That's exactly it. The cooler lived in a small house, very near the
"big" house. Much as we may wish this was the set-up we used for our
kids, it's more commonly where the dog lives. Arf!

On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 06:33  AM, Dana Morphew wrote:

> Hmmm...wonder why the name was applied to the dualport.  Is it because
> the cooler was "in the doghouse", so to speak, because of its separate
> quarters? The bulge in the shroud front doesn't make it look anymore
> like a doghouse than the singleport shroud does.
>
> -Dana-
>
>> The doghouse erefers to the later type Bug oilcooler, which lived in
>> a small housing on the front-left of the dual-port 1.6 engine's
>> fanshroud. Earlier (single-port) engines had the cooler within the
>> shroud and were NOT doghouse). Single-port engines can be retrofitted
>> with doghouse cooler and shroud, which I did for my 1.6.
>> --
>> Andrew Grebneff
>> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
>> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
>> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>