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Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:18 pm

without cutting out of the case and added on to the case for clearance what is the biggest size you can go with a regular vw block clearning as much inside the case as possible??? 2332?
please if you can help it would be nice
thanks PEACE!

Fri Jul 25, 2003 8:14 am

i think you can do a 2443 with out going thru the top, but it gets real thin... bernie bergman advertises a 2500cc, but i dont know anything about his stuff, as i have never seen one of his big motors in person. i think the 2443 is a 90mm stroke with 94mm pistons, but cant remember off the top of my head.

Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:28 am

there is the posibility of putting in a 96.5 cylinder in, but these are kind of race only, and will distort in no time. But they do fit with in the stock head stud pattern.
I have also seen 98 porsche cylinders with in the stock head stud pattern too, but this takes a load of mods to make work. Definitly not a drop in.

So an 86 crank with 96.5 would be 2516cc
put a 90 crank in and you would be looking at 2633, but that 90 crank will be doing some flexing in race conditions with out using big main journals.

Remember this is all race only in mind.

Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:11 pm

that is all we plan to do is use it for drag racing

Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:05 pm

There are Type 4 engines that are close to the 3.0l mark, and Jake Raby of www.aircooledtechnology.com is building a T4 that is going to be near 3.4L.

Granted this has little to do with what you asked, I just thought I'd share.

Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:34 pm

its all good we are up for whatever were working on a bug for all out drag racing just some fun times im sure you all are familiar with that... anyways im up for anything right now we wer just working on the frame an all cause it was a beater bug so we decided to drag race it out to the fullest we can so any suggestions idea's PLEASE let it be heard, some tranny info would be nice to what is going to hold this power our idea so far is a 2332 turbo charged thats what we are aiming towards anyways thanks for viewing.

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Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:05 pm

search shoptalk fourum,plenty of help there....57drag

Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:58 pm

Could always check out the LN Engineering folks. You can get 104 mm pistons with cylinders from them, then you can go even bigger CC. I have been reading their stuff and their aluminum ones, though near to 3 grand and up for the set, less weight and keeps the engine cooler. This is, if you want to spend that much on them.