new guy here!

[racergti]

Man, I'm glad to hook up with this site! My first H2O VW was had about 1987- a 76 american rabbit with a heron engine with side-draft mikunis, cam, recurve dist, exhaust and bilstein/suspension techniques suspension. I drove the hell out of it and countinuously tortured the local motorheads with my import terror.

Too many tickets led to my second rabbit-a 78 with the 1.5l (cast crank). It installed boge/suspension techniques, 4-to-1 header and g-grind cam, but I installed a newer 84 close ratio 5-speed tranny. This combo ran dead even with my brothers 84 gti and was lots of fun too!

I moved on to A2's and currently a vr6 gti, but I have a special place in my heart for A1's. Currently I'm part of a race team in SCCA with a G Production rabbit (#54 chuck mathis at '03 runoffs) and an 84 gti in Improved Touring Class B. We have a mold for carbon fiber hoods and a re currently making molds for boxed fenders for the Prod car.

Through some clever trading, I ended up with the heron engine, but the block and pistons were ruined;however, the head survives! I'm waiting patiently for another old rabbit to come along, so the heron engine will have a new home! The midwest portion of America is brutal on older cars and finding one with repairable rust is impossible! I found a diesel '80 model, but the round headlight rabbit is what I'm after.

I hope to learn lots from you all and hope to offer some as well!

dave...........
www.stlvw.org

[angusmf]

What size valves did the heron heads have?

[racergti]

I'm not sure on the diameter, but the stem is longer sine the head is flat and no combustion chamber. The shape of the port is very nice, but I dont remember the dia.

sorry. I'll check it out when I'm back at the race shop.

dave......

[angusmf]

Cool. I've been curious, but haven't seen a heron head loose before. BTW, welcome to the site/board.

[nn]

I just got a digital camera. I'll post up some photos of it in the coming weeks.

dave.....

[Think]

hey,
I'm new to, I have a 79 german bunny, how do I post pics?
cheers,
yarrow t

[angusmf]

Good question. When you start a message or reply to someone, look at the buttons above the text box. On the second row, 4th from the left, next to the email icon, is the picture button.

Press that button, and some new text will pop into your message. Just replace the part that says URL with the location of your picture. This is the URL to one of my pics:
www.carhole.com/Rabbit/120903/RR-12-09-03-18-stitched%20strut%20tower.JPG

And when I insert it into the image tag, I get this:


If you don't know how to find the URL to your pics, browse to them on your website (they have to be hosted online somewhere) then right click on the picture and select "properties". You should be able to copy and paste the URL of the picture then. Note that for browsers other than Internet Explorer, that might not work.