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I don't think anybody said no to your idea. Just nobody really responded to it.

This is what I think, I have no data to back it up except for what I've seen. I think the female to male population online is vastly swung to the male side. I think it's because girls are either 1. way to shy to go onto sites like this, 2. are afraid of getting stalked even though it's totally safe (post fake info), 3. girls just don't try computer related things as much as guys do. I don't mean to be sexist by any means but look at the way the computer related field is made up. My mom was a computer programmer and that's what I do to and the field is field with 10 guys to every female at least. Look at forums, there's usually more guys on forums than chicks are, and gaming has more guys than chicks. It's just a thing that isn't done by girls for some reason or another. Switch that over to all things online and you get dating sites that are flooded with guys. I've asked a few chicks on dating sites how many messages a day they get and some of them say around 20-30 A DAY. INSANE! Me, I'll get one message a year. It's pretty crappy being a guy and trying to find a mate online at least. I've pretty much given up trying to meet anybody online. Sending messages that have varied from a whole page long to a couple of sentences nothing has worked, at least on the dating sites. Finding somebody here is laughable. Go to the meetings area and just look. If a chick wanted to find somebody to go out with all they have to do is go there and they'd have a whole field of guys for which they could hand pick. I have yet to try any kind of paid dating site and I hear those are better BECAUSE they are not flooded with people who just sign up to look for women but I'm not sure on that. I might try one in the next year or so if this new job I just got doesn't poke up some interest. I'm sure there are guys on here that only post when they want to meet some lady.

It'd look cleaner with the drive by wire though.

no problem. i'm always looking at home made ways of doing things to cut out sending anything out.

75 bucks for the block attachment. As for the cleaning. The charge comes from a battery charger from harbour freight. 6v and 6amps. Here's all the pics I took of it. Post it all on the vortex. http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4816475

Yeah, all TDI's are drive by wire.

I could make one up for you if you paid for materials and some extra for my time. I think I have everything except for the 1/4" plate. I made this two days ago to clean a block using electrolysis.

The MK3 all have mechanical adjustment for the timing. There's four bolts that the injection pump to the bracket and if you loosen them it allows the pump to be turned advanced or retarded a certain amount. The MK4's might be electrical but I think they are the same way. It also depends if you are referring to the Pump Duse TDI's. I think those are all electrical since the main timing of those is done through the cam. As for older air cooled VWs. I used to have a '71 Bus that I took on the BABE Rally. I am looking for another bus right now. I LOVE THE BUSES! I'd kill for a split window but they are really expensive and I'm poor. I'm mainly looking at a 76-79 bus because they came with the 6-rib tranny. I want to do a VR6 swap into it and drop it to the ground on something like 18's or 20's. Totally rat rod it out with some shiney rims.

It's a pain in the arse. That's all I gotta say. I hate timing my TDI. Granted my TDI was abused by the previous owner. I had to re-key the crank pulley so it's off slightly which puts the timing gear off a tad. Just make sure you have Vag-com is it's a Mk3 or Mk4 otherwise you won't be able to get it where it's supposed to be. You NEED vag-com, there's no other way to do it. There's a little graph you open that tells you where you are timing wise.

I wish I had access to all that stuff. I only have what I've bought so far and being 25 with no family that does this kind of stuff it's been hard to spend all the money on all the tools. Hobart Handler 187 MIG w/ 75/25 tank, Hopefully getting an Argon tank soon Craftsman Multi-Speed Drill Press (Small), Wish I had a big one Milwaukee Chop Saw Milwaukee 9" Angle Grinder Task Force 4.5" Angle Griner Harbour Freight Vertical/Horizontal Band Saw, Great cheap piece if you replace the blade and put quality lube in it Bench Grinder and Vice of course Northern Tool Saw'z'all Still would love to have a plasma cutter or just a quality drill press with good bits/hole saws. Making flanges from 1/4" plate doesn't go to smoothly with the small drill press I have. Here's two things I just made recently. 1. Piano man from car parts 2. VW VR6 engine stand mount.

Cooling system, you stick two smaller radiators in the air intake ducts in the rear or else you can mount 1-2 radiators under the bus with slim line fans. There's tons of space under there. For the hubs and breaks. The fronts are discs already since all bus's '71 and up came with discs. Re-drill the fronts, slide them on, and make a quick adapter plate for the fronts to bolt the caliper on. Pretty easy. The rear, I'd have to some research on but the spindles in the back would be swapped out for disc spindles of course from a Porsche or something and then I would make adapters for the rear calipers. Sure there are aftermarket kits to do bigger all discs brakes but they all cost an arm and a leg. Once you are able to fabricate things it's so much easier and cheaper, assuming you already have the parts. I have two sets of front calipers and rotors and one set of rear calipers and rotors for a MK3 so the items are already here. A brake kit would probably cost somewhere in the range of 1k+. For me to adapt it'd only cost a few hundred.

I've seen that bus before and yeah, it's basically a modified 911 or something with a bus shell on top. I wouldn't be racing the bus though. I used to have a 71 and the HP in a stock air cooled engine is some what lacking to say the least. A VR6 in stock form is just fine and I'd swap over to the MK3 VR6 braking components too. The bus weighs the same amount as a MK3 so the braking components from the MK3 would be perfect. The only thing I don't have in my garage to upgrade would be suspension components but those are fairly cheap for buses and I'd be dropping it on the ground any wyas.

