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Hey from Louisiana

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itlives ·

Been driving VW's for awhile. I have "restored" a '58 beetle. Currently, I have an Orange '74 Westy w/ 1800.Empi 40's and a Webcam cam. I have a '71 Single cab which will be my daily soon so I can put a 2.3L Ford engine in the Westy.
A friend of mine- who's probably in here already- has a 2.8 Chevy engine in his '73 Adventurewagon. His screen name is Fastmc -I'll check the members list to see if he's here.
Anyway, I'll be lurking mostly and may start a thread on the conversion.
I've heard good things about this site and seen many links to it.

68AutoBug ·

itlives wrote:Been driving VW's for awhile. I have "restored" a '58 beetle. Currently, I have an Orange '74 Westy w/ 1800.Empi 40's and a Webcam cam. I have a '71 Single cab which will be my daily soon so I can put a 2.3L Ford engine in the Westy.
A friend of mine- who's probably in here already- has a 2.8 Chevy engine in his '73 Adventurewagon. His screen name is Fastmc -I'll check the members list to see if he's here.
Anyway, I'll be lurking mostly and may start a thread on the conversion.
I've heard good things about this site and seen many links to it.
Hi back from down under...
I didn't know engine conversions using NON VW engines was done in the USA...

there are many non VW engines in VW vehicles over here..

but probably no ford or chevy engined VWs...

Alloy V8s in a few VW utes pickups etc..

cheers

LEE

itlives ·

There's not a lot of conversions over here. There are a lot of purists. Then, there's us that don't give a hoot what they think. I have a Corvair adapter. but I was talked out of going that way.
I saw that "utes" in another thread. What is that?
Ford and Chevy engine parts are everywhere here so that's what we use. I'll have the Mexican front grill same as his.

57 oval ·

Hi, you guys normally refer to what we call "utes" or utilities as pick ups or tray backs.
Cheers
RJ

nbturbo ·

This is a 'Ute".