Re: [T3] Engine number

["Brad Mularcik" <BnPWOODtype3@att.net>]

<x-flowed>Thank you all for your input.

Jim,
   You are right.  Pretty much all of my shrouding is in place.  I am 
actually missing one piece that I am hoping someone in the group can sell 
me.  I need the shroud that covers the belt and generator pulley.  My belt 
and pulley are exposed.  That place DDB said that they can sell me any of it 
that I want, but I would buy it from one of you if I could. (Perhaps one of 
you is them)



   When looking at the DDB website at their powder coated shrouding, I saw 
several pictures of engines that had what appeared to be non stock crankcase 
breathers.  Can anyone tell me what my options are in this area.  In my 
rebuild, I am wanting to dress up the engine appearance so that since it is 
going to die young from overheating it will be a good looking corpse.  My 
breather is pretty dirty and oily.  Can I disassemble it to clean it up and 
repaint?  Can I replace it with something non stock?  I am concerned here 
because the fan shroud is supported pretty substatially by the breather 
assembly.
   I am planning to clean all of the shrouding (hopefully borrow the use of 
a sand blaster).  I want to then repaint it.  Any suggestions on the type of 
paint / primer?

   Any way to dress up the appearance of the fuel pump?

   As for the heating concerns regarding my Type 3 engine in my dunebuggy, 
all of the points made are good.  I also discussed this with a guy I know 
who is into Beetles.  The only thing that I do not see at this point is how 
the Type3 engine is any different from a Type 1 engine in THIS application? 
Neither engine has the seperation of cool air vs. warm air that they have in 
the stock application.  MANY dunebuggies are run sucessfully on Type 1 
engines.

   I am considering an extra remote oil cooler.  Any suggestions on where 
to plumb this?  In series with the stock cooler seems dificult to do.  I was 
thinking in series with my remote full flow filter.

Any suggestions on a make of full flow filter kit?

Thanks for you time.
Brad Mularcik



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] Engine number


> On 12 Apr 2005 at 18:39, Aaron Clow wrote:
>
> > Jim Adney wrote:
> >
> > >It's tempting to assume that when the car is moving, the hot air won't 
> > >have a
> > >chance to accumulate back there like that, but that's not at all clear. 
> > >There's
> > >often a "dead volume" behind the car which is just carried along with 
> > >the car.
> > >That's the space where the type 3 engine gets its cooling air, and much 
> > >of the
> > >air that's fed into this volume is the hot air that has just come out of 
> > >the
> > >cooling system.
>
> > Not only that, but doesn't the whole air ducting system effectively
> > FORCE air to hit the spots that need it?
>
> My impression is that he still has most/all of his ducting in place, at 
> least
> from the fan onwards. Because the fan stirs things up pretty much, I don't
> think the ducting that preceeds the fan has much effect on where the air 
> goes
> on the engine; it only determines where that air comes from.
>
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> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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