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Volume 53 • Number 2 • July 2007

All the action from Heathcote • Type 3 • Tech Torque VW Electrics • and more...

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The Oficial Magazine of the Volkswagen Club of Victoria Inc.

The Heathcote

rubber road

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Calendar of Events

JULY

July 17th Club Meeting - RACV Club.

501 Bourke Street, Melbourne.

Entertainment: Bring and Brag Night, bring

along your favourite VW related item and tell

us all about it. DOTVW 2007 Presentation.

July 22nd Christmas in July.

St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews.

See Ad on page 9 for details.

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VWCV Committee

President Michael Cronin 0419 684 181

Vice-President Dean Holden 0412 500 588

Secretary Andrew Ermel 03 9369 1360

AndrewE@brimbank.vic.gov.au

Treasurer John Farlow 0418 357 416 farlowj@internex.net.au

Additional Committee Members John Stevens & Paul Kinsey

Public Oficer John Stevens john.stevens@justice.vic.gov.au

Restorations & Tech Sessions Vince Zito 0418 137 855

Motorsports Co-ordinator Chris Antonello 0407 309 244

Social Secretary Kingsley Morrison 03 9484 8953

Membership Secretary Xavier Larkin 03 9836 7607

vwcvmembership @ yahoo.com.au

Points Score Oficer Andrew Ermel 03 9369 1360

Technical Oficer 1 Bill Malkoutzis 03 9439 5904

Technical Oficer 2 Garry Collis

Club Merchandise Dean Holden 0412 500 588

VW Cruises Anthony Surie 0414 344 331

Editor Tony Albers 0408 330 894 wagensville @ hotmail.com

Advertising Manager Dean Holden 0412 500 588

Features

AUGUST

August 21st Club Meeting - Studley Park

Boat House, Kew. See Ad on page 11 for details.

August 26th Queenscliff Train Trip.

Cruise to Queenscliff and take the historic

steam train to Drysdale and return to

Queenscliff for lunch. See Ad on page 6 for details.

2 The Heathcote Rubber Road.

All the action, speed and noise from the

VWCV Drag Racing Event at Heathcote.

6 Tech Torque

When the lights go out or it just won’t start?

Bill Malkoutzis talks about the electrics in your

VW and how to avoid being left in the dark.

SEPTEMBER

September 18th Club Meeting - RACV Club.

501 Bourke Street, Melbourne .

OCTOBER

October 16th Club Meeting - South Yarra

Volkswagen. See September issue for details.

October 20th Oktoberfest.

Join the VWCV for Oktoberfest celebrations

at the Hofbrauhaus (specialising in German

and Bavarian cuisine).

18 Market Lane Melbourne, from 7pm.

See August issue for details.

VWCV General Meetings

Melbourne Club meetings held every third Tuesday of the

month at 8pm at the RACV Club (Henty Room), 501 Bourke

Street, Melbourne, unless advised of an alternative venue

in the Club Magazine.

WVCV Annual Membership Fees

• Full Membership $40

• Additional Family Membership $20

• Joining Fee $10

To join the Club, please complete the membership form inside

this Magazine and forward together with cheque for payment

to the Club’s postal address as quoted on the form.

Wagensville Deluxe is a quarterly Magazine of the Volkswagen

Club of Victoria Inc. Correspondence, articles and items of

news are invited and should be sent to:

VWCV Editor

GPO Box 1215 Melbourne VIC 3001

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DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE

Monday 30th July 2007

www.vwclub.com.au

MOTORSPORT EVENTS

July 8th Autocross Geelong Motorsport

Club/Western District Car Club.

July 21st Autocross MADDC.

August 5th Motorkhana Werribee.

August 18th - 19th Hillclimb Broadford.

August 26th Hillclimb Haunted Hills.

September 16th Winton 6 hour.

September 23rd Second round Interclub

Hillclimb Rob Roy.

Contact Chris Antonello for details. 0407 309 244

PLEASE NOTE: Due to problems with the yahoo mail

server, the VWCV Editor now has NEW email address.

