Posts by: Michael

Cal-Look.com’s annual holiday blitz means free gifts!

It’s that time of year again, and we’re doing a special one week holiday blitz in the store — any order of $29.95 or more gets a gift! Choose from either an EMPI hat in your choice of colors, or an official Cal-Look.com mousepad! Simply place an order for the items you’d like to purchase, [...]

New Thread on the Forum on Cal-Look.com

We’re starting a new thread on the Forum at Cal-Look.com that features historic photos of Cal-Look cars/events from back in the day. We have a large collection of historic photos (due to the generous contributions of our readers), and it’s about time that we started sharing more of these, building a great thread. We’d love [...]

Cleaning Electrical Connections to Improve Performance

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I was performing the annual service on my Beetle this weekend, which included changing the oil and filter, checking the timing, greasing the front beam, oiling the hinges and lubing the locks. One thing I did differently this year was to clean every electrical contact. The process involved systematically removing EVERY electrical connection and bulb, [...]

A Sign of (FOR?) the Times.

No shit, with year-over-year Porsche new car sales down approximately 45% as of Oct 1,2008.

Speaking of NOS Distributors…

Richard Roth sent me a photo of his “new” NOS DDS (Deano Dyno Saur) dual point distributor. Now THAT’S cool!

NOS VW and Porsche Distributors.

Fellow period distributor nerd (and ace distributor restorer), Glenn Ring, sent me the following photos and links. NOS VW Bosch 010 Distributor I love these distributors, preferring them strongly to the 009, both in the timing curve and quality. They were THE distributor to have on your Cal-Look engine back in the ‘70s. Glenn recently [...]

Site Update: Lots of new stuff to talk about!

The Store Due to popular demand (and a rediculous amount of time since the last restock), we have updated the Store with new products, most noteable is the new Cal-Look.com License Plate Frame!! This ain’t no plastic novelty frame, it’s a real meaty metal frame that is certain to last the life of the car! [...]

Check Out the new Cal-Look.com License Plate Frame!

Update on the 911

I got some work done on the 911 this past weekend while performing its’ annual service. In addition to changing the oil – all 9 litres of it! – I also replaced some gaskets on the top of the engine: – the breather box gasket – the oil pressure sender washer – the oil thermostat [...]

Period Arao Hemi Heads

These are some of the coolest period heads I’ve seen. I believe that I took these photos at the VW Classic back in 2000 or 2003. They were for sale in the swap meet (although I don’t remember the price). They were not a successful design in terms of sales, and I heard they tended [...]

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