[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [New Search]
Steve, I haven't seen a "complete" engine so I'll convey the best I can here... Steven Ayres wrote: > PaulW: I also expect you've got a Type IV engine on your hands, which is > not a bad thing to have. To be sure: The fan on a T4 has a plastic basket > over it, the T3 fan is enclosed in a tin shroud; My orientation to the engine is the side without the automatic transmission. >From the distributor back, is a cast shroud of some sort followed by a metal shroud. The 14v generator? is beside the distributor and next to the generator? is a condensor? (I really apologize for the lack of specifics names here.) Overlapping the cast shroud on the near right is some filter that looks like it came of a lawn mower engine. (When will that shop manual get here???) Beside that on the far right is a "pancake filter" about 3.5" to 4" thick. Maybe this will clear things up - then again, maybe not :) > the T3 will have at > least a footing for a mechanical fuel pump at the rear on top, just like > a T1, where the T4 has none; In this location is a metal "box" with 4 tubes attached leading 2 to the right, 2 to the left. > the T3 has a generator on the left on top, Top left confirmed. > the T4 has an alternator on the right and low. No, this generator is top left on my engine. > => I have been told that the T3 engine does not fit in a T1 chassis. > > True in that the sheet metal is all different and the T3 would suffer > greatly from undercooling, but to cram it into a Bug or something would > be a huge waste anyway. If it's a T4 you're looking at really *major* > modification work. Now to take that T4 and put it into a T3, on the > other hand, would still require a lot of engineering but at least you'd > have a good car afterward. (Sorry T1 lovers -- T3s *rule*!) Noted. > => Providing I can't find a 411/412 chassis, what would you do with this > => engine. > > Its best and easiest application is in a late Bus, and if you decide to > sell it, look for a Bus owner. If the heads are not cracked, it's worth > at least $500 regardless of mileage. Noted. > => What would you do with a T3 engine without a chassis? > > Find yourself a nice straight Square that needs an engine and go to > *town*. Great car! > > > Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ > '66 KGhia 1600 (who killed her first bugs today, folks!) Thanks for the help Steven! Paul Ward psward@richnet.net Getting closer to the identity on this engine....