That's exactly it. The cooler lived in a small house, very near the "big" house. Much as we may wish this was the set-up we used for our kids, it's more commonly where the dog lives. Arf! On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 06:33 AM, Dana Morphew wrote: > Hmmm...wonder why the name was applied to the dualport. Is it because > the cooler was "in the doghouse", so to speak, because of its separate > quarters? The bulge in the shroud front doesn't make it look anymore > like a doghouse than the singleport shroud does. > > -Dana- > >> The doghouse erefers to the later type Bug oilcooler, which lived in >> a small housing on the front-left of the dual-port 1.6 engine's >> fanshroud. Earlier (single-port) engines had the cooler within the >> shroud and were NOT doghouse). Single-port engines can be retrofitted >> with doghouse cooler and shroud, which I did for my 1.6. >> -- >> Andrew Grebneff >> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand >> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> >> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut > |
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