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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / General Car Topics (Australian group) / March 2008OK all you Kombi owners
Apparantly, you can put a Subaru engine in them without too much difficulty. http://www.customveedub.com.au/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=57 Fitting a WRX engine would surely let it do wheelstands. Roger RogerM blathered on in thread OK all you Kombi owners: > Apparantly, you can put a Subaru engine in them without too much difficulty. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Roger nope - you forgot about the drivetrain. Wheelie attempt simply results in expensive noises for the nether regions of the damm things, and nil progress. Now the supercharged Commodore V6 option in the later Caravelles is no bad thing - with the same cautionary note, and some farken BIG air scoops.  SignatureToby > nope - you forgot about the drivetrain. Wheelie attempt simply results > in expensive noises for the nether regions of the damm things, and nil > progress. Any 1800/2lt Kombi gearbox is caapble of having 400hp and lots of torque run through it without distress, and with mods, a heap more. They were in fact the weapon of choice in off-road racing buggies, usually in front of turbocharged Jap engines, until the Renault derived 5sp transaxle became available (and the Renault needs much, much mroe work to bring it up to "racing spec". The CVs are the same as those fitted to the turbo 6cyl Porsches and the axles are about as thick as a V8 Holden's (and probably better steel). So were exactly is the weakness if you don't mind me asking? > Now the supercharged Commodore V6 option in the later Caravelles is no > bad thing - Behind exactly the same drivetrain as any 1.8lt or 2lt "bay window" kombi, unless of course we are talking one of the "synchro" gearboxes, which are actually a bit stronger. >with the same cautionary note, and some farken BIG air > scoops. Why? SignaturePosted at www.Usenet.com.au >> nope - you forgot about the drivetrain. Wheelie attempt simply results >> in expensive noises for the nether regions of the damm things, and nil [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >fact the weapon of choice in off-road racing buggies, usually in front of >turbocharged Jap engines (snip rest) Indeed. You beat me to it. They were considered unbreakable by the buggy fraternity with Mazda rotaries also. Blue Heeler wrote... > Any 1800/2lt Kombi gearbox is caapble of having 400hp and lots of torque > run through it without distress, and with mods, a heap more. They were in [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > So were exactly is the weakness if you don't mind me asking? This reminds me of when I was an apprentice motor mech. a VW Beetle that a mechanic who I knew modified done up. He managed to squeeze a Chevy Corvaire flat 6 engine into the Vee Dub. The "boot" couldn't be closed. It sounded mean as cat's piss and gave quite a fiew of the local XU-1 hotshots a run for their dough. I can only imagine what a then model Beetle would go like with a Rex engine in it... SignatureI think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. > Blue Heeler wrote... > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > I can only imagine what a then model Beetle would go like with a Rex > engine in it... saw one of those at the Redland Bay Garage years ago fitted the Corvair engine, but had to put in a new can to reverse the engine's rotation, there was an awful lot of engine poking out the rear(although it was a beach Bug with only a small engine cowl/cover made for very light/useless steering when under power he said Kev > Apparantly, you can put a Subaru engine in them without too much > difficulty. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Fitting a WRX engine would surely let it do wheelstands. My wife's Kombi has an EA-82T in it which bestows it with "interesting" performance - but perfectly safe. When the EA82 engine cries enough I suspect that a later model one will go in, but most probably not a turbo version, I just do not need the hassle with engineering etc. The wildest Kombi re-engining I've seen was done in Cairns by the same bloke who made up my mounts and brackets - Subaru Vortex engine into Kombi. Still has me f.cked how they got engineering approval - but they did. I drove one and it was pretty "lively". The EA82-T into our Kombi has been the happiest engine conversion/swap I have ever done - It just goes and goes on occaisonal oil changes and minimal attention. The only time it has been off the road in the 8 years since the conversion was done was when the 30 year old planetry in the slush box chewed out it's internal splines. A $1600 rebuild later it is shifting surperbly and runnign quieter than it ever has in my memory. Sadly however like all Auto Union slush boxes of that vintage - it only stayed "fluid tight" for about a week and then commenced the usual dribble wherever it stops. -- > Apparantly, you can put a Subaru engine in them without too much difficulty. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Roger I've driven a WRX-engined Kombi (the last of the air-cooled shape). Performance was great, and perfectly controllable, but a long way from being a rocket. I'd love to own one just like it actually ;-D My old mechanic is currently fitting some sort of rear-mounted V8 thing to a 60's model - still about 3 months from being on the road. No idea how it's legal! ;-/ > Apparantly, you can put a Subaru engine in them without too much difficulty. > > http://www.customveedub.com.au/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=57 > > Fitting a WRX engine would surely let it do wheelstands. This is cheaper: http://fun.drno.de/pics/english/vw_rebuild_kit.jpg Signaturehttp://fun.drno.de/pics/english/rooftops.jpg |
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