Type 3 engine in a buggy
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:32 pm
Let me start by saying that I do NOT plan on doing this myself, but the idea of putting a pretty standard Type 3 engine in a buggy have fascinated me for a long time. In the 60's, when Type 3's were starting to become more available, certain buggies were even specifically designed for Type 3 engines, like this Manx Beach Patrol buggy, which had extra luggage space above the ('flatter') engine:
There is a lot of debate about how effective the cooling is in an 'open' buggy, since you don't have the 'channeling' of air, as in a Notch, Square or Fastback. Yet there are thousands of buggies running for thousands of kilometers with 'standard' Type 3 engines.
This buggy, one of two used in the James Bond movie 'For Your Eyes Only', also had a Type 3 engine -
But what made me wrote this post, is the pic below that I saw on TheSamba today - what an ingenious way of routing an exhaust! Imagine the size of the TURBO one can fit above that engine
There is a lot of debate about how effective the cooling is in an 'open' buggy, since you don't have the 'channeling' of air, as in a Notch, Square or Fastback. Yet there are thousands of buggies running for thousands of kilometers with 'standard' Type 3 engines.
This buggy, one of two used in the James Bond movie 'For Your Eyes Only', also had a Type 3 engine -
But what made me wrote this post, is the pic below that I saw on TheSamba today - what an ingenious way of routing an exhaust! Imagine the size of the TURBO one can fit above that engine