Beck 550 Spyder Replica VLOG #7 - It...Is...ALIVE!
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Hi Everyone, look what is in the garage today! Our friend Mike brought over his Beck 550 Replica to get a little work done on it.
In episode#7, We finally hit the starter button!
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In episode#7, We finally hit the starter button!
Get that nifty pressure gauge here: • HFS (Tm) Carburetor Carb Valve Fuel Pump Pressure & Vacuum Tester Gauge Test Kit: goo.gl/wZZmZy
I’m trying to soak up all Franny’s knowledge. Awesome video
My Late Dad was a mechanic and no one has ever reminded me more of his skill and patience and methods than you . Believe me he was something else and you are too 🙏
I really like watching you work through a problem and appreciate the way that you explain each step. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome work Franny! So cool to see this pretty car come back to life.
Another great one. Glad to see you finally tracked down the issue. Loved the ghost editing by the way ;)
Thanks Jeff!
I liked that too Jeff! Franny needs to show me how to do that. Heidi
Thank you for another fantastic Vlog. I’ve enjoyed every episode. I admire you for having such patients in trouble shooting every issue, particularly on those Carburetors.
Franny you are my HERO! Thank you for such wonderful videos.
:)
Having a wideband tool is the best way to fine tune dual carburetors.
Regarding valve trains/heads servicing in AC VW engines.......The factory recommended interval between valve/head jobs is “every 40k miles”. I owned a Super Beatle decades ago and it came complete with the original VW factory maintenance schedule book included in the owners manual. The schedule was for 300k miles......with a valve job occurring every 40k miles. Air-cooled engines have very high cylinder head temperatures and this heat wears the valve train very quickly compared to water-cooled engines
Great stuff. I really enjoy it all!
Brilliant and have loved this little series, just about my favourite from everything you’ve done, I could watch this all day. Really looking forward to seeing it out on the road 👍
You are amazing, thanks for the great videos. You are the engine whisperer!
Excellent video. It has been really instructive.
Methodical diagnosis and solution, nicely done.
Great work Franny. The car sounds so much better now.
Thank you for another fantastic Vlog. I love the way you methodically trouble shoot every aspect of what you’ve done. Totally enjoy watching it. Thank you for your inspiration to tackle those nagging carb issues. Waiting for the next episode.
Really enjoying this series of videos - looking forward to the next episode - you're so organised - makes me want to make more effort myself when in the workshop.
Amazing.
Franny, you are an aircooled genius.
Sounding good :)
Really nice to follow this issue ! The way you eliminate step by step , I have learned some things again . Great to see you at work.
Thank you for another informative and interesting Vlog. I hope at some point you can make a video on how you got into wrenching on cars and how you were able to learn so much on VW/Porsche engines as well as water cooled ones like the 308.
Sounds like a great idea!!
I’ve really enjoyed watching the process of you taking the 550 Spyder and diagnosing it’s issues, step by step. I don’t have an air-cooled car, but I’m familiar with them; I grew up reading about American muscle cars, then immersed myself in Japanese tuner cars. I worked for a time at a Mustang-specific retail shop and then moved to one that did parts and service for Porsche. There was a specific learning curve moving from water to air-cooled engines, as well as how Porsche’s are engineered. My job entailed me to understand how they functioned, which is wondering how you started doing this; obviously you are very serious. Ferrari V8s and Porsche boxer engines are very different in their design; most of the people/mechanics I know pick a marque and focus on just that. Not being a trained mechanic myself but someone who likes to wrench and appreciated design and learning, your videos are a treat. BTW, I found your channel while searching for videos about maintenance on the 308QV, during daydreaming on the practicality of owning one. From there, I watched the story of your 356, and then the 550 just hooked me.
