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Boring is best accomplished buying new pistons and jugs.
Anyone have a specific kit to recommend?
Also FYI, if I didn't pick up this vw I was looking into the r16 shotgun. It's a pretty badass looking motorcycle engined powered buggy.
if it is so exspensive to make these engines have power, and everything about the engine and transaxle needs upgraded, why the hell do people even use them? why not put that money into something better...??
40 years before that I was putting a 2.5HP Clinton 2 stroke in an old pedal go-kart. I was literally 6 years old at the time. I never got it running but it was mounted and wired. There's definitely something wrong with me. This shit is truly in my genetic makeup I think. I have 2 uncles and a grandfather that are just like me in their earlier years also. Seems like we can build just about anything we want. I feel SOOOOOO lucky too. I love this shit.
Well if you guys where looking to burst my bubble you did a damn good job at it. Let me try to lower my standards a little. How about if I keep the stock crank and upgrade my pistons? Maybe bore it out a little. Is it worth me not boring and just picking up that 84 piston kit that I found on appletreeauto auto? And any cam/valve recommendations along with it?
You weren't the only one master. When I was 7 I built my first go-cart. I used the rear end off an old bulldog 3 wheeler and the frame and front end off an old junked out lawn mower. It had a 12HP briggs engine on it. I run the $hit out of it for 3 years before the engine blew up. Those were some good times!!! Lucky I didn't kill myself on that damn thing!!!
LOL!! That's funny! Some of us just do this stuff for the love of building.When I'm dead SOMEONE is going to be very lucky. UNLESS Uncle Sam fooks us that is.
Well vodo back when before BETTER was here, the lowly old VW was all we had to work with. Super bikes were pan head Harley's and the 350 Chevy was to heavy to stuff into a buggy. So we made do. Most people that work with buggy's are proficient enough to tear down over haul and fix the little four banger. That's why VW and the after market people built all the stuff to rebuild one in kits. Some people just like working on them and seeing just how far it can be pushed before breaking. Then fix it and try again. It's the love of doing. Use to be you could blow up a vw trans and go out and buy another one for Penney's. Now days you can't do that. To few and far between. Thats why it's getting expensive. But if you know what your doing then it's not so bad.
if it is so expensive to make these engines have power, and everything about the engine and transaxle needs upgraded, why the hell do people even use them? why not put that money into something better...??
I don't know how much money you have to spend on an engine. So I went to www.mooreparts.com to get you some prices. Here is a list of parts that I have used in the past, that will build a solid running 1835cc VW engine for you. This is not a kit, I like different parts from different companies, you get the better parts that way IMO 92mm Mahle forged pistons and jugs set $290W120 Engle camshaft $74Scat performance lifter set $55Gasket set with rear main seal $16Engine main bearing set $30Rod bearing set $12Camshaft bearing set $12Impe straight cut camshaft gears $50Aluminum bolt on valve covers $25Scat double O-ring spring loaded push rod tubes $65Impe bolt on sand seal pulley with longer bolt $5630mm HD oil pump for a flat cam $65Scat chromoly gland nut with washer $28Comp-u-fire 009 screamer kit $145Rebuilding air cooled VW engine manual $19 Total parts $942This is figuring on you reusing the stock crank, rods, push rods, cylinderheads, valves and rockerarms. With these parts you will be looking at 100HP 1835cc engine on pump gas. You will still have to get the block and cylinderheads bored out