Anibal Chico www.steelbuggin.com built this 1776 long block with a new case, new heads, C25 cam for torque, with a deep sump and full flowed for oil filtering. We then added powder coated German doghouse tin, new Sachs clutch, powder coated intake manifold, and even tracked down a complete 38A (68-71 bus) generator – so we could run some extra music at some stage.
This is the first fit in the bus. Apparently correct for a 67 we made sure we used German heat exchangers that had the pre-heat on the passenger side, we then plumbed this through the rear tin and used a cap to block off the front tin.
This shows where we ended up putting the oil filter – under the drivers side of the tray, out of the way of stones and debris but still accessible.
Turned brake drums, new slave cylinders, shoes and that ultra expensive one year only correct 67 master cylinder. Dual circuit brakes.
This is the first run early in 07. At this time we were using a 30 pict 3 with an ACN SVDA but we eventually went correct 30 pict 1 and a correct era SVDA. With any luck only the really observant will say this is nothing other than a correct 1500 SP.
We wanted yet more reliability so we chose to replace the whiny 4th gear with a fully rebuilt Rancho stock ratio bus transaxle including RGB’s – just add oil and go they say.
www.ranchoperformancetransmission.com/transaxles/vw.html
New gearbox mounts, front and rear, restored gas tank with new sender, new heater cabels, clutch cabel and accelerator cable and we should be ready for the engine.
Here we are ready for the engine to go back in
This is how it looks today..