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From 1.6 litre to 14 litre, should I do it?? :D:D

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Volkswagenboy Staggers Automotive.

2,437 posts · joined Jul 2005 ·

#564104
Do ya think it'll fit in my bug???
That's 14 litres, 530 horsepower, turbocharged, direct injection V8...

I doubt it!
-Staggers.
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barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,474 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#564105
id like to see the face of the engineer when you told him what you wanted to do 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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Volkswagenboy Staggers Automotive.

2,437 posts · joined Jul 2005 ·

#564107
lol
You know, I should actually ask an engineer just for a laugh!
-Staggers.
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pod i`ve got to finish this thing one day

4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·

#564109
watch out The Munsters 😂 as you would have to build a platform just to sit on and steer out the back👍

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Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#564126
hey it worked in herbie
a bus engine was the only way they could get it to do those huge wheelies

whatnow Custom Title Time!

1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#564141
sorry but i think that that V8 is the wimps option.....

RR Griffon mk58 36.7l 2435hp is more like it. 🙂

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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#564151
Volkswagenboy wrote:Do ya think it'll fit in my bug???
That's 14 litres, 530 horsepower, turbocharged, direct injection V8...

I doubt it!
-Staggers.
I'd love to build a big hotrod with a motor like that. would be the ultimate family cruiser and you could tow a caravan in style. 👍
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Volkswagenboy Staggers Automotive.

2,437 posts · joined Jul 2005 ·

#564159
pete wood wrote:
Volkswagenboy wrote:Do ya think it'll fit in my bug???
That's 14 litres, 530 horsepower, turbocharged, direct injection V8...

I doubt it!
-Staggers.
I'd love to build a big hotrod with a motor like that. would be the ultimate family cruiser and you could tow a caravan in style. 👍
Or a 65 tonne B-Double!
-Staggers.
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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#564177
Pansies.... this'd eat a Griffon for brekkie.. and its aircooled too hehehe

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The Wright R-3350-32W Turbo Compund Duplex-Cyclone... 18 cylinders, 33.5 litres and 3700HP of direct-injected turbo-supercharged fun! :bounce :jesus

They'll drop right into a bay! 🤓 😂


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1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
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whatnow Custom Title Time!

1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#564196
schmo, i had discounted radials as too big for a beetle but hadn't considered a bus....

i like the way you think.

would you mount the scoop on the roof or fabricate a second and mount one on each side?

i'm having visions a display bus with a 23 window roof (well the sunroof and first 3 side windows), RAAF cab roof windows, poss angle choped as per the hotwheel drag bus with cooling flaps cut in a ring around the body. "cyclone in a bottle"?

any chance one of you photoshop people could mod the roof on this for me?

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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#564217
whatnow wrote:schmo, i had discounted radials as too big for a beetle but hadn't considered a bus....

i like the way you think.

would you mount the scoop on the roof or fabricate a second and mount one on each side?

i'm having visions a display bus with a 23 window roof (well the sunroof and first 3 side windows), RAAF cab roof windows, poss angle choped as per the hotwheel drag bus with cooling flaps cut in a ring around the body. "cyclone in a bottle"?

any chance one of you photoshop people could mod the roof on this for me?

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This is indeed sounding very tempting... would be a great idea for a display bus, however even cooler would be a double-door bay panelvan... the ultimate sleeper!... would look almost totally stock until such time as you open the slider's to allow for cooling 😁

Now hey... why didn't anybody ever think of sliding cowl-flaps before??... would have solved the B-29's overheating (ie catching fire and blowing up off the end of Anderson AFB 😂) issues in a snap... 🤪

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR we could go about it a totally different insano way... and graft the engine nacelle of a DC-7 or P2V into the back of the bus, raise it a few splines, and fit a shortened 4-blade Hamilton-Standard constant-speed bugmasher onto it... not only does it look nuts, it will also do away with the need for a solid titanium clutch, flywheel and transmission! 🤓 :bounce

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1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/c

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1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#564233
Schmoburger wrote:it will also do away with the need for a solid titanium clutch, flywheel and transmission!

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you could always mount the cyclone east west and run it with a chain drive to a solid axle, as for a clutch... who needs one, just a line lock and water sprays for the rear tires so you could hold it at the traffic lights.

well its a thought.

i think if you had worked at boeing (is that how you spell it) in the 40's the war would have been over months earlier.

while we are modding with vw concepts, imagine the reduction in combat fatigue in bomber command if all the heavies had been fitted with golde ragtops so the crew could kick back and relax on the way home from a hairy raid. (adding one on the bottem would have made bailing out easier too)

sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#564331
Bung it in your Rangey, Brenton!

BTW, love your new avatar pic 😉
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