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This should get you started.

Awesome!!! Thanks.

jan

Well that's it for now. Nice to hear from all the rest of you. I'll try to check back here now and then....

JH

That's a cool catchup John!

I have a softspot for old Mercedes too! I would love a W116 450 SEL 6.9 (though not a US spec one with THOSE bumpers etc). It's be an awesome talking point... especially when popping into the garage every morning for gas :-)

Interesting about your job - What company is it? WA by any chance??? I'm a tech in our local hospitals Biomedica./Clinical Engineering Department :-) We have 4 hospitals we look after that are covered by a WA Acuity system - in fact, I just got called out to it a 1AM!

I'm loving your workshop too! I built my second house, which started off in planning stages as a 2 story barn with parking and worshop underneath. I could have easily fitted 16 cars down there. Then I got married...... It has a large double now, but I did have 4 cars in there for a while. I've built a small barn, which holds my Transporter and mowers etc, but I want a large 3 bay - But I refuse to borrow money to do it, and on 1 income with 2 kids now, it's a little way off.

Hessisch would be AWESOME! There are about 13 Kiwi's going last count, which I think is pretty awesome! The photos they show are incredible. The palce itself loks amazing, but seeing all those vintage VW's in one place must get you going. It's just the right place for them too - like a movie set!

Good to hear what you're up to. Hang around!

Allan :-)

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The engine will be a 90.5x82 2110 with MegaSquirt FI, throttle bodies from an 1999 Honda Interceptor VFR800 and hydraulic lifters. I'll be applying everything I learned from my Megasquirt type-3 project to this engine.

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Man, that looks awesome! The type 3 is very cool too - I always wanted an early one.

I was going to put a 250 HP subaru 3.0 into my Transporter, but that's been canned, as the deal fell thorough selling the 2.5 conversion I already have.

So now... I'm wondering about putting Megasquirt onto my stock 1600TP in my

EFI is SO much better than carbs - the control is awesome and it's quite impressive how much fuel it saves!

Allan.

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Well, I'm getting around 30-31 from the MS/squareback. The 1600DP in the ba= ja gets 33-34 (in the summer) with an ordinary 34pic3. So carbs can do just= fine.

But Megasquirt is infinitely more adjustable once you get used to programmi= ng it. With my DCNFs, I was always waiting for another set of jets (at $8 a= jet) so I could try something different. With MS I can try 5 different thi= ngs in one afternoon just using a laptop.

Max

Whaddya mean, she won't start? Have you spoken kindly to her?

Chris '65 ghia (lowered kiddie-car 2100 dual Weber 44 and a total PITA) '60 (Sept '59) fully original except for spade-terminal brake- light switch Kept in the Miami rain. Started just fine after cleaning points and 50ml of gasoline in the carb. Not bad for 6 years sitting in the rain... maybe I should change the oil ;)

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Jeez - I hadn't thought about that detail... Hopefully getting remarried soon, and it hadn't ocurred to me that some of my closest inanimate companions might be banned.

Go figure... we let keep kids in the house and can't keep an extra car in the garage ;)

Chris

Ahhh... if the stuff is already there, you may be able to pull it off... I was still planning, so the plans had to change to suit the Mrs :-)

Allan.

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John, good to see you back.... I think of the "old timers" of Ramva often... the new fangled web based forums are just not the same.... Hope your health holds out, and you check back in!

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WOW! What do I get for being too busy at work and not scrolling down to the newsgroups? Missed all the fun! It is great to see all y'all back! Old age makes us soft, that is for sure. Well, actually business meetings at multiple work sites and living in a climate with triple digit summer temperatures (in degrees F). Two needy dogs (Bichon Frise & Yorkypoo) go spastic when I leave them in the house while I try to work in the garage. I still have my '64 and my '63/65 Frankenbug and at least get out to go to the local monthly VW club meeting. I have been on the verge of selling the Frankenbug daily driver for the past 2 years. I want to focus all of my bug funds/garage space on the '64.

I hope everyone keeps up the threads. It was/is fun to see everyone's adventures.

KWW '63/65 Beetle - The > Whaddya mean, she won't start? Have you spoken kindly to her?

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I'll second all that.

I do hang out on the samba and shop talk forums and I do take notice when the ramva alumni post. I've reached out to a few to alert them to the recent "reunion" that seems to be happening here.

But yeah, the web forums are different from this group. There isn't much talk on the web-forums about things going on in people's lives. Something about this group allows for that. Not sure why.

Max

ramva alumni post. I've reached out to a few to alert them to the recent "reunion" that seems to be happening here.

on the web-forums about things going on in people's lives. Something about this group allows for that. Not sure why.

We became a family. We cared about what's goin on in each others' lives. Who was getting married, who had kids, who was building a garage, who had hemorrhoids... :)

Jan

Remember you? Hell, I often wonder about your disastrous Raby engine, and wish I had enough cash on hand to make a serious offer on it......though it does belong in the GTII.

Micah's 58 can't take that much...get er back going and enjoy.

Good luck with your health, I have had a few issues of my own along the way.

I'm currently in Missouri.

Gary AKA Gareth.

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Jan - lemme know when they make the 'unpost' button ;)

You're right. I came back here after what, 15 years, and people _remember_ me, and welcome me back. This _is_ a family.

And you stand out as one of the few that got married - at least in part - through RAMVA.

May we all be family until someone posts "whatever happened to..."

Bob Hoover -RIP.

I'm happy to be back, and both surprised and pleased at how many actually remember me.

BTW - to any lurkers (if there still is such a thing:) Post. Be not afraid. You'll be joining a great family.

Chris

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Gary - I hadn't made the Gareth connection. Glad to see you, too, are still here.

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KWW - good to know your double-digit temps are in F (LOL). Jeez - double-digit in C or K would leave your dogs even more stressed ;)

Don't know when you came to RAMVA; don't recognize your nic, but i assure you, the pleasure's mine. Long live RAMVA, and everyone who bothers to scroll down ;)

Chris

Chris, Search back in the RAMVA archives and you should find my posts in the late '90s and early 2000s. Things slowed down as the '0x's progressed (for various reasons) but it is good to see that things are finally picking up and are cordial.

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