Best of Garbiarnia
Texts and forum topics worth reading – all in Polish, with English descriptions. Your browser's translate feature helps.
Articles
- Dating a Beetle (Datowanie Garbusa) – how to tell a Beetle's model year from its details – one of the most-read texts on the site
- Gearboxes: maintenance and codes (Skrzynie biegów - obsługa i oznaczenia) – what the gearbox codes mean and how to look after them
- Measuring compression ratio (Pomiar stopnia sprężania) – a step-by-step method for engine builders
- Cal-look or German look? (Cal-look czy german look) – the two classic Beetle styles explained
- VW Type 1 models (Modele VW Typ 1) – an overview of Beetle model variants
- Before Beetle production began (Zanim rozpoczęto produkcję Garbusa...) – the Beetle's early history
- Ivan Hirst and the first post-war years of the factory (Ivan Hirst i pierwsze lata fabryki Volkwagena po wojnie, cz. 1) – how the Wolfsburg factory restarted after the war
Forum: technical classics
- Lowering a Beetle (Obnizamy Garba) – front and rear lowering – the forum's eternal question
- Lowering the rear – a manual (Jak obnizyc tyl, odwieczne pytanie ;] --> Manual)
- Air ride in a Beetle (AirRide w garbie)
- Everything about LPG in a Beetle (Wszystko o Gazie w Garbie) – running an air-cooled engine on LPG
- Engine oil (Olej do silnika i pytania z nim związane)
- Wasserboxer (Wasserboxer) – the water-cooled boxer engine
- Type 4 2.0 engine build (Silnik typ4 2.0 - prace trwają :))
- Dyno results (**Zestawienie mocy silników na podstawie wyników z hamowni**) – power figures of members' engines measured on a dyno
- Quarter-mile times in Poland (*** Top czasów na 1/4 mili w Polsce - klasyfikacja ***) – drag racing results
- Parts not worth buying (Części których nie warto (badz warto) kupować) – members' experiences with replacement parts
Garage reports: the biggest builds
- Whyshchuck's Beetle (1835 cc engine project) (Garbus Whyshchuck'a (dawn.: Nowy silnik-projekt 1835"))
- Mrówa's restoration (Remoncik w toku... Garbus Mrówy i nie tylko .)
- My 1963 project (Mój Projekt 1963)
- Green 1303 total rebuild (Zielony 1303 totalna odbudowa)
- Oval 1954 (OVAL 1954)
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