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Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:09 pm

hi there! just wondering if you guys can give me the link to a photo here in the forum about an aircooled vw engine that has a double generator....TIA!!!

Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:35 pm

why would you want two??

Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:56 pm

t.tuescher: nope! (it never crossed my mind) :D ....just wanted to show it to some of my buddies...cant seem to find it.....any idea?

Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:32 pm

I mean why would anyone build an engine with two generators? I dont see why someone would make one, sooo I dont think you will find one

Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:33 pm

t.tuescher wrote: why would you want two??

Maybe for the two fans.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:40 pm

once again . . . . . . Why??

else than for the heck of it,
and it might be cool
and to take up large amounts of space
and for super cooling

unless you use two engines, one in front and one in back. a great four wheel drive system!

If anybody asks how you can get 120 hp out of a stock vw 1600, just tell them get two! :D

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:11 pm

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:12 pm

Here are some links to pics from the gallery:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=537346
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=272129
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=90605
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=71950

I am looking for one because I am going to install air conditioning into our 71 superbeetle and will use the extra location for the compresser and a serpentine belt.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:23 pm

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. cool :D

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:47 pm

Some years ago I remember seeing someone fab up 2 mini 36hp shrouds in a magazine. One shroud, generator, cooling fan per side of the engine. I thought it was cool to see the end result of someone spending hours engineer a one off deal. I dont know how effecient it cooled the engine.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:56 pm

I saw a bug with two alternators at a show in Puerto Rico. He had a big ass sound system and needed both alternators to charge the multiple batteries mounted in the vehicle.

Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:54 am

How about space to get a supercharger into?
First pic is not my engine, and I could not get any info about it.

Here is my project which is on hold at the moment due to time and wife constraints. :wink:

Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:22 am

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Those are both awesome. Nice to see something different 8)

Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:38 am

Jimmy111 wrote:

oh my :shock:

I bet that thing runs......warm.

Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:55 pm

Thanks for all your comments and help guys(specially the photos)!!! this is really something different and COOOOL!!!! keep em coming!!! LOL :D :D :D

Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:39 am

Jimmy111 wrote:

conversions like this were really popular around here in the 70s and 80s especially with 36hp engines that couldnt fit 12 volt gennys but even on alot of 60s 6volt engines that people were too lazy to convert properly

some of them make oil filling a nightmare, and the ones that dont normally have ugly decklid bulges and boxes

Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:20 am

Well taking into account that people like to keep the V-belt arrangement on high HP motors because the amount of belt slippage they let occur, and then looking at the belt wrap (lack of) on that arrangement, I'm honestly surprised that thing cools at all.

Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:23 am

It dosent work good and is not recomended.
However it is done this way guite often overseas where a Japanese or Chinese alternator is a quarter the cost of a replacement VW generator.

Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:28 am

If I add a second alternator to my motor (which may happen), I'll run it to the left, over the distributor. If you run a pertronix type deal, you shouldn't really ever have to get in the distributor quickly, and it gives you better belt wrap.

I saw a bay window bus at Winter Jam that had a very cool setup. He had an A/C compressor over the distributor, then another bracket to the left of that with another alternator. He ran a double groove pulley on the A/C so the second alt had its own belt. Great belt wrap on that setup, but he had the room for it.

Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:48 am

Jimmy111 wrote: It dosent work good and is not recomended.
However it is done this way guite often overseas where a Japanese or Chinese alternator is a quarter the cost of a replacement VW generator.

i agree, locally to me (asia) alot do this..

when sum1 is too cheap to buy a vw alt when their alt gets busted

IMO looks like a Pile of crap

to my eye.. it slashes the value of a decent german metal

yet owners and sellers still try to sell their so called nice bugs for a hefty price

(couldnt even bother gettin the right alt)

ahahaha hope this doesnt become the next "look" trend

gosh