WTB: VW Industrial magneto

G'day. I know I have tried in the past but I'll try again.

Does anyone have a magneto from a converted industrial motor or whatever lying around?
I'm working on a seriously budget project and am scavenging for parts to make something a little unique.

I don't care if it's been sitting at the bottom of a parts pile in the shed for fifteen years and has accumulated an interesting patina, or whatever. Not after it for looks. It's either a magneto, a mech only or a double vacuum dizzy, and I know what I want.

U2U me or get me at tristan dot mumford at gmail dot com if you have something. We can discuss further then.

Thanks,

Tristan.

Thanks for trying to save me the embarrassment, but in all honesty I wasn't aware and I'll admit it. Is the limiter killable?

Ah bugger. Unless I could get my hands on one to pull down it's hard to determine too. Anyone have a stuffed one I can pull to bits and document?

Be useless for my van in its current incarnation. It'd probably run out of revs at about 90km/h.

IN2VWS wrote:I might be wrong, but I don't think it is killable.
That is why industrial engine maggies are reasonably cheap, and ones for racing are expensive.

I will ask my brother, he runs an industrial motor in his otherwise stock '54 beetle. Has original Sintilla (spelling??) magnito still on it. It drives just fine, and am certain it rev's above 3000rpm.
Industrial motor magnito's do lack in the advance depatement though, not perfect for street use, but it does run and drive fine.
I have seen industrial motors with a governor, but that is a separate attachment.

Are you planning street use?? You need to consider power for other things, and how to stop the motor once running!!

Much appreciated.

As it is the motor is a mishmash of mismatched parts. I'm also planning on fitting a turbo in the future to give a little boost, not a lot. so that pretty much nullifies the current (incorrect) vac advance distributor anyway.

As weird as it sounds I want to make it up so at least I can bolt on the parts to make the motor pretty much indestructible. I also plan on fitting a lug for a hand crank and doing the metal mods to suit. This is to a typeIV motor too by the way. So fitting the magneto would be interesting.

My goal like I hinted at above is to build something that I can take out to the places I like to go camping and exploring where performance isn't really important but reliability is. I know what you are thinking. But I want to do it with a VW.
For street use I might even have a normal dizzy to drop in. Whatever. It's easy enough to do on them.

As for stopping it. Either fuel cutoff, or a kill switch would be plausible... I guess. How did they stop the industrials?

So people. that is why I want a Magneto.