well, maybe i am crazy, but i cruise all my bugs at 70+mph daily... the mexibeetle is much more under powered than the old bugs... so i usually keep it down to about 70... well really i try to keep them all down to that... but they maintain 70 for about 50 miles a day... i've been known to do 90 when passing (80 in the mexi) never been gutsy enough to do 100... yet...

Hey VWGIRL,   Why is your Mexbug seem underpowered ?  Mex.1600cc engines should cruise about as fast as US spec. 1600.
    Are you sure you have a 1600cc engine ?
  Why don't you post some close-up photos of your engine. Close up of the intake where it connects to the heads,carb.
    This might have a clue as to your oil leak.
  A 1300cc engine will look a lot like a 1600cc single port. ( 50hp v 57 hp)

i will get some posted up for you tomorrow... it is a U case... so perhaps that says so... but it definitley a 1600i engine.

I thought that the 1600dps were 57hp and the 1600sps were 60hp?

Hey Girl,   FYI  U.S.A.
      Type-2    '63 -'67   1500cc   53hp( 1500cc was a opt) single port
         "          '68-'70    1600cc   57hp single port
         "          '71 only   1600cc   60hp (duel port)
         "           72-80(?) 1700cc -- 2000cc

      Type-1    "61-65     1200cc----40hp single port
         "           66 (only) 1300cc----50hp     "
         "           67-69     1500cc ----53hp     "
         "           70 (0nly) 1600cc----57hp( only 1600cc single port)
         "           '71-74     1600cc----60hp (duel port w/dog house cooler)
         "           '75-80     1600cc----46hp      "         Fuel injected engines
    had horsepower rated NET not SAE. This is the reason the hp figure is lower. These engine also had smaller valves ( same as 40 hp) but they seem to perform as well as the larger valve engine when in good shape.

I'm not an expert on driving fast, but one thing you need to look into when you start getting up toward 100 is aerodynamics.  Stand back and look at the profile of your bug.  Kind'a airplane-wing shaped isn't it?  I've heard that swing-axle cars like to lift up in the rear at high speed.  This would cause the wheels to tuck.  If you needed to make a turn, you might be in trouble.  You may need a "whale tail" or some type of wing to keep your car level at these high speeds.

Personally, I'd want a good roll cage, a racing seat and harness installed before I attempted to break 90.  But that's just me . . . I'd worry about myself more than the car.  I mean, I'll push an engine till it spit parts through the case . . . but I can always piece together another engine IF I make it through the ordeal in one piece.   :wink:

By all means, if you are a thrill-seeker, crank up the speed...There's a fine line between exciting and messing your pants, though.  I'd suggest a set of disc brakes to go with the 70+ mph performance package.  The guy pulling out in fromnt of you didn't think a Bug would go that fast.

Come on Scott, Standing still and burning the tires off ?   Sounds like the
 Ricer is coming out of you. While you were smoking up the area,that old 36hp bug just blew your doors off.
  I like "Stop light Gran Prix" myselve. That is when I had something that I could do it with and didn't know that the local Cossacks frowned on such antics.
 You being a recovering Ricer,  Whats with this Drifting thing ? Its like a auto-cross,but you have to run through the whole thing side-ways , engine turning 8 zillion rpms while you set the tires on fire. Then on top of that,your fellow drivers jump up and down ,clap their hands,hoot 'n'holler when your " $10,000 50 valve 9 1/2 cam Saki-Sucker Engine dissesembles itselve out there amons't the orange cones. I watched this happen on some show called Tuner TV a couple of weeks ago.
     Sort of like NASCAR : What happened out there Hung Pu ?  
              Ah-so ! The Greasey Lube, Tidy Bowl, Sushi Daewoo was running real good and we were biding our time back here in 35th before coming to the front. I think someone put a Buffalo Chip in the computer instead of the normal Cow chip and it  took a dump on us. We will get 'um next week soon as I can get the old lady back home from her trip to 'Vegas with her "Cousin"

Dang Scott. You might have hit on something there about the Japs.
    When their "Wally World" super center is almost as big as the whole country, I can see how this "Drifting" thing got started. I can see it now, Sliding around a pylon, smoking through Women Thingys dept, burning up the toy section, crushing all the little tiny vws toys.
     One thing I'll say, Nuking them sure did whip them in line.
     Hey ! Would this work on North Korea ? That piece of land would make a great parking lot for the South Korean "Wally World". :lol: