[T3] Type 4 engines

Dennis Stiefel dad23boys at live.com
Tue Jul 24 17:17:52 PDT 2018


> 
> Personally, I feel the 1.7 is such a short boost from 1.6 that I don't see the 
> point of going to the extra trouble and expense, so I suspect that most 
> people who are looking for cores will only be interested in 2.0 cores.   
> 
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> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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I agree on the t4s. If you are going to go to all the expense and work going with that go big or go home. I had a friend when I went to technical college who had a 914 with a 1.7 and I could beat him in a drag race with Clementine back when I had a 1641 in her. Seems like a 2.0 would be more common since they put them in buses from 75 on and the first two years they made Vanagons and I think the last 2 years for the 914. I know a guy locally that has an 80 Vanagon that the whole front of the van burned but the engine is untouched. The guy has a Westfalia vanagon diesel and he got the burnt one for parts but realized that not many of the good parts on it was usefully for his westfalia. Maybe I need to check on him again to see if he still has it. 

Dennis Stiefel 
72 Fastback FI MT
Rainsville AL





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