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On 12 Mar 2004 at 10:57, +ACI-Schlegel, Richard+ACI- wrote: > Why do I get the impression this group is NOT into customizing their > type 3? Nothing wrong with that. This group is very knowledgeable but > anytime someone mentions doing anything other than stock it seems to be > frowned on. There really are two camps on this. I don't mind improvements, but most of what's done is just copycat mods. Others are just following what the market is trying to sell them, even when the market is selling junk. 009s and Blue coils are good examples of that. There ARE good examples of customized cars here, and strong proponents for them. Brian's pink roadster is a good example of a car that was going to be either scrapped or customized, so he did something with it that no one else had done. There's nothing wrong with carbs, but there's no point in removing a perfectly good (or easily fixed) FI system only to replace it with a poorly matched carb system. I'd feel the same way about removing a perfectly good carb system only to replace it with a cobbled up Frankinjector system. For me, I look to see what kind of thought has gone into it, no matter which direction it is headed. I think Bob Hoover wrote up what a new owner should do with his car, and his suggestion was to make a list in order of importance of things you wanted to do to it. Once the list is finished you should go back and see if "get THIS engine running well" and "get the brakes working well" were the first 2 and that "installing a really boss sound system was below # 8. If you pass those two tests, you're probably on the right track. If not, you need to spend more time thinking about your list. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org