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Subject:Re: Airplane VW Engines
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:19:04 +1300

>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jon wrote:
>
>>  There is even a two
>>  cylinder version out there you cut a 1600 in half (plans on E-bay).
>
>That always struck me as an awful lot of work to go to considering you
>basically end up with a BMW motorcycle engine. ;)
>
>
>David Brodbeck, N8SRE
>'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
>'86 Volvo 240DL wagon

There's 2 ways to do it... cut the engine across the crank to make a
boxer twin, or remove 2 cylinders on one side to make a parallel twin.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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