We Coddle our engines too much?!

If you got dependable, but want performance. See what this guy did to his 1600:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=271444&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Its not our fault. We've been programmed to baby our kids, not allowing them to reach their potential. Corse we're gentle with our marginally powered mills.
This guy pushes the limits, and TRIPLED his HP for a grand!

Something's gonna break...but I like his motor menu.

I'm all for it--everything should have a turbo! Maybe not 18 lbs of boost but positive pressure is good. We think you have to buy things in order to make power but I think you can do better with a little knowledge/investigation or trial and error. Look at this link--all of these are turbo----Junkyard engineering--I love it.

http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/fusca-turbo


Fusca=bug in Portuguese
turbo=we all know

Search 356 porsche, speedster etc....and you'll see some of your cars being "built" also.

Dont open Bruces link. I have major problems at my office after opening it. It spaming my PC with viruses and adding forced spyware to my computer. Got so bad I had to call my IT people. I can't open several programs.

My home system (an iMac running the Safari browser, thank goodness) warned my that the site appeared to have malware - software intending to screw up your computer - and stopped me from going further unless I specifically wanted to. I backed out ASAP. Whew!

Where is Theron.... to remove the link before someone screws their pc to Never Lever Land.

Yep, I am totally screwed at the office. Theron, you out there. Delete this post ASAP!

Marty

I'm sorry(I don't know what for really)--all it is is a link to brazilian ebay nothing else. Same as visiting ebay home page , scrolling to bottom and clicking on brazil. What could be wrong?

I opened it and had absolutely no problems on my PC.

Either you have an excellent firewall, someone deleted the malware, or it's lurking in your computer wait for the right time to strike. Hope that it's one of the first two.

I looked at it briefly with no problems. Comcast and Firefox usually catch bugs quickly but not a peep. Still beware!

~WB

I opened it and had no problems. I have AVG installed and it reports that the site is safe. However, there is a very nasty "worm" out there at the moment and PC uses should be doing "automatic updates" or at least frequent manual updates.
By the way, Bill Gates is retiring and I've posted his Microsoft sendoff video under "Anything Goes."
Troy

I have Macafee Professional, and it still got through. That click is going to cost me two grand by the time I get a new PC and have the databases restored.

Marty,

I got some worms a little while ago its name was "GenericArtimis" and I think it caused firefox to crash. I downloaded firefox and did about 50 scans with Mcafee and finally things are back to normal the last scan did not have to quarantine anything.

Don't give up and buy new equipt yet. Have you tried to system restore?

Good luck

Dave

I opened it up, no sweat . . . but I'm still wondering why ?! ?! ?! ?!

Just a bunch of tiny pics of mostly stock cars or off-the-shelf turbo kits.

I donno why it was even posted, considering the wealth of genuine legitimate Back-Yard turbo information out there.

And that whole foreign language bullshit . . . put it in the same box as "we're going METRIC" and toss it in the trash.

I didn't get a warning on the first page. It was when I tried to search for 356 stuff that I got the malware warning.

I did try system restore. Can't get it to work. I'll keep trying. Lane is correct it happened when searching in the site.

I'll never own a pc--macs forever!!! I don't understand (and I am virus ignorant) how you would get trouble from ebay?

This reminds me of the homemadeturbo, HMT forum, guys getting 200whp from a 1.5 SOHC honda motor.......just with bolt ons.........Nice build.

Hmm nothing here can get in and surf all over. Although since I don't understand portegese... Mac OSX10.4 using Firefox. It's just an Brazilian Ebay I think that the malware is more than likely coming from somewhere else (like maybe this forum) coincidentally at the same time, which is what happens with these things...

Good news. After several failed attempts I was finally able to do a system restore. So far, it looks to have worked. Be cautious out there. Keep your protection software up to date. Or as Vince would say "protect this!"

Marty

Marty - THAT's a relief!

I recently went through the process of retrieving data off a PC that crashed. I'm sure a few others on this site have gone through the same aggravation (TC). Finally made the switch to an Apple/Mac Book. Great system.

Hope you're able to stay warm during the cold spell you're having!

Peace - Out!

Jim,

We are pretty much numb at this time (mid winter) I'm wearing a t-shirt and a sweater. Jacket in car just in case. The teens actually feel ok compared with a week ago when it was -20. Sick isn't it? Almost forgot, I booked a long weekend for Sandy and I on Feb 6th. Heading to Hollywood beach FL. I promise to lookie and no touchy. I already have a hottie at my side anyway.

Marty G.

Marty:

My wife is running a Windows PC (I run a Mac) and we had a very bad incident with McAfee a year or so back - they sent out an update that trashed LOTS of their clients - no internet or email access whatsoever. About a week later they sent out an email to clients telling us to go to a specific website to get a fix to their screw-up. By that time I had already spent $600 to get my system recovered, removed all of the McAfee stuff and never looked back. Since then I've educated myself on what's going on and do my own maintenance, but do it without McAfee or Norton.

I would HIGHLY recommend getting rid of McAfee and installing the antiviral and spyware suites from either Trend Micro or AVG. Either one does a great job (Trend recently helped me defeat the WIN32.ZAFI.B worm that's been making the rounds lately, and AVG is highly recommended by Chris' sysadmin friends) and then set them up to scan daily for a while.

Norton and McAfee both keep malware lookup tables forever and their updates keep adding to the lookup tables so, after a while, they spend a LOT of time looking things up and slow down system performance a lot. Their lookup methods leave a lot to be desired.

gn

That was tense. Expected this post pulled long time back.

Now can we talk TURBO???!!!

For laughs, see the Samba guys header. (link in my first post) As far from tuned lengths as you could get. That caught my attention.
Apparently new imperatives are created when you stick a turbine where it'll do some good.

What I gleaned from his thread:
If you got a near-stock compression/cam engine thats still tight, it could be a good candidate for turbo.
Turbo for $1000 beats a new/revamped engine for $3000/up

Full speed ahead!!