They make a special "S" shaped wrench.... i have a couple of snap-on and one mac one, old wrenches, that work great.  You can pick them up other places, though....

Snap on still sells a 13/11mm one, but not the actual VW specialty wrench like i have, p/n was a S5911, had 13/14mm box ends.... handy little wrench.

Something doesn't smell right.  The 3rd # in the vin # tells me it is a '71 floor pan. The 3rd # should read 110******* if it is a '70 .  Are you looking at the data tag inside the trunk ?   Look at the vin # under the rear seat on the tunnel right in front of the shift coupler cover. You have a strange car. Love to see it. VW did some weird thing on some of their export cars going to places other than the U.S.A.
   My "S" wrench is 13mm - 14mm and is a Snap-on. I have had it for years.  It will take off any carb nut .

It is a 1971.  It was made in August 1970 and the Pan and Body have the same VIN #.
I HAVE got to get one of those S wrenches, like I said, on a regular DP intake it is a pain, but the nuts are farther apart than on this one.
Any Ideas what distributor would work good.  I seem to have alot of dead space with this 009.
(Granted I haven't touched the points or given it a tune up, or adjusted the valves, etc...)
I am a big fan of the Electronic ignition stuff and will be putting a petronix kit on it, just want to get a SVDA on it before I fork out the $80 for the kit, since they are not interchangeable...
I guess I should just pull the engine and retorque every thing and check all the seals.
Car will jump up to 70+ mph pretty easy, GPS says that the speedo is correct-ish.
I am contemplating getting a KMH speedo for a 1302 from Greece to put back in this one.
KC

I don't know what kind of deal you have on your intake but I haven't seen one that you couldn't take off with the "S" wrench. Yes it is a 12 point wrench. It even works with all 2-barrel carb's. You carb doesn't have 14mm nuts does it ?  A open-end wrench is just about impossible to use.

Maybe a 12 point flair nut crowfoot would work? 

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Or you could take a cheap flea market 13mm boxed end wrench and grind the side off of it so it would fit between the nut and intake . . .

Worked on the '70, had some road rash on the fender and the hood:

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KC

Got another beetle today in a package deal...
IT'S A LOVE BUG!!! (1974 only limited run special ed. to commemorate the movie.)
The title has the model as "LOVE BUG" it has a correct serial and has all the exterior features. (no chrome, all black.) it is the red version shown here:
http://www.sebeetles.com/lovebug.htm
It has the wheels (5) and all, just no engine or interior (dash and driver's door pannel are there, LOL.)
I have the engine that came out of it, (I bought it last year from the same fella..)
Body is in verry good shape, heater channels are in pretty good shape, floor boards are almost non existant.
Any way I do NOT need another beetle, but this is a rare special edition beetle.
Any one interested in bringing this back to life?
Let me know.
I'll have it at the new place with in the week, planning on getting it on the 5th.
KC

Took a little longer than a week, but I took the girls on our 1st outting yesterday in the Vert.  It was a blast, they had alot of fun.
I drove it to work today with the top down and it was almost COLD.
Gonna get primative and cut down a bambo blind to put in above the ribs to make a head liner, and try to spray bomb it to one color soon.  I pulled the hacked up front fenders (had '63 beetle headlights in them) and put on a set of '73 SB front fenders.
I have '72 rear fenders on the back and will have to finesse the rear bumpers on when I get some.
All in all a good drive in this morning.  The driver's front wheel is heating up, not excessive, just the high side of warm.  I adjusted the brakes and repacked and adjusted the bearings on saturday, I'll check the bearings when I get home tonight and verify that they are doing OK.  Otherwise I may just pull the rubber line off the brakes and replace it.

Engine is a "UB" coded block and has ALOT of power.  Trannie is not OEM and may be a freeway Flyer or such. 80-itsh this moringi and not even straining the engine...
Has a really LOUD cherry bomb and trumpet 4 into 1 header on it now that is baking the rear apron....
Any suggestions for a good flowing exhaust that is not going to bake an already under ventelated engine area?
Thanks KC

I have seen these engines before with a metal rebuilder tag over the original serial number, i think i remember one of those starting with that prefix.  Is it stamped into the block or on  a tag mounted where the serial number is usually found?