71-BEETLE-SEDAN

i have one here, for sale if you want, pressure plate and clutch, brand spanking excedy, never even used. Sorry if its hi-jacking

okay all, so I'm up to doing the valve seals, how do i get the spring retainers etc back on????? Ive tried everything possible. I don't wanna have to buy that tool that Ive found people say is useful. spring loaded or something. Ive got the old ones off etc and now i need the new springs back in so i can get this thing done. I'm after even just a picture of the way others have done it. I'm at my wits end with this bit, everything else is easy as. Cheers

So after having to buy two more 10 mm sockets, because the four bolts that hold the valve covers on needed a deep socket, so bought one yesterday, got the cams out and then my 12 point wouldn't fit down to the head bolts, so now i got 3 ten mm sockets. But its fair to say Ive definitely done the head-gasket on this thing. But on a good point picked up my new water pump, thermostat, timing belt, oil, filter, gearbox oil, new braided line for my oil cooler, catch can, thermos and some of the coolant hoses from auto pro. Will get photos of that later.

Not a track car, just that no one else is ever in the car with me. So if i am comfortable with it then its good. I am thinking that a new alloy or at least new stock radiator, new hoses all round, new thermostat, new water pump, new coolant, extra thermos, relocated oil cooler, new gaskets all round. Should fix the issue. Mainly because well what else could cause the car to overheat? This car has no air-con already, so at the moment air flow is front bar, oil cooler, radiator.

i was going to heck the water temp with a thermometer, but my radiator has a funny cap and sometimes wont open very easily when hot, so i put it hard against the core and it was around the 100'c. So definitely getting hot. Ive been reading up on some track drift cars for my own one and have read about a lot of people removing their heaters.Is this a smart idea for a daily, besides the fact i wont be able to warm the inside of the car up. But i often like to flick the heater to on while doing mountain runs etc to get that little bit of extra cooling. Would this be saving my ass r just making inside the car hotter then it needs to be. I am also borderline on getting an alloy rad with twin thermos, yay or nay?

So heads on its way off now. Thought id throw up some pics of the cai while I'm taking snaps of the bay. So here the view from inside the wheel arch, looking forwards. This is how much of the tubing you can see under the front bar. This is the view from above and inside the engine bay. No to the head, i took the rocker covers off and the front one had plenty of oil coating nce and wet. The intake or rear side had dry/baked on oil. Is this normal? Anyway to fix this? Front Rear

Thought so. Well lucky ive got a half built cylinder head here, ready to go on.

Well i just got off the pone with the local auto pro, new thermostat, one to open at a lower temp, new water pump, valve seals, blowing a fair bit of smoke, timing belt, and already got a head gasket and new bolts. The radiators exterior looks in great nick, but when i open the cap there seems to be a brown goo on top of the coolant. Like an oily substance. Could i have oil leaking into my water, not the other way round like a normal head gasket failure?

Soooooo, The cars running hot now. I wired up myself a switch, i like the car to run at around 1/3 of the temp gauge, so id flick the switch to the thermo fan on at about 1/4 and it would run at 1/3 all day, hard driving and stop start. Worked like a dream, for like 3 weeks. Now the car runs a fraction above half, with heaters on full, thermo on, and cruising at like 100 in fifth(for good airflow). Normally i could flick the thermo off and it would run at around 1/4 on the freeway. Now Ive drained the coolant, flushed the cooling system, refilled, made the mix of coolant, 33% water, to the specs on the bottle. What could it be or what could i test to see whats wrong. Could my thermostat be stuck closed? Cheers if anyone can help.

Going down to the wreckers now to gets me a new ecu. Also, the car is blowing quite a bit of smoke on start up and also when I'm fair up it, so most the time. So I'm gonna deck my second head up, new valves/seals/shave it, etc etc. But I'm also thinking i may as well do the whole motor, i remember hearing that a set of pistons car be had for like under $200. What pistons should i get? There is some on eBay for like $160, are they any good, anyone had experience. Other then that the cars still the same

So i got some electrical gauges today, and to wire up the a/f ratio one i want to use the signal wire to the ecu, inside the cabin to make less mess in engine bay. So knowing that everyone says he pin outs are under the lid of the ecu i pulled the ecu out and cover off to find this. Car runs fine, never had an issue with it. And Ive plugged it back in and still runs fine. What should i do? And anyone got a copy of the pin outs, mines missing :(

Heres my paddock basher. Needs the diff welded and a new clutch, then were gunna take it to eastern creek for some skid pan fun.

Oh about the cams, did not know that. I'm thinking ill stay away from engine mods just yet cause i don't really want it off the road just yet. The idle issues seems to have gone away now hat i let it warm up a touch before i drive it. So dunno what that means. As for tyres i went same size as the ones on it now, 195/50R15, but I'm looking at some other rims, same size and everything, just different look, they're black with red highlights, so would suit the car well. So if someone wants some 15 inch rims and tyres they can. They have an offset of 45. I haven't actually looked under the car at all really, quite odd for me, normally Ive got em torn apart in minutes. But i will have to check next time I'm working on it. I might have a play around with the camber, is this the same on the rear end? And front strut brace it has rear seams good enough already so yeah, guess Toyota did their homework there. Havent stripped the interior yet, its coming though, will be leaving not much at all. Will post some photos of the intake and other little mods Ive done lately, ie bonnet pins,

Coil overs = Ordered Tyres = Ordered Intake = In process. Where do people get high flowing air cleaners from, Ive tried all over the internet and nothing to suit the stock air box, I'm about to go down to the wreckers get me a civic air box, or something that they make high flows for and fit it up to my car, or is there another source out there? And Ive ordered some flex i tubing to run some brake ducts and a path for cold air straight into the intake box.

Yeah its got a front strut brace, what about a rear? It was odd, ive driven a charade around the same corner and harder and never had it happen, guess this one is just lighter or something. The car seems to have some pretty fat sway bars on it already, Whats the factory size for these cars front and back. The car already has some pedders shocks and lowering springs, maybe ill sell em to buy the coil-overs, where am i searching for bazda? Chuur