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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:28 am    Post subject: 1980s, air-cooled VW Gol: upgrade for VW Types 1, 2 & 18 Reply with quote

1980s, Brazilian built, air-cooled engined, VW Gol (not Golf !): engine upgrades for VW Types 1, 2 & 181

Whilst browsing through some of my old car magazines, I came across an article (Neil Birkitt, " VWs From Abroad: It's not Golf, it's GOL!", VW Motoring, December 1995, pp68~70), about the Brazilian built VW Gol, featuring a VW 13/1600 Type 1 style, air-cooled engine, but with redesigned, twin-port cylinder heads (valves inclined at 15º to the cylinder axis, rather than parallel) and a cooling system with axial-flow fan and integral alternator (akin to the Porsche 911 arrangement), whose fan inlet is at the crank-pulley end, rather than the flywheel end of the engine.

The air-cooled engined VW Gol, went on sale in Brazil, in the early 1980s and it's interesting to note, that the redesigned, twin-port cylinder heads and unique cooling system, were sold by Claude's Buggies (later renamed CB Performance), as a performance upgrade for VW Type 1, 2 & 181 engines. By 1995 or perhaps earlier, the VW Gols, were re-engined, with VW 1600 & 1800 water-cooled, in-line engines.

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Nigel A. Skeet
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