Date:         Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:26:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Ian X <whatsinaname920@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ian X <whatsinaname920@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: [T2] [BP] What is this-Is it a compressor??
Comments: To: Open Wheel Racing <openwhel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <014f01c2df42$31352fc0$c6a05341@volksfix>
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I'd say your a month and a day early with this one!
Lots of wires true, but many are not connected or
grounded. And several if current carrying are
completely unsafe in connection methods. A real Rube
Goldberg. There is no indication that the "cylinders"
are anything but turned slugs of steel. A compressor
like an engine would require and exhaust which is not
visible. Perhaps it is a perpetual motion device that
you drive on a frictionless surface. Kindof surprised
the rest of the group wasn't all over this!

Ian
--- Open Wheel Racing <openwhel@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
> OK, OK, please don't send any one over here wearing
> white suits carrying
> butterfly nets, but..............................and
> I know this is
> wild......................Is it a two cycle engine?
>                Like all
> of us I have been looking at this and tiring to
> decide if its a Chinese mild
> lock or some other warped trick or???????????????
>
>      I don't have the answer, but only more
> questions:
>
> 1) I don't see any valve train!
>
> 2) Where is the exhaust system?
>
> 3) All of that electrical system, and no spark or
> glow plugs.
>
> 4) Where is the fuel system?
>
> 5) If there is combustion, where is the cooling
> system?
>
>
>     Look closely at the base of #2 (on a real
> Volkswagen engine anyway), is
> that an exhaust "gap" at the base facing toward the
> rear? About 150 years
> ago I used to fly model air planes, and the engines
> were two cycle, with
> glow plugs, and the exhaust would exit at the base
> of the cylinder. This
> would explain some of it, but not all.
>
> Well call me crazy, but at least I'''mm  nooot as
> think as yor durnk...
>
> Please let me know where to pick up the prize money
> if I'm right.
>
> Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!
>
> Howard
>
> > Since it's Friday, I thought I'd challenge the
> list geniuses to try to
> > figure this picture out. It looks to me like a
> homemade compressor, but
> why
> > would it be in a Bug? The more I look at it, the
> more confused I get. Look
> > at the electrical apparatus in there. It looks
> like too much work to be a
> > dummy, lots of wires etc.
> >
> >
>
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/pix/117263.jpg
> >


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