WBX Exhaust on Type 1 Engine?

sander288 "Bolt-on Master"

1,404 posts · joined Aug 2008 · 29 Jul 2012, 8:35 pm

#915121

Was reading an article on Club VW's website about exhausts and it mentioned that a WBX exhaust can be bolted onto a type 1 engine without too much hassle; just a flange swap.

Has anyone done this on a bug?

I've trawled the net for pictures and it seems no one has done it; probably because of the easy availability of 4-1 headers; but surely a 4-2-1 header is better for drive ability

Cheers

Shaun

BMW R65 LS
1967 1300 Deluxe
Swing-axles FTW ❗

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 29 Jul 2012, 9:00 pm

#915130

Wassers have the same ports on the heads but the flanges all face the same way, just a cut and turn job.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jul 2012, 1:32 pm

#915215

Hi

You only need to change two flanges, cant remember which ones.

Steve

Uber Kafer Wolfsburg Wizard

414 posts · joined Nov 2009 · 30 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm

#915220

check on the Samba forum and shoptalkforums in the US.
theres a bit of a scene in the US doing hybrid wasserboxer conversions, they take a wasserboxer case, machine off the water jackets shroud, relocate the head studs slightly in the case and use air cooled barrels and pistons and heads, so they mod the exhaust some times, or use air cooled headers. The crank shafts are a bolt-in to an air cooled case apparently.

search on 'oxyboxer' as well.

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 30 Jul 2012, 6:25 pm

#915255

1303Steve wrote:Hi

You only need to change two flanges, cant remember which ones.

Steve

3 and 4 😉

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jul 2012, 6:52 pm

#915266

Its actually 4 & 1, the heads fit either side😁