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Hello- > > Minor concerns: flywheel, tranny input shaft, clearance above the engine for > > carbs, etc. > > > Glad to see someone mentioning the fact that the tranny input shaft IS > different between the Type1/3 and the 1.7,1.8 and 2.0 liter Type 2. True, but adapting one to the other really is a piece of cake. The "short story" version is this: get a 210mm or 215mm bus flywheel (210mm is quite a bit cheaper and easier to find), pressure plate, and clutch disc. Then, get a T1/T3/914 pilot bearing (a $5-10 part) and get the hole in the center of the bus flywheel reamed out to fit it. All done! It will fit in the bellhousing the _exact_ same way a 200mm 12V flywheel on a bug would. Not to say that the auto tranny idea isn't a good one (it is!), but not everyone wants an auto tranny. One other problem: T4 flexplates (from late automatic busses and 411/412's only) don't exactly grow on trees, and neither do the special bolts that are needed to bolt it to the crank. They aren't _impossible_ to find, but take a little work. Take care, Shad Laws LN Engineering - Aircooled Precision Performance http://www.lnengineering.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org