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Theo, What a marvellous story you've brought out in the open! It always surprises me what sort of stories can be behind a 'common' VW. I have an idea about the engines Hans Geschwatz might have used for his 'illegal' type 3s. You wrote: >So around 77-79 they built some cars out of these parts, >As they didn't have (or rather didn't want to use) enough proper type 3 engines, so >some had engines that were a mix between type three, the short block at least, and >type 1/2/4, carbs, cooling, etc. Most were 1600cc with a single carb, which were never >produced for type 3 by VW ! Aaron Britcher wrote: >I can't remember exactly but I believe that I too saw a 78 or 79 >squareback and it was rather strange in the engine compartment. It had >the european weirdo motor that looks like a Type 1/3 case but has >different tinware to T3 and has a screw on oil filter like the Type 4. It seems to me that some 1.6-l. CT-series '79-'82 Transporter engines were used. VW wanted to keep the 1.6-l. engine as an option, but could not use the upright fan type from the bay-window Bus as the engine compartment of the Transporter was too low. So they 'pancaked' the 1.6-l. type 1 engine and added refinements such as hydraulic valve lifters and thus a proper spin-on oil filter. This 1.6-l. engine is not very common, as most air-cooled Transporters of that era seem to have been sold with the 2.0-l. type 4 engine. (Can hardly wait for the follow up on this story!) Hanno Spoelstra <H.L.Spoelstra@WbMt.TUDelft.NL> Bloemendaal, The Netherlands