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g60steve wrote:

lee001t25 wrote:want to tuck them under the arch more if i can.

That's not possible.

Indeed

Cos the offsets no bloody good for a t3!

You sure sarran? My Cu had a hydraulic clutch

Ct s have cable clutch

+1 for webasto, I had one in my westy. Great bit of kit!

Check the et on them! Some were 5 a few years ago and made of cheese. They also peeled their lacquer at the first sign of salt......

andypandy1930 wrote:I just step into my shower room and have a piping hot one, the joys of gipsy ownership

Amen karmann brother!!

looks a sweet job!!

Good ppint, i should clarify We're talking early systems here as the empi only fits Aircooled or pre 85 systems.

Personally I was talking air cooled where my dyno experience with these empi piles of poo lay!

Nope! Stock box flows well to 100 bhp or so.

Ditch the power robbing heat exchangers if you want more grunt

See turbo Thomas for replacement j tubes.

Its all a learning curve Kev!!

My first van was a very steep and expensive learning curve!!!

kevtherev wrote:both.
I believe one was on a van as it was on a dyno. by coinsidence.
not massive power loss..but it certainly did not help.
The worst thing about them is the alarming rate of rotting

mine kev!
throughout the rev rang it was causing a harmonic imbalance, binned it for a stock one and made 4bhp!!

we had the same issue on my mates van, it was a combination of two things in the end.

gsf stats are pants FACT!!

and his rad was partially blocked, it would get super hot but spew water out till we swapped the new stat for a brickwerks one.

My money is on the gearbox mount.

weaken the mixture a smidge on both carbs, mot it and wind em back to where they were

What engine? Aircooled or water cooled?

4 speed box? Was the van originally a five speed bus?