Today I drove the car for about 100 meters. I did it at idle, with no linkage on the carburetors, no acceleration control. I was curious if the gearbox is working, and it does! I only shifted trough 1st, second and reverse and everything seems ok. The clutch engages good, the starter motor works perfectly. Then I placed the car on jack stands, and shifted through all the 5 gears. As far as I can tell for now it works! :D
Now I can concentrate on the engine more. I have this compression loss and oil leak between the cylinder and head at the piston no. 3, and probably have to flycut the heads to fix it...

A few new pics (sorry for the poor quality):
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The bug is back on the road again! :D :D And I can say that it's a different kind of animal! I just love it! I made about 200 kilometers with it (in and out of town) and I pushed it so hard that I managed to run out of gas :))
There are alot of small things that I still have to do, adjustments etc but the hardest part is behind me right now :D
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Oh, anybody know a good online source for AN fittings and hose preferably in Europe? I can't seem to find any in my country...

It just looks so right! Very nice! but pls get those case ventilation pipes on the air filters connected to a breather box as your pulling in unfiltered air right now.

yeah, I have the large CSP breather box, and I also drilled and installed fittings in the valve covers, but I rushed to make the car fuctional for that week-end meeting, so I didn't have time to do everything right. I actually worked continuously one full day and a night, till 9 in the morning to get it done :P
Now I will concentrate on the details, I also want to make it Coil-on plug, like slowtwitch did on shoptalk. And a few other things.
I could really use some good oil fittings and hose for the oil cooler... probably AN, because the hose I have atm just doesn't want to stay put on the fittings with just clamps. Maybe if I get it crimped it will stay :P

Almost forgot: there is: http://www.isa-racing.com/katalog/
and over here www.racershardware.nl retails these parts. Very high quality, no chinese copies!

Cool car, nice color too.:thumbup:

thanks! Let me show you what I've been upto since the last update:
I revised all the wiring in the engine bay. Took out alot of not needed wiring. Mounted the voltage regulator where it's supposed to be. I made a small relay and fuse panel to have everything more organised.
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I converted it to coil-on-plug using the method I have read about on Slowtwitch's topic on shoptalkforums.
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I made a small vacuum collector for the MAP sensor:
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I installed the crankcase ventilation system.
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And after about a month, I started the engine again. Now it runs on COP wasted-spark. A small video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQdv55OuA8

nice work! Might take a gander @ slowtwitch's topic sounds interesting!

yeah it's quite simple and for me, just like everything I do to my bug, it was a challenge making it work. And it started the first try, I actually managed not to screw up anything.
Here is the topic with the description and schematic of the system:
http://shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=131344

Hehe, I have another update already :D
I've started to understand relays a bit better, so I decided to take on a bigger challenge, and it worked! My beetle now has intermittant wipers with a programmable delay, and a wash/wipe function. I've been meaning to do this ever since I bought the beetle, and now thanks to Joel on aussieveedubbers, I found out exactly how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa0N-FMkFjI

I also installed a buzzer relay that goes on when you leave the headlights on, and open the door.

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Love the wiper delay! Looking at something like that for mine. More info please :D

ditto that - ive some some room for some more relays :p

Joel did an awesome job on his "how to" topic on aussieveedubbers.com, and eaventho he drives a 1303 super beetle, he put out information for doing it on any other type of beetle as far as I can tell.
Here's the link to that topic, with all the info you will need. And my example is proof of that.
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/v....php?tid=86544

With all this talk and being in the middle of doing my wiring I went down to the scrapyard and got myself a '99' out of a 1995 Golf CL today!

Thanks for the link Xellex ;)