Fellows. no need to argue a vw deserves a vw engine. Water cooled engines are cheaper than aircooled and in my opinion performe better than a aircooled. I swaped a stock 1600 single port engine that wouldn't go over 70 mph with a 1.8 fi from a golf gt and my bug goes faaaassst. My expese$450.00 Kennedy adaptor.$250.00 86 golf GT and about $300.00 in many junk yard trips and parts. I just love VW air or water cooled.....
I recently bought a '74 beetle on a '69 pan with a 2.0 Jetta engine bolted to a VW trans-axle. It's pretty quick and very smooth running. It's very reliable and gets 28 to 30 MPG. It has enough power to run A/C which I installed. The heat will come from a small heater core in a box with a fan like street rods use. I'll have that set up before winter comes.
You don't need an h2o engine to beat that crappy transmarro. A nicley done air-cooled 2 liter will do the trick. However, it's always nice to see a transmarro get its arse waxed!
now put my dads Chevy cobalt prostock car agents them lol 4 seconds down 8th mile
Kole208 1 month ago
Fellows. no need to argue a vw deserves a vw engine. Water cooled engines are cheaper than aircooled and in my opinion performe better than a aircooled. I swaped a stock 1600 single port engine that wouldn't go over 70 mph with a 1.8 fi from a golf gt and my bug goes faaaassst. My expese$450.00 Kennedy adaptor.$250.00 86 golf GT and about $300.00 in many junk yard trips and parts. I just love VW air or water cooled.....
310caliboy 2 years ago
No, I don't know of anyone who has done a diesel conversion.
prebert 2 years ago
Sounds Sweet. Do you know of anyone who's put a Jetta Desiel engine in an older bug?
Psylnz 2 years ago
I recently bought a '74 beetle on a '69 pan with a 2.0 Jetta engine bolted to a VW trans-axle. It's pretty quick and very smooth running. It's very reliable and gets 28 to 30 MPG. It has enough power to run A/C which I installed. The heat will come from a small heater core in a box with a fan like street rods use. I'll have that set up before winter comes.
prebert 2 years ago
it's a 2liter 8V engine (Golf/Rabbit 3rd generation, GTI and Passat 35i Facelift)
asdfPOWERbug 2 years ago
VW Bug with Watercooled sucks... aircooled is the best ;)
I own one -69 bug and second bug is on "finding list" when i see good one... i buy it ;)
KillerJoeFIN 4 years ago 2
Gotta be a vangon engine, they have liquid cooled heads.
coolbluelights 4 years ago
You don't need an h2o engine to beat that crappy transmarro. A nicley done air-cooled 2 liter will do the trick. However, it's always nice to see a transmarro get its arse waxed!
veloracer 4 years ago
2 liter water cooled? you mean like a vanagon engine?
kbilyak04 4 years ago