Please send all future correspondence, articles

and items of news to:

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2 Presidents Report and all the action from Heathcote.

4 Type 3 History.

6 Tech Torque, When the lights go out or it just won’t start?.

8 Echuca Social Report.

9 Member Proile, Life Member Dave Evans.

10 Motorsport, Rob Roy Hillclimb.

11 VWCV Classiieds.

12 VWCV Membership.

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Contents

DISCLAIMER All material in this magazine represents the opinions of the author(s) and does not carry any endorsement by the Editors of Committee unless otherwise stated. Any material

advertised for sale does not carry any endorsement by the Club and the onus is on the purchaser to ensure the purchased goods meet their requirements. Each VWCV Committee Member is

a volunteer, carrying out Club duties in their own leisure time. The Club has no paid oficials, only enthusiasts dedicated in furthering the interests of the club and it’s members. Could members

please bear this in mind when contacting Club Committee Members.

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President’s Report

Michael Cronin, VWCV President

The Heathcote

rubber road

Heathcote Drag Racing 9th June 2007

Welcome to another lash issue of the club

magazine, this month its only a short report as I

have been away. The main club event I was able

to attend was the Drag day at Heathcote (Racing

not clothing preferences). The hardest part of the

day was not missing the turn off to the track apart

from that a great day was had by all. Chris is to

be congratulated for the organisation although I

see Cheryl keeping a close eye on him. I think this

was an appropriate event to start the revitalisation

of the clubs motor sport (hint Chris when is the

next one). An interesting day, normally you would

expect to see beetles etc on a drag strip but the

Kombi’s especially the campers added a touch of

class. Evan even dressed for the part or maybe

that was his normal weekend cloths. Some drivers

had more luck than others with a few mechanical

failures, some quick repairs and a spectacular roll

over of the only true drag car at the event. Michael

Clark’s daughter showed she could be following

in his footsteps by nearly winning her class on her

irst event. Once again well done Chris, a great

day and thanks to all those who came along and

supported the day.

Unfortunately I could not make it to Echuca as

I was in the US on business, no I was not able

to get loads of VW parts or in fact any. Except

for a clapped out Karmenn the only other VWs

I saw were in LA and then not many. There was

hardly any VW stuff to buy and even Disney

Land didn’t have any Herbie merchandise, a big

disappointment.

Well as I said only a short one this month, don’t

forget that the Annual General meeting is coming

up soon so if you think you would like to join the

team or just want to help the nominations, the

nomination forms will be out soon. See you at the

General meeting.

The day started early. Thirty cars and about eighty

people attended the event. The morning consisted

of everyone taking many practise runs to get

them and their cars tuned in for the afternoon

competition of dial in competition and grudge

match racing.

Drama persisted all morning with various cars

having teething problems from gearbox problems

and oil leaks. Quick trips to Heathcote to pick up

supplies saw some earlier runners get back on the

track for afternoon racing.

The dial in competition saw various VW models run

against each other. Kombis versus Beetles, Type

3 station wagon versus heavily modiied beetles

to Herbie against standard aircooled beetles. The

water cooled class was also represented with

Golfs, Seat, Audi and a 968 Porsche.

Between events Mike Kristen from Bus & Bug

(NSW) and the boys from Vollkommen Art ran their

specially setup drag cars. Mike ran a irst quick

10 seconds pass in his twin supercharged nitro

methane fuel burning beetle. Nick, George and

John ran their specially prepared turbo charged

beetle. In all the excitement of seeing their beetle

launching off the line with its front wheels aloft, we

missed getting a time for the run. It was very fast!

But more was to come as Mike took his car out

for another run. What started off looking like a very

fast run turned into a spectacular accident as the

car veered into the wall at about 100mph, and did

a rollover onto the roof, skidding through the 8th

mile timing marker at 46mph. There is no stopping

a VW even on its roof. It came to rest on three

wheels on the other side of the track.

Mike walked away uninjured. We cannot say the

same for his car. We would like thank Mike and

his crew for coming down for the day. The car

will be ixed and planning to attend our next drag

meeting.

