Last week I visited plenty of suppliers and customers and yes some cool projects are “in the works”. But I save you the boring stuff…

I paid also visit to our supplier So Cal Imports, who make the Engle camshaft and TriMill exhaust…

So Cal Imports is ran by Andy and his wife Candaces. Two of the best people you can meet in your life!

The factory tour was real nice and I learned a lot…

Engle Cams was founded by Joe Engle in the forties as he wanted better cams for his Flat Head engines to race the salt lakes…

It turned into a bussines and an expansion to Volkswagen was just around the corner in the sixties with so many beetles around and too many young blood testerones that want to make their babies faster…

So Joe bought more and more machines and specilised into cams with an experience never seen elsewhere.

When Joe passed away Andy took over the machines and the entire Engle team moved to his premises in Carson, California, where they still grind and treat the Engle cams  till today!

This is the treasurie of Engle cams.

All dies to put on the copygrinders,

Every ring you see is a different cam lay out…

…. and there is three cabinets like this…

Copygrinders are very intersting machines…

People who know me definitely understand I spend quite some time there …:)

42year of experinece grinding cams… irreplacable…

Many machines not frequently used been packed in plastic to stay clean and free from dust and moisture… good work starts on a good machine!

What brings us to TriMill,

Started by John Miller many moons ago who had three sons, (hence TRI MILL….)

Some excenter presses to make the side covers for the silencers…

This guy welded more silencers in his life as probably anybody on planet earth, unfortunately he will retire in February…

With this result…

To properly stack away for the next step….:)

So many processes have to go through…

These are the tube benders.

I want to say a BIG BIG Thank you to Andy and his team to show me around and explain me all details, SO-Cal is a beautiful company. They make a genuine product as proven above!

From your local guy here to you, all the best!

Big day for all childeren in Belgium and the Netherlands,

Saint Nicolas, the holey man comes to town dec 6 just like every year.

He comes to watch if all childeren are nice!

If you are, you might get a toy and some candy, just like these guys, long long time ago…..

Tonight it will happen, I’m sure of that!

While Bob is enjoying the Californian sun the BBT Newsteam withstanded the most bad, overcast ugly grey weather Belgium has on offer.

So let’s shine the light on some products and break our dark days a little bit with all new cool parts we add to our ever enlarging program this week…

Right Hand Drive customers beware, we do not forget you and we add this week the master cylinder crossmember for RHD buses built from 1955 till 1967

More SWT RHD parts will come out, because we feel the need in the market for these parts…
For LHD buses we have this crossmember HERE

0890-617 Master cylinder crossmember – Bus 03/55-07/67 (RHD) SWT

We had these 12 volt 4 pin blinker relay longer time in our shop under shop number:W562-211-953-215C, but now we made it a general BBT part  for all of us to enjoy…:)

The 6 volt 4 pin blinker relay can be found HERE

0685-100 Turn signal relais 12 Volt (4 pin) – Beetle/KG/Type3/Bus 08/68-07/70, Type181

We found a perfect supplier for this little pin that makes your seat will stay in the same place.
Beside late German beetles and Mexican beetles it fits also Golf 1 & 2 and a bunch of other watercooled cars.

Check out our cool quantity discounts!

0736-120 Pin and spring for seat adjustment – Beetle 08/76-07/78

 This knob for wiper or headlight switch is a little smaller than our BBT # 0636-960

This is the correct model voor your Bay window bus en Type 181, Thing or Trekker…

0636-970 Knob wiper-/ lightswitch – Bus 08/67-07/79

0529-100 Chassis sound dampening set (4) – Beetle

0436-510 Cargo door large lock mechanism with locking knob – Bus 03/55-07/67 – repro

1770-01 Valve cover seals top quality

2187-550 Throttle linkage with ball bearing for Type 1 engine with Porsche cooling – Vintage Speed

0890-050 Wheel arch front right – Bus -10/62 SWT

0723-8 Seal for engine lid key cover – Bus 03/55-07/65

0625-1 Taillight – Beetle 08/72- Smoke (economy)

The BBT News team wish You a good weekend, stay safe, stay healthy and stay dry!