Re: Water-Cooled Upgrades for your T-III

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Since the vast majority of available engines are of the upright variety I 
think it would be an engineering feat to get a non-VW pancake engine in the 
back of a T3.  The only foreign engine that comes to mind that is small yet 
still packs a whole lotta horsepower for its size is the Mazda rotary 
engine.
     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L for sale
     Portland, Oregon
     http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: Water-Cooled Upgrades for your T-III
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    7/8/97 4:37 PM


I've received numerous messages regarding the how and why of putting a
Golf 1.8l motor in a Type-III.

The jist is that there is a very cool company who manufactures Engine
Adapters for VW transaxles.  They can adapt numerous types and
manufacturers motors to your VW X-axle.

I'm trying the Golf retrofit for now on this VW.  I see that they have
kits to put an American V8 of your choice!   Talk about HP to weight
rations!  Hold-on...

If anyone has seen or more interestingly so, completed on of the Golf
kits as I am attempting, please let me know.   I'd love to pick you
brains a little concerning things such as heat/defrost, engine mounts
and exhaust !

Steve

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