This is the prototype to the Flux Capacitor. Early Mr Fusion design,
scrapped because it overheated and sent the driver into the fourth
dimension.

Robert K

1982 Westfalia

>From: Open Wheel Racing <openwhel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>Reply-To: Open Wheel Racing <openwhel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: [T2] [BP] What is this-Is it a compressor??
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:58:05 -0600
>
>OK, OK, please don't send any one over here wearing white suits carrying
>butterfly nets, but..............................and I know this is
>wild......................Is it a two cycle engine?                 Like
>all
>of us I have been looking at this and tiring to decide if its a Chinese
>mild
>lock or some other warped trick or???????????????
>
>      I don't have the answer, but only more questions:
>
>1) I don't see any valve train!
>
>2) Where is the exhaust system?
>
>3) All of that electrical system, and no spark or glow plugs.
>
>4) Where is the fuel system?
>
>5) If there is combustion, where is the cooling system?
>
>
>     Look closely at the base of #2 (on a real Volkswagen engine anyway),
>is
>that an exhaust "gap" at the base facing toward the rear? About 150 years
>ago I used to fly model air planes, and the engines were two cycle, with
>glow plugs, and the exhaust would exit at the base of the cylinder. This
>would explain some of it, but not all.
>
>Well call me crazy, but at least I'''mm  nooot as think as yor durnk...
>
>Please let me know where to pick up the prize money if I'm right.
>
>Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!
>
>Howard
>
> > Since it's Friday, I thought I'd challenge the list geniuses to try to
> > figure this picture out. It looks to me like a homemade compressor, but
>why
> > would it be in a Bug? The more I look at it, the more confused I get.
>Look
> > at the electrical apparatus in there. It looks like too much work to be
>a
> > dummy, lots of wires etc.
> >
> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/pix/117263.jpg
> >

Robert
1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg

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