RE: [T3] upgrades to stock-FI motor?

[Matthew Jones <m@vw1600e.org.uk>]

<x-flowed>I've just rebuilt my '73 FI motor.

It has a CB counterweighted crank (which required an 8 dowel stock  
flywheel). Being stock stroke, the only thing this effects is  
mechanical vibration and maybe pickup when you floor it. No effect on  
the FI at all.
I got the whole rotating assembly dynamically balanced & rods matched  
for weight. I CCd the heads and they were the same +- 0.5cc (as  
accurate as I could measure!).

It runs very smoothly now, 400 miles on the clock.

I have never seen the point of 1641. 4% increase in CC? You'd get that  
much increase in power just from new rings, on a tired motor, or a  
good tune up. Not worth the extra bucks IMHO.

Others will comment on the cam & CC.

--
Matt. UK.
'73 1600e FB.

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