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 > |
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