Since it has been hot as hell the past couple weeks, I haven't bothered going out to the garage after work to finish up the scoops. Unt...

One of my planned mods for the FV is to replace the cooling fan and shroud with some duct work and scoops. At higher rpm, the fan belt tend...

After the extended FV engine build I finally got around to cleaning up the garage a bit. I still need to organize a bunch of stuff hanging ...

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The 1750cc engine runs. In fact, it started up instantly, doesn't smoke like it did on part 1, and has no visible oil leaks. This time...

Oh lordy, we just got our tickets for the sold out Chico Brewfest. A "couple" breweries will be there, according the event site: ...

My Mexican mother gifted me a beer today, in honor of Victoria Day, a holiday in my home land of Canadia. I think she selected it based on ...

Just a quick picture of the corner weights on RalphVee. I had gone through a full alignment a couple weeks ago, but never checked the corne...

Dear Rod Bearing, FUCK YOU!!! Ah...that feels good to stay. In a minute, you'll understand why. After a man date with Justin, I came hom...

One of the items I've been wanting to fix on the FV, was the slow steering. My car used a stock steering box (per the rules) but with n...

Well, sorry for the delay on the day two race report. It was a hectic week last week, and frankly, I was eager to spend some time in the ga...

I had an adventure filled race today, day 1 of 2 out at Thunderhill. With the old 1200cc engine slotted back in, everything was pretty much...

Well, long story short, the new 1700cc VW engine I built was in Ralphvee and running just fine for a couple weeks. I had about 5 or 6 hours...

After much fiddling with the carburetor, and realizing we had the #3 and 4 spark plugs wires crossed, the new engine in RalphVee came to lif...

Why good afternoon! It's Christmas day, and Susan and I are wrapping up our day of gifts, grub, and for me, lots of booze! I'll le...

That's right, the built dual port engine has been sitting in the FV chassis for the better part of a week. I only had to take it out tw...

I piddled around the garage this weekend working on the 1700 FV motor, doing all those small odd jobs that turn into small projects on their...

In the last post, I talked about the dinged up bearings I received. After a few days of phone calls and e-mails, SoCal Imports set me a new...

I did in fact get the second package of VW engine parts last week, on Thursday. Unfortunately, a couple of the main bearing and cam bearing...