![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is my budget? What can I afford? (aka: How much will my wife let me spend? LOL!).Ask yourself the following questions regarding: The very first thing you must do is determine exactly what it is you would like to achieve, and realistically assess the budget that you have to work with! Engine selection is a series of compromises – you can’t have everything! You have to decide which aspects of engine building and performance are most important to you, and then quantify and assign them each a priority. Relatively speaking, it doesn’t take a lot of power for you to really get moving! 140 HP will keep even the Mustang GT’s in your rear view mirror on the street, and 180 HP will eat Corvette’s and Vipers for lunch all day. The Beetle (and other Type 1 VWs) are fairly light cars. There are careful decisions to be made with regard to the engine size and components that are “right” for what you have in mind. This article is a guide to the theory and choices involved in building performance engines for Aircooled VWs (Type 1). Building a ‘Big’ Aircooled VW Engine (Type 1) ![]()
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