tricky > wrote:
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>>>4- Can we feel a hard difference between a 1300 and a 1600?
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>Hi
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>I just got myself a 68 bay bus at the end of last year. The engine,
>1600 (AS), sp was bad (leaking oil - end play ).
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>I took it out and put a 1300 DP (AB) out or one of my beetles in it.
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>Up till then my daily driver was a split bus with a 1600 SP (B) engine.
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>I feel the 1300 DP in the bay has MUCH more bottom end grunt !
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>Dont know why - It surprised me too !!!
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>Probly isnt what you wanted to hear :-)
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>Rich

I think that the best I have to do is:

1- News 1300 dome pistons and cylinders (I have flat ones now)
2- Rebuild the carb
3- Check the valve guides

to have my 44HP back again

Joao
72 Super 1302