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<x-charset iso-8859-1> After all of this time of driving 125 miles per day I now will be easier on my car. My mother has just retired from work so I will not take her back and forth any longer, that will mean less mileage on my car but I do miss the company. I have also received a special pass to cross the Mexican border everyday so I will not have to wait at all to cross the border, the wait used to be over two hours at the worst and 20 to 30 minutes at the best, you guessed it, it is getting worse as time passes because of world events. I will not miss the wait. Less wear on my car, even so. Now I am driving 70 total miles, at most, per day, I have fixed my odometer. I was used to 125 miles per day, at least. My car still works very nice but has the occassional early morning hydraulic lifter knock but goes away after a few minutes. I will probably need to adjust the one lifter into a better hydrsulic sweet spot. After that it is nice and quiet all day. After I sanded (aluminim oxide) the comutator in the generator, I no longer ate anymore brushes (4 per week ) , the American made brush has proven harder than the German or Brazilian, scratching it with a finger nail is much more difficult. My temps are still odd between right cylinders and left. At 90 MPH for 20 minutes, cylinders 1 and 2 stay at a good 350 degrees , while cylinders 2 and 3 get to 470 degrees !!!! My sensors are located on the top head bolts nearest the exhaust on cylinders 1 and 3. Typically the sensor was to be placed under the spark plucg as per instructions. I have always noticed that more air flows on the 1 and 2 cylinders than on the 3 and 4 cylinders . I placed my hand in the air outlet and blast of air comes from the 1 and 2 but on 3 and 4 it is much less (yes I have checked the flaps including other cars). Is this due the way the fan turns and throws the air and the angle difference the air has to go, compared to the other side ? Try carefully feeling the air to see what I mean. Probably a design limitation, the reason why some folks have more problems with #3 on our cars too, though much less than old bugs ? I have one "problem" with my car ever since I switched to the present hydraulic performance cam. My car will accelerate quite well but when I hit 70 to 75 miles an hour there seems to be a flat (smooth , no hesitation) spot of power and the car will not accelerate any more on hills on the freeway, acceleration on flat terrain is much weaker but it will not hesitate, acts like it had a governer assembly. After I am able to pass the 75 mile an hour mark, many horse power seems to be added and the car would accelerate quite well till 90 to 93 miles an hour then accelartion begins to lose it's vigor. Did not exist before the new cam , everything else is the same. Maybe not a problem or is it just a characteristic of airflow , volumetric efficiency ? LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO 1967 FASTY PROJECT SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>