Yea! The 308 is a dream to drive. We just got the car back from the "spa" and it is so nice to see it back. We will be making a video shortly with the car. I really love working on cars. Something about it is just therapy for me. Thanks for your story. Great to hear. I hope you can work a 308 at some point. I saw one come up on F-chat for $40K. Don't be afraid of the injected 2V cars as well. Just get a car that has had the sodium valves swapped out. F
Great job on entire video , like the Franny ghost working on the car! -- now let's drive that thing! … good series going
You deserve a bonus for getting that engine sorted out, what a cluster @$!# those dual carbs were! Great job Franny:)
Some of the earlier comments make sense to me regarding the jets and altitude. Couldn't figure out how someone could be driving a car with an engine that screwed up. Great work sorting it all out Franny. Excellent methodical and patient approach. Love your penchant for cleanliness too.
Great video Franny! Great progress. Can't wait to see it on the road!
Me too Patrick. Franny is giving me the first ride! Heidi
Yeah! Very good job. ;)
Love this series. It's running so much better now, great job!
Thanks!
Great Job Franny! I have come so close to buying a Beck Spyder - but instead bought an 85 911 Cabriolet similar to yours - white with black interior. Had no idea I would be so captivated in learning all about the work you are doing on that air cooled 4 cylinder .. I understand that Mr. Beck is living here in Georgia not too far from me and hope to meet him sometime soon. Keep up the good work and looking forward to your next installment!
Wow! How cool! I bet he would have a few of these around for you to look at! IMHO, the '86 Carrera is maybe a better choice. More usable. The valuations between ours and the Beck aren't that far off interestingly.
I have met Chuck Beck many times. He is am amazing man. You definitely need to meet him. He does have a. Facebook page.
nice video.
Years ago I remember an original 550 owned by a guy in Omaha NE. He would come to vintage races in Topeka. I also saw what I think was a replica over in North KC last Thursday. He was going fast and my Ranger 3.0 wasn't going to catch up.
I like when you pump the pedal like this
Digging the entire series, to the extent I've been able to do so, during my household move...but just wanted to chip in on the amazing ghost effect editing making Franny appear transparent while evening out the levels of the carbs. That was really cool.
Thanks Dave!
This series is great...I love watching you work through the issues using your brain until you zero in on a culprit and fix it. It's super educational.
But I have to admit kinda hoping the car backfired after you replaced the jets, just to see how loud it would actually be. :D
Have you ever heard from Beck on their less than stellar workmanship?
I wish I knew you when I knew you while I was in Colorado. Maybe when back there were can get a coffee or something.
Great progress. Nice job. Good thing the owner agreed to the valve job. If you didn’t start there the next problem could have been real expensive.
That is totally true! We would have gotten it running and it would have dropped a valve. Eeek!
Good for you, Franny. That thing was running like a garage sale lawnmower. Your logic was good: there's a zillion of these motors running just fine, so what's different with this one? The carbs.
LOL!
When we ride "Oklahoma" non-fuel injected motorcycles in "Colorado" we always have to re-jet due to the altitude.
👍 👍 👍!!!
All this fiddling makes me glad to have injection (and electronic ignition) in modern motors, but i sometimes really love the sound of the carbs.
Heidi watching for any weird oil leaks as opposed to normal VW oil leaks :) Or is that just my VW? Love all your videos !!!
OMG! This car had sooo many oil leaks. Most of the pushrod tubes, the case... It was nuts. We got most of them except for one of those nyloc case bolts...
Needs a timing light...good job
Ah, the joys of carburetors! I always used to keep a screwdriver in the glove box ... fun times.
Are the plug gaps correct for that ignition system? I've had some of the same symptoms (erratic idle, rough at higher RPMs) that were fixed with the right plugs and gaps.
Good job Franny! very methodical! I don't understand how this car could have ever run correctly from the Beck Factory? Maybe the engine was swapped at a later date? Or maybe some previous owner got a deal on some carbs? As the purchaser of a "sports car" I would have expected this car to have some level of performance on day one. It could barely get out of it's own way. Sweet ride now that you have it running correctly.
I should have watched the rest of the series before commenting, as I see you did a good job of explaining the cars past issues. I am most impressed that you kept it professional and simply went from the point of view of "it's currently not running well, let's see what we can do to make it better".
