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- From: sircomp@bcarh289.bnr.ca (Brian Magee)
- Subject: Re: The FIRE breathing bug! Help!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204544.8110@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan21.014036.62968@cc.usu.edu> <HOLLEN.93Jan22093218@peg.megatek.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:45:44 GMT
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- In article <HOLLEN.93Jan22093218@peg.megatek.UUCP> hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
- >>>>>> On 21 Jan 93 01:40:36 MDT, slhmz@cc.usu.edu said:
- >
- >
- >Travis> I just found a 1972 super-beetle, 1500cc, sunroof for $200.
- >
- >Travis> The engine starts some of the time (not most of the time...), but when
- >Travis> it does, it has absolutely NO compression and blows flames (yes, actual
- >Travis> true to life fire) out the right tailpipe.
- >
- >Travis> The owner (soon to be previous owner) says that it is a ring problem.
- >Travis> But wouldn't bad rings just burn lots of oil?
- >
- >Travis> I think it is a really bad valve problem. What would cause a bug to
- >Travis> spit fire?
- >
- >Travis> Is it worth fixing? With all my VW engine probs, I've never come
- >Travis> across a fire breathing bug! Help!
- >
- >Well, I would look at it this way. You can get a longblock for $800
- >unless you want something fancy. You then have $1000 invested in a
- >sunroof super-beetle. Not bad. There will never be any more Beetles
-
- Or another option could be to buy an inspected, used engine. I remember
- reading of a place that buys VW engines from Germany, takes them apart
- to inpect them, and sells them turn-key in the US for VERY reasonable
- prices (<$800 ??? anyone, anyone...)
-
- >in the US and as they die, there will be less. Grab onto this baby
- >and fix it up. It's worth it.
-
- Ahh yes.. the reason that I will NEVER sell my '71 Super.. may not be
- worth much now... but it's a great car that has seen a lot of my sweat in
- restoring/customizing it! I'd love to have a steel-sunroof in mine!
- Just a question.. where is this '72 from? I thought that all supers
- had the 1600 engines? Or is this not the original engine?
-
- >
- >--
- >Dion Hollenbeck Email: hollen@megatek.com
- >Senior Software Engineer megatek!hollen@uunet.uu.net
- >Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California ucsd!megatek.uucp!hollen
-
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- Rob
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