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Todays progress.

OK,I had some time to move ahead. Casting was fun. I first tried investment casting and failed spectacularly! Next I went with the sodium silicate method with way better results. I'm new to casting and still learning a lot.Oh how I would love to have a mill. Most of the machining was done with a rou...

Got the patterns printed and tested the core with a mixture of sodium silicate and fine silica sand. This might just work out assuming things keep going as well as they have so far.

Full scale test print fits great. Now to modify the shapes for casting.

The Goatwerks system is superior to Jetronic in every way I have no doubt. I'm trying this route for a few reasons- My Pinz spends half the year living outside and can get a bit wet. This situation isn't good for electronics and has already killed off my diesel heater. Also the time period of techno...

I was unaware of the air volume requirement. Thank you for the tip and the photo of how they did it. I got further on the manifold castings and still plan on testing the system, however, I won't spent the time making brackets/fuel lines quite yet just in case it doesn't work well in this configurati...

After too many carb issues I have decided to change over to injection. The older VW Jetronic system has caught my attention due to its simplicity and reliability, specifically in an application where water is often involved.I know there are plenty of reasons to go full EFI but this seems more approp...