The Typ3 Engine Project

The Typ3 Project starts something different.

Normally everybody asks for more displacement, but not the owner of this Project.

 

The car is used for vintage rally`s and sometimes it is used to pull a trailer with a historical Formular Vee.

So it was clear that the max. was 85.5mm Bore.

The next challenge was that it must have a closed engine compartment lid

 

 

 

Starting with a new AS41 VW Engine case

 

For the crankshaft it was the owner choice to take a NOS 69mm VW Crankshaft

 

8 doweled with I-Profil balanced rods with ARP2000 bolts

 

 

 

 

 

Close to 100 Gramm ligther wrist pins is always a good choice.

Try to remove 25g per Piston :-) 

 
 

 

Shortblock assemply with thick washers

 

37cc combustion chamber, the first cooling fin is gone

40 / 35.5 Valves

 

Lonblock with CSP Oilpump Cover

 

 

The cooling fan was welded and balanced with that large diameter ist a must for me

 

Upside down of the Longblock

 

CSP Phyton for Typ3 attached with the super short and curve manifold it is a challenge!

And you can`t use airhorns with the flat airfilters

 

The engine after Brake-In,

 

after the installation in the car it was once more a challenge to find the perfect Setup of the carbs and ignition to have no flat spot.

But we found the perfect setup and big smile on the face of the owner after the first testdrive told us.

 

Mission accomplished

Swiss Camper Special Assembly

The longblock went to the customer for final assembly.
He did a lot of engines overhauls, but only stock engines so he was happy do get this performance engine ready to finish.

On this photo you can see his self made stanless steel heater boxes

Engine is assembled an ready for the Break-Inn. Very nice assembly! Well done :-)

Engine after Break Inn

After all built-in to his nice Bay Window Westfalia.(weight: 1850kg or 4080lbs)
This is a very powerful engine together with the long transmission from the 2L Typ4 it is perfect to travel. Even with this weight it is easy to overtake or hillclimb.

Swiss Camper Special Part 2

 

There is always a lot of handwork to do ....

 

This is the layout for the rockers that I like

CroMo M8 bolts, SW15 Nuts, solid spacer and Porsche style adjusting screws

Shortblock

 

Checking the piston residue

 

 

JPS custom pushrods will replace the stock pushrods

 

 

227g weight improvement with only the pushrods ..... 

 

 

Longblock is ready :-)

 

 

 

Swiss Camper Special

New Engine Project is the "Swiss Camper Special", the goal of this project is to build a TypIV Engine with a lot of torque and power and the full reliability to push a heavy Westfalia Camper.

It`s no secret that I`m a fan of the TypIV engines.
For me it`s the perfect Bus engine!

Especially when you but in some goodies like this:

96mm AA Biral Cylinder, a good choice

 

Measuring the valvepocket volume

 

Backcut grinding on the 44mm Manley intake valve

 

Machining of the new AMC cylinderheads

 

 

I don`t like the M7 rocker studs, I replace it with custom M8 CroMo rocker studs

 

Manley Line-up

 

Longstroke counterweigth crank with H-Profile rods and ARP 2000 Screws.

This crankshaft have an additional Tenifer heat treatment is polished and balanced

 

 

A big improvment on TypIV Engine Cases too:

Gene and Gary Berg case conversation invention

 

Thick washers a perfect flat surface and the correct torque!

Final Assembly Porsche 912 Engine

This is the Final assembly of the 912 Engine

I`m proud to show you the result of a lot work and organising parts for this Project

 

 

Longblock with new Oilcooler in place

 

 

I like this view!

The Longblock looks like artwork

 

 

Manifolds and Cooling in place

 

 

The next 3 photos Show the complete overhault Solex PII-4

Many of you know that I work together with Guido Wensing

he did this brillant work on the carbs.

 

Perfect work!  Thank you Guido

 

If you like that your Carbs look like this here that`s the Link:

http://www.oldtimerwensing.de

 

 

 

Together with new Knecht Airfilter it brougth back as it should look like

 

 

!Engine Complete!