Aircooled 6-cylinder 2,7 ltr, not porsche...

[kleinporsche]

Can you post us some links of these forum please Wally? Do you know if it clears a Beetle's engine bay? or there is lots of cutting in the floor and firewall? Thanks

[Wally]

In a beetle, it would be critical towards the rear apron, but not nearly as bad as a 911 engine; Width however wouldn't be a problem at all.

But I was thinking more about an application in a type 3 or a 411/412, where the extra length of the engine itself would be about the same as a stock type 3 of 4 engine.

There is a fast (cor)vair group on yahoo: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/fastvair/

Walter

[MattKab]

Hi Wally,

That sounds like a great plan for a 412!!

If the Corvair motor turns the wrong way, can you not fit a 914 tranny in the wrong way, like 2 wrongs make a right?

All the best for the Newyear,

Matt

[Wally]

Originally Posted by MattKab

If the Corvair motor turns the wrong way, can you not fit a 914 tranny in the wrong way, like 2 wrongs make a right?

Well, that sorta was my intial thought as well to be honest.
No reason to try to make both of them turn the other way around with those parts

[kleinporsche]

found that for those interested:

http://www.corvair.com/user-cgi/cata...O&page=OTTO-36

On how to fit a Corvair engine to a VW trans.

[jmd]

Guys,
I have a corvair powered 69' Baja Bug...
I just wanted to share with you all and see if any one has any questions. The place to talk to would be Clarks Corvair http://www.corvair.com . Also review here: http://www.corvair.com/user-cgi/pages.cgi?category=vw... (realizing this has been sortof posted above)

I also have a parts list that can be posted to those that are interested in what it will take to complete the conversion. This motor is beefy, piles of torque and will, with stock vw tranny, lift the front wheels off the ground under a full-hook-up launch.

Questions:
1. Is it an easy swap?
- mostly save the need for reverse rotation
2. what about adapter plates?
- Clarks has all you need and are great to work with.
3. Spendy?
- no, the challenge is finding people to turn wrenches on it.
4. Weight?
- about 250lbs more then a stock motor. which is enough to notice...
5. Cooling?
- I cannot overstate the importance of cooling this motor... take the time.


Hope that covers it all, and as my first post, thanks for the forum!

- no longer lurking -
---jmd---

[Wally]

Cool!

Thanks for posting jmd.
I hope to have located my conversion flywheel and adapter through ebay.

I think/hope you are somewhat off on the weight, but we'll see when I get to it to weight the whole thing.

Regards,
Walter