I'm a huge fan of the VR6 engine and I'd love to get a bus again and plop one into the rear. I measured the block and it'd fit pretty neatly into the engine bay of a bay window bus but the main problem I had with it was that the bus trannies probably couldn't take the power unless I upgraded them substantially. I'd like to see if there is a Porsche tranny that could take the power and would swap right in place of the bus tranny. If so then I'd probably undertake the swap some day and slap a really early spooling turbo onto it for some real get up and go. maybe do some bus wheelies. Main reason for the huge VR6 fandom is that they are cheap (used engines and parts), they are really overly built motors (compare main bearing caps to other V6's and V8's for that matter), can take 500whp before needing internal upgrades (another note on it's stoutness), and they are a very compact engine (about 1" longer than a VW water cooler four cylinder and are as wide as a 16v). If that was swapped into a bus I think I'd never drive anything again. The low torque is awesome for a bus and it's increased rev range would make air cooled gearing great for road trips but I'd have to see about the whole tranny selection. Some day I'll make my bus. No way in hell I'll make my dream bus though. That'd be a split window bus and I could never afford to buy one that was in any kind of good shape and I don't have the skills (yet) to do all the body work to restore one. Right now I'm doing a VR6 swap into an Audi A4 Quattro.

I'm 25 and I still get spooked out from the dark. I know it's just in my head but I start thinking about all the scary movies like Hell Raiser, The Grudge, The Exorcist, etc. and I start envisioning things. Never has gone away. Kinda weird but it only happens when I think about it. Most of the time I don't think about it at all and I'll be walking through my house at night with no lights on at all but when I do I get freaked out and start looking behind me, checking corners, and rushing through the house.

I have the same feelings as Sara_AB. Not fitting into the nitch fully but having this "different" fetish that most people would view as obscure. I have no desire for people to know about it except for whoever I am going to be with in a relationship. That's something that scares me.

I've spent a good amount of money on my welder. The welder itself is a Hobart Handler 187. I wish I had got a Miller for the cheaper spool guns but I would have paid 100-200 bucks more so I guess it'd be about even price wise. Other than the spool gun price attachment it's an awesome welder. It's been steady so far and has welded everything I've thrown at it. Thickest thing being 1/4". I wish I could afford a TIG welder but that's out of the picture. So far the 650 for the welder plus 100 for the tank and then 30-60 bucks here and there for tips, gas refills, wire, etc. It's not cheap at all. Then ya need gloves (20-40), helmet 100, and if you have long hair like me it's wise to get a hair cap of some sort. I guess the main cost in all of it is of course material. In the long run it saves but I still don't have a decent stock pile of scrap metal and I've been doing it for over a year now. All this and I haven't even mentioned things like wire wheels, angle grinders, band saws, and all their consumables. Deburring tools and what not. It's insane how much I've spent on tools already. It pays off in the end when you can make stuff up easily at the house and don't have to run out every minute to have someobdy else do it.

Just wondering if there are any metal fabricators on here. <3

Sounds like an awesome beetle. Post up some pics of the engine/turbo build.

I've always been jealous of the girls in this aspect. Being a sissy I wish I wasn't so big with my feet and shoulders. My feet are a size 11 in mens and my shoulders are just wide as the golden gate bridge. It makes for crossdressing very bad.

The longevity and the turboability of the vr6 is insane. The vr6 can take 500-600whp with stock internals. To make a 6-12 psi early boost turbo setup on a vr6 would be really easy and insanely awesome for daily driving around 300-350whp and it's last all day, all week, all year. Just need a transmission that could hold up to the power and the bus tranny definitely could not. Also the aftermarket for the vr6 is a lot cheaper than the porsche stuff making it a lot cheaper to sustain 300-350whp. As for my TDI. I plan on staying with my TDI setup for a very long time. Even if the block craps out on me I'll just bore it out and start fresh over again.

MK3's ended in mid '99. I had a 1999 Jetta GLX. I'm really wanting to get a VW Bus and drop either a TDI into it or else a VR6. Both make great torque. I'd really prefer the TDI though because of it's great gas mileage and it's a hell of a lot simpler. There's also a company that offers a bell housing adapter for it to attach to the Bus tranny but I think I'd drop in some Porsche tranny because I doubt the Bus tranny could hold 300+ ft/lb of torque at such low rpms. Here are some pics of my BABE Rally Bus.

I really want to get another bus again. I miss mine so much. The next one I get I'm going to properly build though. I messed up big time on the bus engine's rebuild and then I sold it. It also had way to much rust. Maybe in another year or so I'll get another bus.

That's not a VW if it has a Busa motor in it! I really don't like swapping motors over to different manufacturers bodies.

Holy clean Ghia batman! That things looks awesome. I take it that's yours since you posted it up. As for my car, I currently drive a MK3 Jetta TDI, Porcelain Blue. Supposed to be my daily non-much modded car but I was autocrossing it one day and the turbo said hey... I want to split the shaft. So naturally I upgraded the turbo to a Mercedes 320CDI 3.0l Diesel turbo. Here are some pics, more can be found at my Flickr Set http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_bat/sets/72157617211706556/ Used to have a VR6 Turbo Mk3 Jetta. Has a T04s on it. Video of it going 2nd through 5th - I'm an online whore. After melting a piston in that car I decided to have a reasonable daily and a project car. Everybody in the car scene has to learn this the hard way. Also losing traction all the time with FWD I've decided to go Audi Quattro drive train and I'm doing a Audi A4 VR6. As for VWs in the past, in order that I got them. 1987 VW Jetta GL w/ Power Windows and Crank Sunroof. 1986 Jetta Coupe 1999 MK3 Jetta GLX - Turned VRT then melted a piston 1997 Jetta GLX - Turned Parts Car 1971 Bus Westy 1998 Jetta TDI

I'm a VW Enthusiast and I was wondering if there were others here that were somewhat into VWs here. I would say equally but there aren't many at my level of obsessiveness with VWs. Anyways, post up and say hi.