Aircooled VW South Africa

Did you get any reply from AMC yet?

Nope, nothing...

Reminds me of all these SA companies that I mail, don't ever get a reply....

I blame telkom

eben wrote:I blame telkom

I do neccesarily believe that the standard rod bolts are weak I have yet to see an arp or other bolt tested to destruction side by side. so whos to know what the real strength of the bolt is? I recently rebuilt a type 4 which for some reason had a conrod nut come loose (I found the nut intact in the sump! The other bolt did not break but the conrod end cap started bending (you could see fretting where the two halves meet so it must have run quite a while like this) the end cap bent enought until it came out from the crank and destroyed the engine1
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Hi Guys,
Blitz you mentioned using Deutz cylinders---please just stay away from my Deutz (must still plant a lot of food for the nation)
Some pictures---Its dirty but its working every day-- for those who have not seen one yet
Cylinder barrels wth square oil cooler




Push rod tubes (with leaking exh gasket)



The Famous Deutz fan





Cool air shroud with cylinder heads behind



From the block up each cylinder is like a engine on its own with separate
heads and pushrods like a vw. You can overhaul one cylinder at a time
Note there is a nice little oil cooler in that air stream.
Its amazing that a diesel that generates a lot of heat can be cooled so efficiently by air cooling

I saw somewhere VW motors that had been converted to DI diesel motors. Peru I think. They were type 1 motors and each cylinder had its own head like the motors here. They were 2 liter with 74mm stroke and 94 cylinders. Worked really well too for industrial use. The guy who I saw had put one in his Bug but said that a donkey cart would out accelerate it... But it did get good fuel economy on the road and they ran all day long on Ball mills that his company had.
They had 19-1 compression and had a strange looking domed shaped piece that was bolted to the piston. Interesting.

BARON wrote:Hi Guys,
Blitz you mentioned using Deutz cylinders---please just stay away from my Deutz (must still plant a lot of food for the nation)

In what vehicle is your engine?

I know them from the SAMILs we had in the Army

Hi All



Not a very exiting vehicle Pine just a good old farm tractor but whats nice about it is its also air cooled and different from all other tractors so on farmers days Ican also talk aircool with the few who can relate
Whats interesting from Rift is the possibility to build a diesel powered a/c vw engine.
Maybe the cases are a bit weak --What you guys think
baron

You know, they put ACVW motors in Tractors too. Im pretty sure that they were gasoline. I ll try to find the photos of the Diesel motor. I have them somewhere. VW tried to make a Diesel version of the motor. There are articals about it on the web you can find. The problem that they had was again lack of acceleration. In those days they had to contend to mechanical injection. But today we have High pressure direct injection systems that take care of that problem. Hmm Might be something to concider.