1980 B1 Passat Project

[mikinoz]

I check your thread every few weeks Pete and every time I dig your attention to detail more and more. True craftsmanship. Keep at it as it really motivates me for one to strive to improve my skill.

[Peter Jones]

A note on the linkage kit.

Once upon a time Lynx used to manufacture manifolds in Australia. All their manifolds were cast to accept their own linkage kits.

Lynx don't make manifolds any more but they do still make the linkage kits.

So if you ever get a second hand Lynx manifold all you have to do is give the nice people at LYNX a call and place an order. Same place does all the Ramflo bits and pieces.

[Peter Jones]

I check your thread every few weeks Pete and every time I dig your attention to detail more and more. True craftsmanship. Keep at it as it really motivates me for one to strive to improve my skill.

Cheers Mik!

[huss]

Thats an awesome set up you got there Pete, I was thinking of doing the same thing. Think I will after seeing yours.

[Peter Jones]

But how does it go? I hear you ask.

Jodie's driven it and says it's more responsive and keeps making power high up in the RPM range. Acceleration is better so there's probably a few more horses in it.

The head has been ported, I saw the inlet ports for the first time while installing the cab and it looks like a good job.

The valves themselves look a bit coked up, I'll have to reco the head sometime down the track.

It's pinging a little, I'll drive it tomorrow and back the timing off a bit.

[Peter Jones]

Here is how the carb looked when I bought it.





It was in really good nick, all I had to do was give it a good clean.

[Peter Jones]

I've had to repair the down pipe previously.

We managed to pick up a new downpipe at SEDF but the outlet size is wrong for the 2" system we had fitted.

WHile I had the inlet manifold off I removed the current down pie and test fitted the new pipe so I could weld on the adapting piece.

The plan is to get the new pipe ceramic coated.





Of course one of the exhaust manifold threads stripped out, so I had to drill it out and helicoil it.



Hopefully we'll drop the pipe off for coating tomorrow.

[Jarred]

I wondered about the pipe today when I saw it, but forgot to ask!

I can attest, it sounds so much better in real life! Looks mega neat too.

[Preen59]

That's the way I likes it, Pete.

[Peter Jones]

Dropped the down pipe off for ceramic coating today and got a few miles up on the Dellorto.

I wound the timing back 2° as it was pinging a little, it was about 3° advanced in any case.

When I was trial fitting the down pipe yesterday I noticed the front exhaust hanger bracket was broken. I should have fixed it then as today it developed quite a rattle.

The bracket is bolted to the gearbox on top of the rear mount bracket.

I'd been meaning to swap out the rear mount so it seemed best to fix both at once.

All pretty straight forward until I removed the lowest bolt and discovered that the bolt hole is actually drilled right through to the inside of the box.

Got a 8mm gush of oil to the forehead.

The rest was a pretty easy job to re weld the two halves of the exhaust bracket together and bolt it all back into place.

Carby works extremely well, really smooth power delivery, much better than the progressive that was on it.