It's funny, I'm Canadian and was just down in your neck of the woods last week for the first time and it is so fun to watch you drive thru some of the areas I just drove thru. You need to do a story on that Stanley Steamer at the Stanley Hotel!
How did you get to learn so much about cars and car motors, would be nice to learn more about Heidi and Franny. ❤️
+Jakob Nordin hi Jakob. We do need to do more of that! I would say if you are interested in our story of Eva (our 356), there is a four part series. You can’t miss them, the thumbnail is the same on all four. We also took a trip to the Broadmoor (one of our oldest Christmas videos). If you want to get to know us, check out our eclipse video. It is not really car related. It was August 2017 (summer a year ago). Some more personal videos and less car content. Lol. Heidi
Love the car......I want one.....except I’m done with pushrod engines. That car with an Air-cooled OHC engine would be the shitz
Did this car ever run right? I'm mystified where or when everything went so wrong. It must have come from the manufacturer running properly. Did it get so modified that the previous owner just couldn't figure it out? This car was a monster to tame but you nailed it, Franny.
All super great questions... My guess is no - it didn't really run well at all. That is what has been so confusing...
The idle jets need to be 58 to 60 on those carbs especially because that engine is most likely a 1914cc or bigger due to the 94 mm Pistons that are on it, and also most likely a higher compression due to the cylinder head that was machined and deeper in depth. And what ever size you venturies are: example 34mm, multiply that by 4 which would be 136 and that would be the size for your main jet, 40mm would require 160 main jets etc.
Thanks. Yup, in the end e pushed up the idle jets and it now idles on the tick at 1000. I have no idea why the jets were so small. "The car ran great" always trips me up... Maybe I'll get the car back in the garage this summer. Thanks for your comments.
I stay away from adjustable push rods tubes.
I love Dellorto carbs. I usually run a Facet Rotary fuel pump without a regulator. I get the one that puts out no more than 4 psi.
Seems like your idle jets were too small. That's why the mixture screws are so far out. You should be no more than 2 turns out. Remember that big carbs will run in the idle circuit all the way up to 3000 rpms.
50 idle jets may be too small. 60's would help
Yeah, it has 60s now. The idle is better.
Franny 2 major questions for you.
1- how the hell did you get so good at this? Are you a trained mechanic? I’ve been working on cars for about 10-12 years and have nowhere near the confidence to tackle the jobs you do.
2- how are you not cussing a blue streak through these videos, or do you just edit it out? Most of the new projects I work on have a whole lot of failure before any success.
Thanks for your great videos.
B
Hi B, No, not formally trained, just motivated! Not a fan of having a busted car on the side of the road ;) And, yes! Things get hairy at times. I whacked my head on the Spyder door like three times in a row and Heidi had to apologize to the neighbors ;) You don't want to hear that, trust me. I try to show when I screw up (a lot), but not when a light goes flyin' or (my favorite) when I finish a scene to learn that the camera wasn't rolling. The fuel system for the Spyder (coming up next) was a disaster and you can tell by how jumpy it is... Thanks for watching :)
Awesome episode. It sounds so much better. I enjoy seeing your care and attention working on the engine. The engine is so well lit I can see everything you are doing. My question is since this is a Beetle engine that has been turned around 180 degrees, how is the car properly, has the transaxle been flipped over 180 or is the engine turning the other way?
The transmission has been reworked, the eng doesn't turn the opposite way.
Way better! That engine must have been previously assembled/tuned/maintained by an ignorant apprentice. Your proficient refresh/repair effort better be highly appreciated by the car's owner.
