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OK. we'll see how it all goes. I got a good line on a set of freshly rebuilt Solexes. Setup like yours, intake runners, linkage, air cleaners.... For a really good price, and a possible line on some local stores of goodies from a long-time Formula Vee racer a few miles from my house. Things are looking good. some way I'm gonna get all set up here.
 
Have ya run a compression test yet? And leakdown? Have you pulled the housing and the oil cooler, and cleaned all those years of bugs and dirt out of the fins of said oil cooler?
 
NO sir... I just wanna hear it run first. then I'll be going through it a bit more finely. Even if it needs a rebuild, I'm fine. hopefully I can run it a bit first. Didn't think about the oil cooler/ cooling fins. Good idea.
 
Yeah, with that layout it was tough to keep cool when new.

Take a really hot aircooled engine that leaks fuel, add a dizzy with three sets of sparking points, keep it in an enclosed environment, stir and get IIIBQ.
 
TOC said:
That's why VeeWees always lost that one cylinder.
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You would think as well as they thought things out, they would not put an oil cooler in the airflow to #3.
 
TOC said:
That's why VeeWees always lost that one cylinder.
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Yes...up to 1970 (which is the year of Ben's car).

Starting with the '71 cars, they switched to the doghouse oil coolers and the problem with higher #3 cylinder temps went away.

By the way, many pre-71 VWs have a special distributor that retards the timing on #3 cylinder by a few degrees to help reduce engine temps (the points cam is slightly "off" on #3). Kind of a weird "solution".
 
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