type 4 starter engine

[73notch]

why work with a powerplant when you have to make so many sacrifices.
The whole thing: Cheap, reliable, fast, pick 2 thing is pretty accurate.
I thought it was BS, i wanted all 3!!!!!!
Im all for aircooled motors, I love the simplicity, but its pretty apparant that hipo vw motors are reaching their limits when they are built, where as a new watercooled motor can make really good power reliably STOCK and then be upgraded. Why limit yourself?? If it was a new aircooled motor it would be even better, but they dont make them anymore. Its just modern technology. Honda motors make 100hp/liter stock in economy cars! It would cost a crap load to make a vw motor do that, would it be as bulletproof as a stock motor? hell no.
I mean, one of the main reasons the type 4 motor is appealing is because it was bigger stock, and because it made more power stock. Same thing applies. If vw still made flat 4s, lets call it a "type 6" im sure a ton of people would have them in their cars. A motor swap is a motor swap

-Ryan