re: Water-Cooled Upgrades for your T-III

[wcollins@sbnsw.com.au]

Toby, Jason and Gang,

Not only a Rotary, but also the Subaru engines.  There is a guy down under who 
is putting these babies into some air-cooled vehicles and while I haven't seen 
one in a Type 3 I did ask him about it. (And we are talking up to the WRX 
Turbo-charged intercooled versions.)

His response was that you can put them into a Notch and a Fastback but you 
will lose the rear luggage area as it needs to be modified to hold the "higher 
than original" engine.  Therefore on the Squareback you would effectively be 
wasting your time.

I have also seen a Subaru Liberty (Legacy) put into a Vanagon.  Of course you 
can put late model air cooled VW engines in the back of a Type 3 as one guy 
had done down here with an aircooled vanagon engine.

Regards,

Wayne
'72 Notch
'73 Square
'83 Sigma


Jason Renville <Jason_Renville@ccm.al.intel.com> Wrote:
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| I think I saw a kit for the rotary in that catalog.  That 
| would be very 
| interesting!
| 
| Jason
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| Subject: Re: Water-Cooled Upgrades for your T-III
| Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
| Date:    7/8/97 3:12 PM
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| 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
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| 
| I've received numerous messages regarding the how and why 
| of putting a
| Golf 1.8l motor in a Type-III.
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| 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...
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| 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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| Give them a call/drop them a line:
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| Kennedy Engineered Products
| 38830 17th Street East
| Palmdale, CA  93550
| (805) 272-1147
|