<VV> Porcorvairsha

Zane Brock zanebrock at bellsouth.net
Sun Apr 22 13:22:42 EDT 2007


Interesting, the 912 engine was a 1.6 Liter. The 914 first ran a 1.7 then a
1.8 and finally a 2.0. The stock engine for the 1976 912E (one year only)
was the 2.0 liter 914 engine. It was quite common to see someone put a 2.0
in a 912 to boost the power. I am about to drop a 2.1 vanagon engine in a 74
super beetle. I'll take ya own Tony with my crappy bus engine! ;> Maybe
later I can stuff a corvair 140 in a bug. Now that would be a scat monster a
Super Varybeetle.

Regards,
 
Zane Brock
zanebrock at bellsouth.net
678-494-5281office
678-231-6373 cell

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Tony Underwood
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:30 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: RE: <VV> Porcorvairsha

At 03:08 PM 4/20/2007, John Kepler wrote:

>A few misunderstandings...
>
>The 356/912 engine is a specialty application; very high performance for
>the time.
>
>All I know is, our 356 got beat by some cars and beat plenty of
>others.....but we NEVER got beat by a 914 with that VW Type 4 that some
have
>said was so much better...never even had one get close in fact!


...wouldn't the type iv engine be more of a "bus" powerplant than a 
revver intended to make power for spirited driving?     I would more 
likely assume that the type iv engine would be an alternative for the 
912 so as to make the car runable again should its engine bay become 
empty, for whatever reason.

As such, it could be compared to the Corsa turbo that lunched its 
engine and a 95hp variant found its way into the car to make it 
roadworthy again.

...or something.    ;)

Hell, if a type iv fell into my lap I'd probably stick it into this 
912 if it would make the car run...  keep the 'Vair driveline for a 
Corvair.    It's not as if I don't have another 'Vair with no engine 
waiting for something to make it go again.



tony..    no VW authority at all



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