Each to their own. Personally I'd rather get out in mine every weekend than spend time building an engine for it. Not that I'd have a clue where to start.
It has... If you leave it closed, it'll act as an air brake and slow you down by a good couple of seconds over the 1/4
I would check out Jake Raby, his name is synonymous with performance Type 4. Seems he is more focused on Porsche, but still Type 4 power...
JR doesn't recommend what we do with our buses over here, and he certainly wouldn't agree with how I build them
Price for parts is in at £2500. She's going to kill me. That's for 2056 B+P's, web cam, cam wheel and bolts, lifters, crank grind and rod recondition, all bearings, flywheel faced, dynamically balanced with clutch and fan, heads, replace seats, guides, 1 piece s-steel valves, shim valve springs, port/polish chambers, surface deck faces, 3 angle valve seat machine, vac tested assembled and cc'd pair for 42 x 36 valve sizes
You mean you tell your wife how much you spend on your cars? I would have been dead a long time ago! At least mine has a handbag habit that I can use in my defence, but she never knows the whole truth.
Don't talk to me about *****ing handbags. And shoes. It's like living with Imelda *****ing Marcos here. I've got 3 of them. We have a *****ing shoe room for ***** sake!!! No, I don't tell her how much I spend on cars, although it's pretty obvious, the drive and garage are full of the *****ers and I've got engines crammed in every available space Although she did buy me the Doka. Of a fashion