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Bob Hoover's Blog Flying, homebuilt airplanes, working with wood, riveted aluminum, welded steel tubing, fabric, dope and common sense. Gunsmithing, amateur radio, astronomy and auto mechanics at the practical level.
Aug 6, 2012 · Not a cut between the two channels around each lifter and thought "It says "Engle Racing Cams" on the box - Why no Bob Hoover mods or other feature to make the lifter more suitable to a higher than stock output and stresses?".
A short photo slide show of our friend RS (Bob) Hoover (the other Bob Hoover), Urban Legend and well respected VW Guru. Bob pioneered many VW engine modifica...
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Sep 3, 2023 · I read this whole thread, Hoover's blog, and saw your video on YouTube. I am neither for nor against Bob Hoveer's mods, I simply want to understand whether, mathematically, they make sense or not. And I'm not an engineer... Well, about your methods, I found it interesting to treat hydraulic resistances as if they were electrical resistances.
Bob Hoover was a pilot, technical writer, avid outdoorsman and family man. He has given the VW community valuable information on engine builds. Making cool running, having long service life and free horsepower all explained in his blog post.
May 29, 2007 · HVX MODS. The air-cooled Volkswagen engine doesn’t have a very good lubrication system. (Which isn’t surprising, seeing as the design dates back to Xavier Reimspiess’ original 1931 ‘boxer’ engine.) Its inadequacies became evident in the late 1950's when me and a few other fools started hot-rodding the things. The Ford Motor Company ...
sphere of VW trip reports, Bob Hoover is the undisputed master. I place the Grendel saga with the most important fiction I have read (except that it isnÕt fiction, and it was written in real-time under the greatest duress--but the pacing is so perfect and the drama is so haunting that it leaves me fatigued
