What kind of fun can I have with a VW engine?

[Ram4Sam]

Notice how the motor did not have the heater tubes connected and the decklid was just set into place and latched, not actually hinged into place. I also think they probably had some sort of plug connector for the engine harness as opposed to the factory wire harness connections at the engine.



In any event, I used to pull the fast motor in a couple of hours and replace with the stock motor, get smogged and then swap back to the fast motor.

Back in my Baja bug days, I also had a ready to go stock motor that I kept in the shed for the same reason. I even use to loan it to other VW owners I knew who needed to get a smog cert. Of course it always cost them a case of beer or two... .



Sam

 

[Batphreak]

One interesting thing I heard of long ago was an inventor back in my hometown (Rolla, MO). Ferd Telle used to make airplanes and gyro-copters using VW engines. If you needed anything related to one of those engines he surely had it. Don't know that he's still around, couldn't find much on google searches.

 

[fkovalski]

Back in the day I was REALLY into air cooled VW's. Had a 69 show low rider, de- chromed, fibreglass flip nose front, EMPI's, full VDO... (with a few trophies), '58 sedan, '68 sedan, '71 Karman Ghia and a few more that I cannot remember.



One thing that was really neat about the air cooled engine was a conversion to make a gasoline powered air kompressor (sic). The kit was the parts that allowed one half of the engine (2 cylinders on a side) to compress air on the other 2 to produce air pressure.



I always thought this was a great idea for a compressor that was away from an electrical power source. I do not know why I never did one of these. I had so many Type I engines from salvaged that it would have been an easy project.

 

[Simplysmn]

I think they work best for Drag car's there is a few Vw powered car's in the 6's in the 1/4 how about a dragster with close to 1000 hp out of a 4 cyl vw motor

 

[surfbeetle]

I think they work best for Drag car's there is a few Vw powered car's in the 6's in the 1/4 how about a dragster with close to 1000 hp out of a 4 cyl vw motor

vw paradise.com

 

[Simplysmn]

Yep that's the 1 I was talking about that is 1 bad ***** Car they have