More engine nightmares but progress nevertheless.
The heater boxes (original to the car) were missing these weirdo clamps for the duration I have owned the car so I got hold of a pair of them NOS and sat them where they belong. Quite what they do is beyond me as the muffler is clamped by the conventional clamps onto the heater box. Anyhow.... they are installed and the muffler can go back on once the fan housing's are bolted on.
I thought I would share the images of the full flow set up on the 1602cc.
It's just regular brass fittings out of the Gene Berg relief valve pump cover (3/8 NPT) and the case with adapters to -8 speedflow alloy angled fittings and speedflow hose all in black which is orientated correctly to clear the fan housing without clearancing the magnesium and once they get below the lower tinware the hoses are clamped together and ran as a pair up to the o'Berg oil filter which will be mounted near the air mixer on the passenger side (left side for us RHD people).
Yes it looks weird but this ain't no bug so you have to do things a bit different to suit the VW-1500.
Next up is to get hold of a non-thermostat inner fan housing and that will get a lot of other parts bolted onto the engine. As you can see, this 1602cc is based around a brand new AS-41 magnesium VW crankcase because the original crankcase was heavily cracked and is now of little use except perhaps as a foot stool.
