Something strange in every stash

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#76 Post by Adam Wright »

Ok, who's eye can pick out what wrong with this engine and why was it done?
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#77 Post by Vic Skirmants »

Bad rollover? :D

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Vic Skirmants wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:12 pm Bad rollover? :D
Nope, this was deliberate.
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#79 Post by Martin Benade »

To fit under the bed of a Beetle pickup conversion?
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#80 Post by Vic Skirmants »

Martin Benade wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:58 pm To fit under the bed of a Beetle pickup conversion?
Bingo! :D

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#81 Post by Greg Scallon »

Hmm? To make it easier to pull the shroud for an engine-in oil cooler replacement?

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#82 Post by Wes Bender »

The distributor appears to have been rotated about 90*. Maybe to clear something? Generator pulley also looks a little large, or at least with most shims missing.
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#83 Post by Jules Dielen »

that would feel right at home in a split window vw bus
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VW generator pulley.
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The engine was in a Fiberfab Avenger, didn't fit, they made it fit.
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#86 Post by Bil Brown »

tin above valve covers on wrong
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I thought an Avenger was made to fit a VW
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Martin Benade wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:25 pm I thought an Avenger was made to fit a VW
I had one one time where it had a 356 engine, but apparently whoever did this one felt the need to modify.
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#89 Post by Mark Sabbann »

The fan shroud was modified for one of those extremely rare flat-sided impellers. You scored Adam!
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