vw air-cooled gaskets for dio bbk.

[veedubh20]

After my work, I head down to hawaii import parts and asked for a aircooled vw exhaust gasket that goes on a cylinder head, their are 4 gaskets on a motor. Just need 2 only.

Gasket fits fine.

[burnt_toast]

looking for this gasket. there was a thread with a link to oreilly's, but this old thread is only one i found.

anyone remember thread im talking about?

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this one here

[Meatball]

I had a 73' Squareback Type 3 back in the day. Not sure if this link is what youre looking for but here you go.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1964-1973-Type- ... 2548.l4275

[benji]

My dad had a square back w a pinto motor, and a 58 karmann ghia slammed on chrome porsche wheels when I was young.

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My dad had a square back w a pinto motor, and a 58 karmann ghia slammed on chrome porsche wheels when I was young.

pics??

and yup Meatball, that's the ones.

Ended up going to a VW buggy shop, and they hooked it up with 4 different types of those same gaskets for $2bucks! Gonna try to use em to mate up a Tecnigas pipe to stock bore on the ZX50

[Meatball]

I have better pics, need to resize them

[Meatball]

Sold it years ago. I know where it is. Thinking of buying it back someday.

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now that there's a sweet ride. like a mini wagon, i like it.

so what is the engine configuration on those, compared to beetle? & fwd right?

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Nope! Telltale louvers over the rear wheel-wells show the conventional rear-axle location of the air-cooled Boxer 4. 1500 or 1600 ccs. At the time, a whopping 48HP seemed enough.

[benji]

Wheelmans right- they were called "type 3's" and had a flatter topped version of a bug motor. Also came in "notch-back" and "fast-back" body styles. Very similar suspension as the bugs. I wish I had picks of my dad's v-dubs but those days are long gone...

[benji]

We had a 65 bug that was 1200cc and 36hp

[Meatball]

It was a 1600cc...This peticular car was featured in "Hot VWs" magazine back in its hey day. The shaved door handles really made it unique since it wasn't done much back then. I got looks everywhere I went and plenty of thumbs ups on the road. It made a simple trip to the gas station turn into an hour long conversation with the guy next to me. I want to buy it back from its current owner and restore it since they've neglected it over the years. This time Id drop a Type 4 motor in it since they had more cc's and are an easy swap.

[Meatball]

We had a 65 bug that was 1200cc and 36hp

I went to a car show last Summer where they had a mobile Dyno. You could buy two runs for $50. I watched car after car do runs at 400, 500 almost 700hp. Then I saw the guy pull up with a VW Beetle that was a "Herbie" replica and do a run....everyone cheered when he turned the drum at a whopping 48hp...