We also appreciated the crew from Heathcote

Raceway who ran their jet car on a demo run for

the club. It was very loud and fast’ all it needed

was a Hostess and set of wings!

The dial in results saw some interesting match

up with most of the heavily modiied cars being

defeated by the standard VWs. The inal of dial in

air cooled was between a standard 1967 Kombi

and a standard 1963 beetle. The beetle won on

the day by the slimiest of margins – 100th second.

The trophies on the day were:

Fastest VW Powered Car – Mike Kristan

Closest Dial In et – Air Cooled – Justin Atkins

Closest Dial In et – Water Cooled – Bill Malkoutzis

Big thanks to all competitors, their pit crews,

spectators and everyone that helped with the

catering. Special thankyou to Joanne and Russell

and all the staff at Heathcote Raceway.

There will be deinitely another drag race event

later in the year. Watch the club magazine and

website for details.

Chris Antonello.

After a long absence of Motorsport in the VW

club, the irst event for the year was the inaugural

VW only Drag Race Meeting in Victoria held at

Heathcote Park Raceway.

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Type 3

The Volkswagen Type 3, properly referred to as the Volkswagen 1500 and later the Volkswagen 1600,

was a range of small cars produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen.

The range was originally launched in 1961 in two

varieties, the Notchback with a notchback saloon

body, and the Karmann Ghia 1500 (popularly

known as the Type 34 Karmann Ghia) with a

coupé body. The Variant (popularly known as the

Squareback) with an estate body followed in 1962.

The Fastback, a fastback coupé version, arrived

in 1966. A convertible was announced with the

original models, but did not enter production.

The Type 3 was introduced to diversify

Volkswagen’s product range beyond the Type 1

(Beetle), the Karmann Ghia, and the Type 2 (Bus).

The Type 3 was designed to allow Volkswagen to

make a more sophisticated car while maintaining

much of the engineering from the Type 1. although

available to much of the world, the Type 3 line

was not exported to the United States through

Volkswagen of America until the 1966 model year,

when the Squareback and Fastback were added

to their line-up.

ENGINE AND DRIVETRAIN

The Type 3 was initially equipped with a 1.5 L

(1493 cc) engine based on the air-cooled lat-4

found in the Type 1. While the long block remained

the same as the Type 1, the engine cooling was

drastically changed to allow for a much lower

engine proile. This resulted in increased area

for cargo stowage with the so-called “Pancake”

or “Suitcase” engine. This engine’s displacement

would later increase to 1.6 L (1585 cc).

Originally a single or dual-carburetted 1.5 L engine,

(1500 N, 45 hp or 1500S, 54 hp) the Type 3

engine got a larger displacement (1.6l 1585 cc) for

1966 and modiied for 1968 to include electronic

fuel injection as an option, making it one of

the irst mass production consumer cars with

such a feature (the irst was the Type 4 VW 411).

Also introduced for 1968 was a fully automatic

transmission.

One notable advance from the Type 1 to the Type

3 was the front suspension, although similar to

the Type 1, it was the irst Volkswagen system to

incorporate transverse torsion bars, as opposed

to the Type 1 torsion leaves. The Type 3 torsion

bars are cross-mounted to which each individual

torsion bar is connected to both front wheels.

The Type 3 was also the worlds irst volume

produced car to feature electronic fuel injection

pioneered by Bosch. This was offered as the VW

1600E version (E meaning “Einspritz” in German or

injection).

RELATED MODELS

34 Karmann Ghia. Also known as the Grosse Ghia

(with grosse being German for “large”), the Type

34 Karmann Ghia was a larger, more squared

development of the Karmann Ghia, and was

based on the Type 3 platform.

Brazilian Type 3 (TL/Variant/Variant II).

The notchback Type 3 was launched in Brazil in

1968 and met with little success, being nicknamed

Zé do Caixão (after a popular Brazilian movie

character) for its boxy shape. This model was

exported to Mexico, where it was sold as the

Brasilia.

