This is my dream oval. What sort of power are you expecting from this fabulous type I?

Thanks!

I'm hoping to make 215-225 hp, somewhere in that range. Was making about 180 before. It's a pump-gas daily driver At least it was, and will be again soon

Progress is slow as molasses. My heads are ported but the LS-1 springs wouldn't support the lift I'm going to be running, so Darren is going to try some from a different manufacturer that should allow more. I'll be lifting ~.630-.650 at the valve, so I need coil bind to be around .7", no small task for a spring that will fit a VW head...

In the mean time, I coated the inside of my new tank with Por-15 tank sealer. I think it came out pretty good, I guess I'll find out, lol. It leaves a nice silver finish so you can see where it's coated.



I primed and painted the outside of the tank too. Between coats I polished a spare gas cap I had. Not exactly a mirror finish, but a big improvement...



I got the tank mounted in the car, plumed up the the new AN lines, the sender installed, and the Dehne gauge all wired up.

For reference, here's my old tank, spotless on the inside, but solid rust on the outside. It's a perfect tank though, so I'll hold onto it.

Looks good Brian

Looking good! Can't wait to see this thing...

wow, cool car!

I spent about half the day at Darren's shop on Saturday modifying my IDAs and porting my Berg intake manifolds. The manifolds are basically done, they just need a little welding. On the carbs, we drilled the 3rd progression holes for better drivability and opened up the idle air jets...


Opened up the dead space in the bodies for more float bowl volume.....



and modified the inlets for less restriction...


Funny story about my heads... Darren was supposed to have them done Saturday, but when he was assembling them his valve compressor slipped and one of the special keepers I supplied shot across his shop, never to be found I ordered some replacements today and had them overnighted to his shop so he can assemble them tomorrow. In the mean time, I brought one of the heads home for test fitting.

New L7 CNC heads...


Pauter 1.5 rockers....


Measuring lift at the valve and figuring out pushrod length. Lift at the valves is over .650" That's a 10th of an inch more than I had before with the old cam and rockers, lol.


Checking valve-to-piston clearance, with Playdoh, lol. Plenty of room, about 1/8 inch, so no need to notch the pistons



Tonight I'm going to re-assemble the IDAs and try to take care of some other odds and ends. Heads should be done tomorrow

The Chinese castings look pretty good in photos.

Are you planning on having it running for this weekend? We fly in on Thursday morning if you need a hand.

yeah, they did a good job on those castings, they're very nice.

I do hope to have it ready for the Classic, but with less than a week to go, its hard to say if it will happen. One way or the other though, it will be great to have her back on the road, its been waaaaay too long!
And thanks for the offer, I'll probably be taking you up on that! looking forward to seeing you guys.

Very cool Brian. That is going to be a beast for sure.