Ya Gonna Play OFF ROAD Show and Tell or What?Post it up?

[Lotrat]

That part number on the head was used on 1961-1964 VW motors 1200 Type1 motors. It was also used on the 1961 fastback, notchback, squareback. Since you showed us the short oilcooler, it must be from one of those cars...

[bajaherbie]

maybe a generator motor or one of the fire truck pumper engines?

[david58]

maybe a generator motor or one of the fire truck pumper engines?

You left out the industrial air compressor thingy.

[Lotrat]

[bajaherbie]

l'rat, did you get a new engine for your baja?

[Lotrat]

Rick gave it to me in a blue bin. It really blows... it's only a single port.

[sideshow]

That crazy oil cooler isn't good enough? It is from the early 1960's and is (in my opinion) kind of an odd mix of traditional era correct ACVW and the “then state of the art” next generation vehicle.

What I found odd;

• No thermostat, no boss in the case either
  Distributor drive was that one thick washer style, not the two thin washers
  Fresh air heater, but I didn't see any linkage on the smash up boxes
  I believe the heads were optional for another application, but the oil cooler I assume is unique to only one.
  It was 6volt, badly burnt crankshaft was non-o-ring (and not a 40hp version and not a 36hp version) and rods appeared to be 311A
  The manifold heat riser ran from the #1 & #3 cylinder

Come on, if you were abusing a baja in the pre-1980's where would find a donor engine?


Edit: Lowrat is pretty damn close, don't get hung up on the head part number...and I don't know if I have mentioned that it is not a 1200cc/40hp

[bajaherbie]

notchback vw car engine? i don't know what in the h-e-double-toothpicks it is called, something like pancake or flat somethingoranother.

[david58]

Info from here

[sideshow]

Info from here

Holy crap, I've never seen another! And the answer I was looking for was “a freakishly early type-3, like one of the first few years”

This one must be a later one as the manifold is the cast aluminum but the carb was one piece (as in nothing moved) and the plastic linkage is intact. I'm still freaked out with the no thermostat blower shroud, even the lowly beetle had one and that oil cooler adapter to mount a steel one sideways is just crazy.

The engine case code is “O” making it a pre 1962 model year type-3, but there was no such thing as a type-3 in that era only VW's brand new fifteen-hundreds!

Now the fifteen-hundreds were the upscale models and while beetles had 36/40h (both were 1200ccs) the engines in the new models were a whopping 1500cc's, as an option a Bus could be special ordered with a similar 1500cc (hence the heads could of fit variant or from a special order bus) else they had 1200cc engines.

Of course chaos ensued a few years later when beetles/bus/ghia started shipping with 1500cc single port engines that had a different head (angled port). Names were changed, history was rewritten, bodies disappeared, and the warren commission was formed.

Good job with googly googly!

[david58]

I pass Somebody, anybody post something up.

[bajaherbie]

hey, i was close....

[Lotrat]

I pass Somebody, anybody post something up.

You can't pass, it's in the rules.

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The interwebs is full of pictures. Go get one.

[david58]

Hold your breath Lotrat.

[david58]

OK you asked for it have fun.