It is starting to sound like an actual car rather than a complete clattery mess. The earplugs really help actually. I was able to focus on the nuances of the sound without being yelled at ;)
Franny,idle jets first then mains.Idles are almost always 55 or so for VW engine especially in the size were talking about here. mains are close 4.1 x venturi size.This should get you very close.First clue idles were too small was when you said idle air mixture screws were out 7.5 turns.Way too much.Should be 2-3 out. With 009 distributor may need between 55-60 idles due to flat spot on advance curve.SVDA would be a better choice here but that is for another day. FYI idle jets are for the bulk of driving up to around 2500-3000 rpm and thats where mains start to come in so getting the idles correct has a big factor on driving satisfaction. Set idle somewhere around 900 but only once the engine is good and warm,really thats when all carb adjustments should be made. Remember from the time you start the engine until it hits its idle you set it will will increase around 200 or so rpm thats why you set it while warm. It;s normal to have to stay on gas pedal whilw warming up due to no choke but being al. manifolds and carbs right above heads they warm up quickly.you're almost there. Good job.
Thanks Scott, What you are saying is really playing out with this thing. It is always hard when someone brings something to you and says it just need a fine-tuning. I'm guessing this never ran well and there were so many ancillary issues the core issues never got addressed. I might need to push the idle jets up to 60. I want to see how it acts under load. The owner has a better distributor so I may end up putting that in too (not a fan of the 009 for a street car). Whit the way it has been running it was just about impossible to set the timing (or, really just check it). Still a bunch to do. The next episode is all about that wonky fuel delivery system. Oh my... F
Hey Franny, love this series, I was wondering with the dual huge carbs and free flowing exhaust, maybe there isn't enough camshaft to support those mods. When I was younger, my buddy had a stock 69 camaro with a 307 cu in V8, and we put headers and an exhaust system on it, and in doing so, right off idle the engine wouldn't accelerate do to a huge flat spot in the rev range, then we changed the carb and manifold from the stock 2 brl, to a edlebrock performer and a holley 650 carb. This helped but the engine still ran rough. The stock engine simply didn't have enough camshaft dwell and lift to handle all the extra air and fuel we added with the new parts. So my questions is, with a stock VW 1600 cc engine, can you add dual carbs, and headers will the engine run smoothly without changing the camshaft and maybe adding higher compression pistons to handle all the extra fuel and air? Again, love this series and your channel, huge fan.
I would bet that a stock 1600 is pretty much matched to a stock super beetle intake and exhaust. This particular engine does have a high(er) lift cam and high(er) compression heads. This setup is probably pretty well matched, but it is an older (1994) setup.
You can easily run dual Dell 36s on an otherwise stock engine with great success. These carbs are well suited for a VW engine in many iterations. In fact 1 barrel per cylinder on these air cooled engines are much more efficient even in mpg if you drive without a heavy foot. Because the tuning is a bit fiddly I think the factory decided to use sjngle Solex knowing full well they were leaving a lot on the table.
I was also thinking of a possible vacuum leak somewhere within the intake system. That could be the reason for the rough running and long time it takes to come back to idle after being rev'd up. I was confused on the fact that she had to richen the fuel mixture, I thought for high altitude the fuel needs to be leaned out to match the lower O2 levels in the air. Ehhhhhhhh what do I know, i'm no engine tuner, just going by logic.
What your thoughts on the fuel pump? It responded poorly when pressure testing the its output. Also I have not worked on a VW engine, but this fuel pressure seemed low, you didn't seem concerned about the pressure
Thanks William, Stay tuned for the next episode. I address the entire fuel system :)
I am wondering what your altitude is where you're located. Being in Colorado I assume you're up there in the clouds.
Did the car come from a lower altitude? May be why the jetting is/was off... The engine does sound much better!
Close to 6,000. It is the Mile High City after all. Yes, Miss Eva was affected by this as well. But... well, you will have to keep watching...
Franny, what are the idle jets. The mains don't work till 2500 or so.
I bumped the idles up to 0.55 from 0.50. I want to drive it, but maybe it could use 0.60...
Was the Muir reference in regards to torquing the Gentleman who wrote Volkswagens for complete idiots?
Yup. John Muir's book is always my go-to for all things Air-cooled VW.
Use to be my go to book
Oh my gosh, who welded them flanges on those exhaust headers they're awful looking . You should adjust those valves again sounds like you have clatter.
Stay tuned....