Who says you can't race a type-4??

[aircooledtechguy]

I've been spending several weekends lately auto-xing my 2316cc type-4 powered Squareback at the local track. Who says you can't race a type-4??

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKzCgZkUuQ

[crocteau]

Sweet! Respect!

[Lo Cash John]

What are the specs on the engine and suspension?

[aircooledtechguy]

What are the specs on the engine and suspension?

It's a 2316cc stroker that was built by my son Josh (at age 14). It's running MS3X injection, 45mm ITBs LS2 coils Fully sequential fuel & spark. 9.5:1 CR. Porsche 912E 5-speed. Porsche 911 front suspension, steering & brakes. 944 rear suspension & brakes. Speedway engineering 1" hollow sway bar in front, 5/8" EMPI bar in the back. Koni yellows in front, KYB's in the rear.

The photo on the top is of me taking my daughter's new BF for a hot lap. I literally met him for the first time 2 minutes before that photo was taken. "Hi, nice to meet you. Hop in. . ."

[NextGen]

Nate I had several T-3 and think it was one of the best cars vw every made. Had hot T-3 engines, cams etc and they were nice but never did a T-4 in it. Perfect car for that engine.

My wifes favorite car, we did 2 trips to Miami from NY in it. Believe it or not it had AC. But on the trips I was afraid to use it. The compressors were massive, actually I made an air compressor from it. Still have it.

[Piledriver]

With a modern AC compressor the AC is almost not noticeable for engine load, even when it kicks in.
The variable displacement Delphi unit I run on the current 1.8L T4 does a "soft start" from 5% each time its fired up, so it almost doesn't even effect the idle.
(The Megasquirt compensates so fast I have yet to bother hooking up the "AC idle up" feature)

In some ways the T4 actually works out better fit wise than the original engine did, esp as the T4 factory cooling was designed to take an AC compressor, so there are no funky slots cut in the air intake tin for the belts to allow it as on a T3 motor--- not an afterthought.

The T4 AC belt runs behind the fan.

[NextGen]

A big sign of vastly improved AC compressors was when I was on vacation in the Caribbean and I rented a 3 cylinder car and it had AC that worked really well..