Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop

[Franz]

#63702

What’s up with this car? I heard something about “how to hot-wire a vintage VW”.

[Glennmoss]

#63952

Just signed back in for the first time in a while. Haha yeah the bug has been playing split duty on daily driver for me. I will trade off leaving one at work. Will gave me a ride down the other morning and I realized I didn’t have the key 😬. Franz helped me hot wire it over the phone and off it went.

 

It’s been running poor. Same issue that I talked about last time I posted. Been trying to track it down, but it’s very intermittent. Every time I think it’s fixed it’ll come back on the next drive. Going to install a pentronix ignitor II and low ohm coil this weekend.

 

ALSO ordering new tires for it. Any recommended setups? It currently has 2″ narrowed beam 145R15 front and 205/70R15 rear cranked down a notch or two. I was thinking of running 185s up front, but would that require a narrower beam?

 

[Scott Sain]

#63954

165/45/15

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[DaKine]

#63955

145/65 conti’s 👍

Those pics are side by side with 135’s

 

[Glennmoss]

#63957

Thanks guys! Any recommendations on the rear? Are 215s too big for a 1600?

[Franz]

#63958

205/65 will match nicely.

[John Jones]

#63970

Nice car!!!!   I forget Willy painted that rig here too…. 😎 I think that was his first paint job maybe?

Get it running right?

[Franz]

#64090

Did you figure out the electrical problem? I bet it’s something dumb like a loose connector or a cracked/corroded wire.

I’ve had a few similar issues with bad spark plug wires lately. Only causing a momentary miss.

[Willy]

#64107

Glenns been back and forth between Kentucky and Illinois a lot lately, so we haven’t had time to swap his new distributor in yet. Hopefully he’s ordered tires though… he’s down to the threads on the current front ones! 😳

[ColeB]

#64139

Just makes the car more fun to drive when the threads are showing! Makes it a drift car

[Glennmoss]

#64369

Don’t have any pictures yet, but I installed the new coil and distributor this past weekend. The bug is running great now! I think it was probably the condenser, but I’d rather upgrade the whole thing while I’m at it. Seems to have really good power but bogs a bit if you gas it at low rpms. I also had pulled the carb apart and cleaned it so might need to go back and make more adjustments.

[Glennmoss]

#64584

I tried ordering 145/65s from TireRack and they said that they will not sell them to me due to it not meeting weight requirements!? Anyone ever have that issue before?

 

[cookiemonster131]

#64586

Dont enter your car just order by size

[cookiemonster131]

#64587

Or order on ebay, dunlop and conti available

[Glennmoss]

#66094

Couple updates and questions for you guys. The Pentronix low ohm coil (0.6ohm) died after a week 😒 Replaced it back to the bosch. After it left me on the side of the road, I haven’t been commuting with this as often. But now the Vanagon has been having its share of mechanical needs and I need this back in action. It needs a new battery and I was wondering which one you would recommend. Looking at the Optima batteries, which one would work with the stock ground strap?

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