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Toyota in a Bug
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:28 pm
by bisoy
good day vw gurus. i live in the philippines and subaru motors arent very abundant. surplus toyota engines are quite abundant here. anyone has done any mods with toyotas? your inputs are highly appreciated... thanks. more power
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:26 pm
by letterman7
check out
http://frost.bbboy.net/vwengineconversions. There's a thread there that follows a Toyota conversion. Then your Bug could be a called the 'Rising Hun'...just kidding...
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:10 pm
by bisoy
any other site? i cant seem to acess the site..... any more inputs wil be appreciated...
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:59 pm
by letterman7
http://frost.bbboy.net/vwengineconversions
Hmmm..here's the same thing as a cut and paste..let me try it again. If it don't work, I'll try to get the www address if it has one...
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:02 pm
by bisoy
i stumbled into that site before. nice pics of the engine.... neat. i tried emailing the posters on that thread for details.... no one has responded yet. maybe somebody here has had experience with toyota engines on a bug.... ur inputs will be highly appreciated.... thanks guys....
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:17 pm
by Shadowbug
I've got a buddy who is big into toyotas, I've helped with several 4age and one 4agze swap, I really like the toyota engine, the fact that its DOHC but still non-interfearance is a big plus, volkswagen could take a lesson from that design
eventually I'm going to be building a Locost 7, which will definatly be based on the 4AGE engine.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:09 pm
by bisoy
so a 4age fits into the engine compartment? i was planning to install a 4age 20v. anybody has comments on this? or would i be better off with a full race 2tg stroked to 2L? what do u guys think?
shadowbug, what sort of problems did ur friend encounter? maybe u can enlighten me with some stuff...
lastly, i might have problems with the adapter kit being mailed to me? how difficult is it to make one? can any machine shop do this? wha sort of things do i need to look into if i have it fabricated locally?
thanks guys....
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:52 pm
by Shadowbug
the 4age's that we swapped went into toyotas, so I'm familiar with the engine, but not how it'd fit into a vw.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:21 pm
by 71bugbite
kennedy performance makes an adapter to put many different engines in a volkswagen..the only hard thing i would see about doing the swap is doing the fuel injection