works strong I will itemize in painful details
all I have done to my EFI engine case etc ... to see
if duplication of this will be called upon from you guys.

When I first got the car , Smoke used to come out of the 
oil filler tube when I checked my oil temp by touching the
dipstick. This oil always developed black chunks. The oil 
always turned black after five days of driving .After this 
I installed the sump and continued driving wildly. Now , no
more smoke came out of my dipstick tube and my oil was cooler 
to the touch. But my engine was damaged anyway after the 
drivings , melted heads and no oil pressure, so after running on
3 cylinders for two months, I rebuilt the engine. I did some
fine "tuning" to different aspects of my engine.
After the rebuild I still installed the sump. Still no smoke out
my oil. This is a stock 1600 beleive it or not.

Why I am telling you my story ? Well I think the more oil in the 
engine the better. The oil lasts longer so the engine last longer.
It takes longer for the oil to heat up and overheat. It may also 
take longer for the oil to cool off if it overheated.
Old fashion non coolered Autotrnnny's such as mine had
larger oil capacities to compensate for the overheating.
My dodge truck autotranny has a very flat insipid oil pan
compared to my VW's deep 'large' capacity pan .
Better cooling protection from bigger pan was placed instead
of the more modern radiator cooled tranny oil system.
My rambler aslo has a tranny with no cooling provisions but
has a bigger oil pan. Conclusion ??? Bigger sump is somehow better.
After four months of this I added an oil cooler and electric fan
and an oil filter. Placed a speaker magnet in the sump too.
Lot of oil I say! to prevent major engine maladys. So far my
engine for some reason feels stronger than before and I think 
the break in has passed long ago. It could be that carbon in the
heads have raised the compression as well as the gaps on my 
forgotten plugs has incresed ,causing bigger spark from my 
big coil, thus better burn. Temp gauge never goes to the middle
no matter what ! Engine Angels ?????

I boast about my car so much because it runs better than 
my Eddie Baur Bronco II and my old Ford Escort ever did.
Those two cars recently are in car hell now , 
both engines blew bad.

Remember the more oil the better, take it 
from an experienced engine destroyer. 

By the way, this weekend, I will adjust my swivel 
rocker adjusters for the first time and change my
engine oil and autotranny fluid, I need to analyze
these and also cut the filter open for autotopsy.
Past findings show that I could not find any 
material in the filter except silicon rubber
pieces and nothing to clean off the magnet.
This is after the few oil changes I have ever
done. I do not wish to mention what I did 
to possibly cause the oil to be clean, some of you 
will want to ring my neck.

The sump did kill my clearance somewhat on my 
standard height. I tore my little sump cover
on a Baja run to a village in mexico, this is
a long strange story in itself, maybe for later 
if someone asks. Anyhow , I raised my rear 
with the aid of airshocks from JC Whitney
and wella ! No more under engine desruction 
by boulders ! Worth it if you raise, very bad
if you lower it.

On torsion bars, I only raised my car with 
torsion bars notches on the front. On the
rear I raised it with airshocks , pumped
to 170 pounds air pressure. I will raise
my rear with the splines in the comming
months. I have seen raised TYPE 3 cars in Mexico,
They call them baja'd Squarebacks , I even saw 
one that was a front runner for the Baja 
1000 so they say , it looked very serious
with some very wild things done to the engine.
One of the members of the TYPE 3 club of San
Diego has a Baja'd Square. 

I wish to keep my car to original height like
the old adverts show. It is  somewhat stock
height but some people would think it is raised
because they lower theirs. Thats the way it was
in the old days. No sagging look. 

Yeah you can raise your rear but ask the 
guys who have done it, for tips on what to do.


I KNOW , WAY TOO MUCH WRITING, I WAS JUST BORED.

So stand by and find out when my engine is 
destroyed. Maybe my engine angels will keep it 
going beautifully. Any betting going on out there ??

Hey Russ, maybe I will finish those cad 
pictures next week , I have been horribly 
busy. Oh yeah ! This government guy is
working for his money now days !


LEON MARTINEZ

1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO
SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA










 

















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