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Exciting news this week as the CB performance Panchito heads have arrived, and some new cool bus sheet metal too!

The PANCHITO head is the newest addition to our high performance program! Perfect for those mild tuned engines! Super strong heads with all the features  you need to build that perfect engine!

The all new Panchito 044 is dyno proven, horsepower making, ports cast right in. These port designs are race proven winners with years of use in engines around the globe. Countless hours were spent on our Superflow 600 flow bench designing the intake and exhaust ports. Our goals were to achieve the highest port velocity and air flow through a 40mm x 35.5mm size valve. The 40mm intake port has an extremely small port volume of 62cc and flows an incredible 162 CFM and over 300 ft. per second port velocity, right off the shelf! The 35.5mm exhaust port has a reduced bowl size and increased short turn radius creating phenomenal port velocity. This higher port velocity allows for improved low-end and mid-range performance without sacrificing top end power.

CB Performance has also added extra material around the combustion chamber to give the Panchito 044 more strength and support for larger bore cylinders. The all new high quench combustion chamber has a volume of 54cc, a perfect size for small displacement engines. The Panchito 044 is designed to incorporate bore sizes from 85.5mm to 94mm.

Available in all different bore sizes, they come with valves, springs and are ready to install.

Now available from our shelves!

1724-3 “Panchito 044” heads 85,5mm
1726-3 “Panchito 044” heads 92mm
1727-3 “Panchito 044” heads 94mm

As for sheet metal we have one new addition this week, the center side panel for all years bay window buses…

0891-315 Center side panel left 80cm – Bus 08/67-07/79

We’ve found an alternative for our BBT 0891-170. We used to buy this panel from Volkswagen do Brasil, but as Volkswagen Germany took our export license from VW do Brasil away, we currently can’t get that part.

So we found this panel on the aftermarket. It differs slightly from the original, but it gets the job done

The difference between the substitute and the original is especially that the upper part is not on it anymore.

We tested this part ourselves and we guarantee a perfect fit!

0891-170 Rail side door – Bus 08/67-07/79

Arm rest left or right side 1968-72 VW Bug & Ghia – tan smooth vinyl
TMI16-1614-13        Sold each € 32.00/ excl.

Dash cover woodlook KG 69 only    € 117.00 excl.
W434-141-857-071A WD

Dash kick pads (2pcs) KG 68-71     € 165.00 excl.
W434-141-857-061B

BBT FPU team wishes you a wonderful weekend…

The road from Phoenix to Reno was hard and long, I was pulled over by a brave bored trooper in one of the sleepy towns down the road for speeding… You know why I stopped you? he asked … Because you did 67 where it was 50…. btw are You a VW guy? (he saw my license plate “WBUYVWS” ) I said; yes, I am, I do buy old Volkswagens here and ship them over to Europe... turned out he was a VW guy himself! he start talking about his off-road bugs and engines etc etc, and let me go! My plate did wonders!

Down the last stretch to Reno I saw this nice billboard!

Long straights…

Once in Reno I visited some friends that are VW guys, one was selling a mango bus he just got out of California, very nice bus with very little work, and yes it was for sale, if you should be interested? I can broker the deal, no problem!

Oh, and what was peeping out of the garage????

That looks nice, right?

Having lunch with my buddies!

cool place, with a cool painting…:)

Next stop was a guy that just had too much… at arrival I was greeted by this Notchback… interesting to anyone?

This guys backyard was better as Disneyland! (to me at least!) Full with American and German iron… most was for sale, as he needs space and cash to build a larger shop… if you see anything? Just let me know!

6 door Thing anyone?

and we move to the next… a small back yard from another friend with some cool sheet metal…:) Real cut up buses, and not just one!

and a cool split window bus trailer, he has forever!

This was a super nice bay window that crashed hard in the front….

…. I mean real hard… the 80-year-old driver did survive, but nobody understand how! This was the cabin of that bus…

Last legs in Reno… passing by one of the “beetle spiders” in the Reno area… This one is super cool and has lighted “eyes”!

Bye bye Reno, we leave now…

I’m on my way back to the bay area to pick up some very interesting stuff “down south” as they say…… the rest of my trip will be in the state of California… so stayed tuned! If you keep on readin, I keep on writen!

Yesterday morning I visited two companies in Phoenix, one highly specialised in competition off-road cars, the other one building replica Porsche speedsters…

First the competition guys… this shop is led by a former Nascar Champion and a multiple award engine builder who made engines for the Penske team, and many others…

The shop was very impressive with loads of “big” machinery!

They fabricate a lot of parts and build all nicely together!!

They even have a four-wheel drive dyno, the only one in the Phoenix area as they told me…

They have two  dyno’s for motorcycles and ATV’s, the ATV competition market is huge for them!

The outside parking lot looked almost like a starting grid!

From there I drove to a company that bought a speedster replica factory in California, and moved it to Arizona… real nice speedsters! exported all over the world… this one goes to Croatia…

They build 1,5 to 2 cars a week..; a whole task…

Bodies are made in Mexico and painted in Phoenix…

In the building next door the owner housed his private collection of incredible nice American iron!

Around lunch time I left for Reno a full 12hr trip… with an extra 1,5 hrs delay in las Vegas because there was a crash in a road work….:(

Arizona is full of cactus as I told You yesterday… they’re about everywhere…:)

Hitting Nevada, at the Hoover dam, no time to stop sorry….:(

Soon after the traffic que in Vegas the sun went down and all went dark… I drove through the night, sad I can’t show You pictures from my favourite Highway 95 with very cool old places like Goldfield en Tonopah… maybe next time…:) so stay tuned!