A fastback/hatchback version, the Volkswagen TL,

fared somewhat better, being produced from 1970

to 1976, originally as a 2-door and later as a 4-

door version. Neither enjoyed as much success as

its estate-bodied sibling, the Variant. The 3-door

Variant was produced from 1969 to 1977 and then

followed by an updated successor with squarer

body, the Variant II which was produced from 1977

through to 1980.

GENERAL FEATURES

Strengths

Spacious body and luggage capacity; good

braking; heating air thermostats; engine and

gearbox parts common to Beetle; separate body

and loorpan.

Weaknesses

Cylinder heads cracking, overheating, gearbox

problems, twin-carb plugs inaccessible, rust traps

are front wings, inner wings, rear lower seat-belt

mounts, jacking-points, sills, spare wheel housing,

later fresh-air boxes and bumper mounts.

Speciications

Wheelbase 94.5” Track f/r 51.6”/53.2” Overall

length 170.9” Height 57.9” Width 63.2” (64.6” with

side parking lamps).

Weight Sedan 2227 lbs/1010 kg(unladen) 3109

lbs/1410 kg (laden).

Variant (Squareback) 2281 lbs/1035 kg(unladen)

3274 lbs/1485 kg (laden).

Trailer 1025 lbs (unbraked) 1433 lbs (braked)

Luggage Front compartment 6.5 cubic feet (1969)

7.8 cubic feet (1970).

Rear compartment Notchback 7 cubic feet

Fastback 12 cubic feet.

Variant (Squareback) 24.7 cubic feet 42.4 cubic

feet (back seat folded).

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Tech Torque

I read an interesting news item in the recent

edition of RACV Royal Auto, where it was reported

that people were driving around with the minimum

number of lights on their car to try and minimise

the green house gas their cars were generating?

Wow!!!! I thought that is really digging deep to

save the planet. Truth of the matter is, if they

walked or rode their bicycle somewhere instead of

using their car they could save all that greenhouse

gas they are trying to save by not using their

lights many times over. Anyhow, since I have your

attention I thought it might be time to shed some

light on the basic workings of your VW’s electrical

system. This article will focus on the 6 and 12-volt

generator versions and I intend following up with

an alternator version later.

All cars that have been on the roads since the

invention of the starter motor have had a battery

of some sort. The function of that battery is to

store a certain amount of energy (electricity) to

allow the car to be started after it has been turned

off. I.e. not have to hand crank to start. Now a

battery can only do this so many times before

the battery is run lat. So what is the magic that

keeps the battery charged, in a Volkswagen?

From the irst VW till about around 1974 all VW

used a “generator” to keep the battery fully

charged and to operate all the electrical devices

around the vehicle. A generator is basically a

direct current motor (like the one that runs your

windscreen wipers), that is run in reverse so

instead of absorbing energy and making the

motor run, it actually creates electricity, but slows

the engine driving it. Now a generator will put out

as much voltage and amperage that the engine

driving it can put in. That is the more energy used

to turn the generator the more electricity it puts

out, however if it is not regulated in any way, it will

generate voltages from zero to well over 48 volts

and sap energy from the engine driving it (i.e. less

horsepower to actually drive the car than to make

electricity). Most electrical devices are designed

to operate at a set voltage, i.e. 6V (not so much

these days, 12V, 24V (trucks). Therefore there is a

ine balancing act going on here. Hence a vehicle

generator has to be regulated to a voltage and

amperage that satisies the vehicles needs while

not sapping too much power from the engine.

The regulator on early Air Cooled VW’s is that

little box on top of a Beetle generator, above the

highest point of the fan belt. On other models i.e.

later beetles, Type 3 and later Kombis this may

be re located under the rear seat or next to the

battery in some cases. In this little box is a series

of switches / relays and resistors. These work

together to regulate the voltage coming out of the

regulator to the designed level. On a 6-volt version

it might be 7.4 to 8.1 Volts, or 14 volts on a 12V

vehicle. These vary from model and year so refer

to your repair manual for details. Also they limit

output, for example 180 Watts on 6V units (30

amps i.e. 6 Volts divided into 180 Watts equals

30 amps), 200 Watts on Kombi 1500 6 Volt (33.3

amps) or 360 Watts or 30 amps on 12V vehicles.

