Lower Tins

Put them all back on.  It helps to fabricate a pair of “sled tins”, too.  I don’t have a drawing of the sled tins, but someone on here must have one.

Here are the photos I found from when I made a pair of "Industrial" sled tins for whan the engine doesn't have/need heater boxes.  Unfortunately, I do not have the paper template that I used and got from someone else on here.

This is a finished tin for the passenger side:

Here is a shot of the passenger side with a J-pipe and the bellows in place.  You can just see the sled tin about 1/4" above the bottom exhaust pipe/J-Tube, shielding the thermostat bellows.

Passenger side with the sled tin mounted.

A close look at the Driver's side with the sled tin mounted.

Here's looking from the driver's side rear looking forward.

Passenger side looking from the rear.

Engine with tins installed, no carbs or intakes mounted.

Thanks Gordon, useful information and great pictures. Cheers.

Richard

Gordon, that is some nice fabrication of tins.

Richard, I made sled tins for my Spyder. It has a 911 fiberglass shroud, so absolutely no factory tins of any kind.

I have an 1 5/8" exhaust with no heater boxes, and elected to run the J-tubes right through my fabricated sled tins. I used .030" aluminum sheet, and attached to the factory spots on the case. On the valve cover side I used an old set of bails to hold the tin. Works absolutely fine, but I don't have a thermostat to worry about.

I can post pictures if you like.

Danny, thank you, I now have a good idea of possible solutions.

When you remove heater boxes you still have to contain the spent cooling air so it exits out the back and isn't re-ingested by the engine.

To make your own-

And another way of doing it-

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/fo...ewtopic.php?t=326793

Very cool, no pun intended, thank you.

Gene Berg has them already made for $7.95 each:

http://www.geneberg.com/produc...amp;products_id=1262

Thank you, how cool is that

You're very welcome; I just posted the link to one of the sides but obviously they have both.

Well sh%t! Here I figured I thought of everything. I'm just au naturel down there. All exposed like a jack rabbit on a date. Looks like another winter project.

Winter project?  

Heck, you could install them in the time it takes to watch  Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune!