i need to vent

[super vw]

Man... that DOES TOTALY SUCK!, but ya gotta keep your head up!
Id say screw what your dad says and listen to your mother... get out there and find out what went down. I GARANTEE you will learn more figuring out what happend to your motor than going to school (well at least you would here in the USA).

Stick it out man!

[zen]

sorry to hear it. it does happen to everyone though. and yes, you could have bought a crate motor for that cash...and have learned nothing. at least you have that learning experience and can use it right away on the rebuild. good luck with it.

[Timmy_Barns]

Thanks guys. i am not sure as of yet what caused the problem, but I am on the hunt. As for now I am just going to have to keep the faith. One day this car will run.

[volkdent]

2 words, H20 conversion. Been there, done that, and while learning a lot about ACVW motors I also learned that your money is better spent on a H20 motor. For a little over 2gs you could throw a rotary, suby, or wasserboxer that you don't have to tinker with every other day. If it fails, grab another one from the junk yard and away you go. My suggestion would be suby, they just keep going and going. That's why they are so popular with home-built aircraft guys, nobody wants and unreliable engine with a birds eye view. Just my $.02.

Jason

[Mikey]

that sucks, I remember with the '72 standard I have now, I drove to Washington state, 8000 miles a few weeks after it got rebuilt. It drove perfect there and back, then a week or two after I got back it was a cold morning, I went out to start it up and it spun a bearing. pulled it apart, rebuilt it. Me and my friend thought it was just debre in the oil. because of the marks on the bearing that spun. so we put a oil pump with a filter on it, then less than a week later it spun the same bearing. so we pulled it apart Again and aline bored it, it's been working perfect ever since.

Sometimes it just takes a few times to get it right. The thing is, don't give up. :righton:

[Timmy_Barns]

OK Volkdent, and along with the 2000 you spend on the engine, how much is the conversion? How much time do you have to take to figure the widths and all of that? Where did you run the radiator? I dont like the idea of something other than what the VW techies designed to put it in there, desigh wise. Im sure it works awasome, I just am not assured enough that i could do something like that, cuase I would prolly end up putting in backwards or something.

[boygenius]

Sorry dude, First off try to stay calm. If you go to work on your engine all pi$$ed off you might overlook something or break something else. I once forgot to loctite the clutch bolts on my "NEW" clutch and they backed off at around 10,000 rpm and 140 mph. It wasn't pretty... But I can laugh about it now.