| Jason72SuperBug |
Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:12 am |
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How to run 101.6 mm cylinders on a type 1 engine on the street?
Has anyone done this - I have been advised that this won't work due to cooling inadequacies.
Has anyone made a sheet metal water jacket for finless cylenders ?
ie welding two cylinders together by placing them in a box structure that water/ coolant is pumped through.
May or may not work but it is worth asking.
Thanks
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| MEANIRISHMOFO |
Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:36 am |
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| I would think if you really want that big, Just run a a/c type4. IMO |
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| Mick |
Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:10 am |
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| Theres a thread over at shoptalk forums about modifying Porsche cylinders to fit, they're aluminium and so cool better, but its a spendy exercise. |
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| josh |
Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:37 pm |
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| If you want a water cooled engine, the engines that fit with the least hassle are subaru engines. Kennedy Engineering Products sells the adapters. Water cooled vanagon engines are another possibility but with the low horsepower, high cost and reliability problems they really aren't worth the trouble. |
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| josh |
Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:39 pm |
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| P.S. with all the problems the vw engineers had with their watercooled bug engine design I think a do it yourselfer would have serios problems. |
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| gears |
Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:08 am |
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| A number of people have machined the fins into a box shape, welded on plates, and then liquid-cooled the heads. One of the most successful that I've seen used an automatic oil pump with a separate oil tank in order to OIL-cool the heads. The valve lash on this engine rarely needed adjustment. |
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