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On 24 Jul 2005 at 13:28, Timothy Kender wrote: > Has anyone had experience in transplanting a Corvair motor into a T3? > What was needed to adapt said Frankensteinian vehicle? Do trannies need > replacement? Adapters to the power plant? etc? This can be made to work in bugs and it's especially easy in buses, but I think it would be hard in type 3s. The main problem that all VWs have with this conversion is that the engine rotates the wrong way. You either have to get a special cam, which was available at one time, to reverse the engine rotation, or take apart the final drive in the tranny and flip it over to reverse it's direction. This requires some skill in setting the tranny clearances. In a type 3 you have the extra complication that the Corvair engine pulls its cooling air in from above and this would require major body rework to make it happen successfully. I have no idea if the engine will even clear the type 3 engine lid. I suspect that it's just too tall, meaning this would require more body work. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~