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RE: Motors


1. Yes.
2. You mean aside from ignoring the stares of disbelief or having to shout
to
anyone since you won't have an engine cover?  Too many for a Squareback,
enough
to be too many in a Fast or Notch.
3. Nope.

What shop manuals do you have?  For basic maintenance and work you should
have
an Idiot's Guide...a Bentley and/or Haynes is recommended as well.  What are
your problems?  The T3 is the same engine as a T1 with exception to engine
cooling, but even then that isn't any complication.  Fuel injection
problems? 
Simpler to correct than most people think but if you are just dead set
against
it then switch to a stock carb setup -- just be sure to carefully remove the
FI
system and give it to a listee! ;)

I know you didn't learn the T1 overnight so don't expect the same from the
T3
(give yourself a break!).  At least knowing a lot about the T1 will give you
an
edge about the T3, heck, I had to teach myself and after 13 years I'm still
learning (usually the hard, expensive way...)!

What can I do to help?  Because a T1 in a T3, particularly a Squareback,
will
put a canyon in your relationship and remove all value from the T3 (unless
you
plan on putting gobs of money in it to use as a racing vehicle).

   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
   '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
   Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

>-----Original Message-----
>I just have a couple of questions........
>
>     1. Can a Type 1 motor fit and run a Type 3?
>
>     2. If a T1 will fit, what kind of accomodations will I 
>have to make?
>
>     3. If a T1 will fit, does anyone want to trade for an 
>original T3 1600?
>                 (Hoping against all hope)
>
>I'm just tired of dealing with something that is causing a rift in the
>marriage (and I know how to work T1's)


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