This thread is a sign of changing times: air-cooled engined bay owners having to defend their choice of engines!
First and second are fine and its great up to 20 taking a run at a trailer, i will let you know more if i ever get it on the road, oh i used reverse the other day on the drive
It's strange, Had my 1600 for 8 years, been all over the place, never missed a beat. but always was afraid it would go bang ?? Then go ahead swopping it for a silly money unknown state scooby lump ?? I rest my case
Quite possibly as quick as yours though? and a whole lot cheaper and less effort to get to that point. I can see the attraction myself in a standard engine that goes like **** of a shovel so less likely to thrash itself to pieces and without all the years of special this and that, paying race engine builders etc. I doubt yours will still be going strong in 1oo,ooo miles and if it is you'll have had it to pieces 50 times by then?
It's all good IMO... Space frame and Ali panels...go light....it's not a VW type 2 anymore, but who cares....whatever takes your fancy....
Quite right, no judgement from me. Exactly, but bolt in a subaru turbo engine and they've beat you already for comparative peanuts and it'll be a standard unstressed engine that'll last as well. You think you're having more fun because you're loving all the building and spec part and trying to get insane power from a crappy old VW engine, but other peeps just want to go on holiday, give the odd dickhead a surprise off the lights and avoid the huffy wife scenario when it breaks down.
I do like my type 4 engine at the moment wouldn't want to change anything while it is running fine , but if it went ( BANG christ all mighty ) i would't mind golf diesel conversion that's if it's been totally mastered yet , someone tell me if it has ? . Jokingly what about putting a Foden 4 cylinder 2 stroke with a dry sump , not jokingly a wealthy chap by the name of Mr Cavendish put a foden 6 cylinder 2 stroke in a 1949 bentley , an absolute killer gorilla by all accounts . At the end of the day it doesn't really worry me what people put in there buses , there is always going to millions of traditional buses knocking around for the puritans . lets face it the over all look of them still remains the same until they open the engine hatch or when they rip them up . One of my favorite conversions is that guy that works for Johnsons autos with that diesel conversion in that metallic green bay with just a boot where the engine was , my only criticism would be doing away with the air intake vents even though they are no longer needed , maybe it was causing unnecessary drag .
A 2,4, and i have had a couple of them, will take you anywhere you wanne go with minimum of maintenance, 25-28 mpg. had mine for 4 years, did nothing to it. Well, took it to the track and did a 15,9