On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Chris Schalick wrote: > > > a la David Schwarze: .... > Would I need, say, a garage full of large red tool chests and heavy > equipment to pull this off or is this something that is more or less part > replacement? > > I've never dropped the engine in a bus (or actually anything larger than my > lawn mower), so I am speaking from my wealth of inexperience here, but I > thought there was some machining involved in the big bore beefups. > I believe you can use up to 88 mm pistons on a stock case without machining. I forget the dimensions, I know the 87 mm slipins give you a 1641 cc engine. Buy John Muirs book. Now. There is also a book called "How to Hot-Rod a VW engine" or some such thing. Others on the list are so together they can probably supply you the ISBN number... Doug Shapter dps@kafka.atinc.com finger dps@kryten.atinc.com for PGP public key
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