This “wattage” limits just how many devices you

can run on your vehicles. In my early VW days I

always seemed to have a lat battery after night

rallies, particularly if it was raining. What caused

this were the big driving lights I was using. For

Example I had the following devices operating on

the car at he time.

Hi beam headlights 2 x 55 watts 110 watts

The tail lamps 4 x 5 watts 20 watts

Dash lights & gauges 6 x 2 watts 12 watts

Ignition system 10 watts

Wipers operating 60 watts

The new stereo I bought running through

a 12 Volt invertor 50 watts

Map reading light 10 watts

Driving lights 2 x 55 watts 110 watts

GRAND TOTAL 382 watts

I had a 180 watt 6V generator, so when I was

running with the wipers on I was draining the

battery to the order of 202 Watts or 33.6 amps so

the poor little generator could not keep up, hence

why my battery was draining so quickly. I quickly

learnt to turn of my hi beams when the driving

lights were on to minimise the problem. In the end

I moved to 12 volts, and was much more careful

what I ran at any one time, or at least gave the

battery a chance to recharge before turning off

the engine. The moral to the story is, limit just how

much load you place on your poor old generator.

The wear and tear items in generators and their

associated regulators usually result in the charging

warning light to either come on or glow at various

levels of intensity.

The things that can go wrong are:

The fan belt being loose or lost which means

your generator is not receiving the level of energy

required to generate the expected power.

The carbon brushes that rub on the commutator,

(its where the brushes contacts on the bit that

is spinning inside the generator). The carbon

brushes wear as they rub which allows the

electricity to low out of the generator. These

brushes as with electric motors wear in time and

will require replacement.

The regulator has mechanical contacts in them

(like points) that open and close control the level

of electric current lowing. Again over time these

contacts “burn” and eventually fail, resulting in no

current from the generator.

The day you see your dash light for your generator

start glowing ever so lightly, or for long periods

after starting until you rev the engine or if it comes

on as bright as can be, you should be planning a

visit to your VW service person as your charging

system is not working correctly. The chances are

you may be left high and dry next time you go

to start the car or you’ll will come to a unnerving

halt some where out of the way once your battery

is lat. If you do see your charging warning light

comes on there are precautions you can take to

get you home.

The irst is to check that your fan belt is in place

and tight. If it’s not OK and you can’t do anything

about it then the idea is to minimise the amount

of electrical energy you are using. Turn off the

stereo; don’t run on hi beam if you can avoid

it. Any electrical device that you can do with out

should be turned off. If you need to stop the car

before heading home, park on a downhill decline

and so allow you to roll start the car (avoid using

the starter motor – very taxing). A pre 1974 beetle

When the lights go out or it just won’t start?

by Bill Malkoutzis

being driven in day light hours with a fully charged

battery in good condition, and not stopping the

motor, could go all day before lattening its battery.

At night you may be lucky to get 1 to 2 hours of

drive time if the headlights etc are on. So if the

light starts glowing you should be looking for help

before the car stops on you.

Another thing generator based vehicle owners

should avoid is using invertors in their car to drive

240V appliances such as computers and game

toys. These invertors use a lot of current and so

places a very high load on the generator, which is

most likely over taxed during its operation and on

the contact points in the regulator switching loads

become so high that the points weld together

so stopping the generator putting any power

out resulting eventually in the dash light glowing

followed by a lat battery and eventually your

stranded if you don’t do anything about it. This

scenario also applies to devices that draw a lot of

power. Any time you over tax the generator the

regulator contacts are the irst thing to go.

If you really need to use these devices in your

early VW you may want to consider switching to

12V alternator, as they produce much more power

and are regulated electronically with no contacts

to burn or weld. Next article I will talk about

alternator versions and the future of electrical

power in an automobile.

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