I have a one of these 126A motors in my Splitty, and have had another in a beetle, and have 2 more in the shed. There is a 122A motor about which is a 1200cc but the 126A is 1600cc.
They are great motors if all you want is a nice 1600 and don't plan on hotting it up at all. Being single port, they are quite torquey motors, and they pull pretty hard. Fuel economy is great, reliability is excellent (its all german parts), and you know that you've probably got 10 years+ of driving before it will need redoing. Most german dual port motors are probably on their 2nd/3rd/4th rebuild by now.
You will need to get the following to put it in your car:- Distributor, Carby, Heat Exchangers & Fan Housing & Exhaust (if you want heaters), generator stand, generator, pulley+nut, rear breast tin, flywheel, lower engine mounting studs (they have puny small ones),
If you want to see some pictures of them:-
http://www.matara.net/gallery/armyengine?page=2
You can pick them up for between $400 (incomplete and fairly used) to over $2000 with all the bits and very low hours. They have an hour meter on them to tell how much usage they've had. Try and get one from a cool room as pictured below, as they don't have the green paint and cork sound deadening on them.
Cheers
Steve
