>I was thinking about putting a Porsche-6 and maybe trans in my Micro. >I know that it can be done in a vanagon, but I'm not sure if it would >work in my bus. Any information or advice would be greatly >appreciated! There are several options available to you here. If you put a relatively low power engine (150bhp) you can get away with a rebuilt and modified (strengthened) trans. Check out some of the ads in VWtrends for drag trans. This option has some drawbacks in that you would firstly have to fit a straightaxle kit to get rid of the r/boxes (you could keep them but it would be crazy). Fortunately the Porsche engine bolts straight onto a bus trans so that's cool, unfortunately the flywheel on a Porsche engine has no starter teeth on it! the teeth are on the clutch. Solution is to get a Type IV flywheel and have the 5 bolt holes bored into the centre boss using the porsche flywheel as a jig. Then you can mount the VW flywheel on the Porsche motor. It is advisable to then go for a late bus (aircooled) 2.0 litre trans with the high ratios. This trans can suposidely take 300bhp without modification and no drag starts, please ;) To fit the 2.0 litre IRS trans you have to do an IRS conversion on the drive shafts etc. There are two ways to do this. One is to fit a Bus Boys IRS conversion kit. The other is to cut the torsion tube from a '72-79 bus, cut out your torsion tube and weld in the late bus one. This gives you a complete ->'79 rear trans. You will have to then make a support to hold the pulley end of the Porsche motor and hang this support of the end of the chassis rails. easy, ;) Lee. '64 samba '67/50 single cab
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