Chris and fellow vanagon types

I still build and sell allot of air and water cooled engines for the
Zambonis mostly propane and some LNG. They did have a single port industrial
engine in the late sixties and the early seventies.The next step was to go
to the in line 4 cylinder rabbit 1.5 and 1.6 then onto the 1.7 and now the
standard replacement engine for all water-cooled VW powered Zambonis is the
hydraulic lifter carbed 1.8 engine
I visited the factory a few years ago and they had a huge machine ready to
ship to the Netherlandsand it was diesel powered. I was told this was for
the outdoor speed skating tracks
the Nissan engine is now the standard power plant unless you have the 80 K
for the electric Ice resurfacer

I thought about this while driving in my vanagon
Bob Donalds

----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:38 AM
Subject: vw industrial aircooled motors (was: Re: better blog, good vehicle
on ice (LVC)

> In a message dated 2/15/06 4:43:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU writes:
>
>
>> But various people have told me that zambonis actually have VW engines
>
> used to..  not anymore.    the aircooled industrial beetle engine was used
> to
> power all kinds of things back in the 50's 60's and early 70's.  back in
> the
> 60's you could walk in your vw dealer and order a industrial upright
> aircooled
> engine..came strapped to a pallet with its own fuel tank, and pulleys for
> the
> PTO, etc.
> . they were used for pump engines, small machinery, even tractors and
> snowblowers, snow cats, etc.. lots of instances where cold weather made
> liquid
> cooling a problem.
>
> most of today's Zamboni's and the like have industrial japanese
> watercooled
> engines.
>
> chris
>