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Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:51 pm

Okay I've got a 1600 DP which front engine tin do I use. The one I have has a square hole on the left side. It doesn't fit that well and what goes on the hole?
Thanks

Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:25 pm

Sounds like the front tin for a doghouse cooler shroud.

Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:35 pm

You need the tin pieces for the 1971 bus. Except for the forward tin piece. For that you need the 71 and later Beetle one.

Here is a good webpage to referance:
http://www.bus-boys.com/aircoolsystem71.html

Beware of aftermarket tin junk. Better to get used German stuff to clean up and use.
PLUS make sure you use the 33, 34, or 35mm wide fan measured between the discs, and the large crank pulley with a "D" stamped in the rear side of it. That way you have enough air pumped through to keep it cool.

Rear tin will need to be trimmed to fit the earlier engine compartment.

Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:16 pm

I have a 1600sp in an oval. The breast plate was hacked to hell by the PO and I never had a front tin. Youre saying a 1971 bus breast plate will work and 71 n later beetle front tin with trimming will work with 1600 in an oval engine compartment? I have standard 1600 oil cooler and tin I believe. No doghouse

Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:14 am

OvalWindowBucket wrote: I have a 1600sp in an oval. The breast plate was hacked to hell by the PO and I never had a front tin. Youre saying a 1971 bus breast plate will work and 71 n later beetle front tin with trimming will work with 1600 in an oval engine compartment? I have standard 1600 oil cooler and tin I believe. No doghouse

You should upgrade to the DH system. #3 cylinder runs much cooler due to not having the oil cooler up stream of that cylinder.

For a non-DH cooling you can use any Beetle 1500 thru 1600 up to 1970 front and rear tin. Though you want to match the rear tin so as to work with the preheat tube that fits your stock air cleaner. Rear tin will have to be cut and welded to fit the early engine compartment.
Remember front mean closest to the front bumper. Rear means closest to the rear bumper.

Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:34 am

I have a rail type dune buggy with a VW Type 1 1600DP engine. I do not have the breast tin (this is the one that goes below the crank pulley, right?) installed on my engine. I do have the tin that goes over the cylinders and the little deflectors that go under them.

I assume I don't need the breast tin since there is no engine compartment. The whole engine (and everything else for that matter) lives outside all the time. Is this a dangerous assumption?

Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:52 am

VW built what was called "industrial engines" which never occupied an engine compartment. Even then a rear tin that was extra long was installed so the exhaust hot air pumped through the cooling tin would be that much farther away from where the cooling air is sucked into the fan shroud.