Strange VW motor and rim

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Strange VW motor and rim

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A fellow I met the other day showed me this motor he had just acquired.

It seems a very strange variety with those different pulleys and especially that intake manifold. There must have been some different cooling arrangement to accommodate for that. Its oil cooler had also been blocked off.


Does anyone know what this comes from?

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He also gave me these items. :hangloose: Pretty grateful for the Split badge but what is this rim from?

It's marked 4j x 15.

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Nice score on the badge :hangloose:
Rim looks like a type 3 or Ghia ?
Perhaps they used that motor to run a pump or other type of machine ?
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the rim is from a Karmann ghia '66 !! just what i have been looking for Sean !! :hangloose:
Fig has one for me and with your one a can complete the set of 5 !!! :D
will pm you shortly !! :D
thanks Paul !
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isnt it a T3 engine?
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If my eyes do not deceive me, that would be a aircraft VW motor, the drive is off the front and the oil pump off the crank shaft. (I think)

The carb is horizontal so that it can operate at the different inclinations.

Also does not need a fly wheel, as the prop has plenty mass to smooth out the motor.

Nice find........

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splitbusahollic wrote:the rim is from a Karmann ghia '66 !! just what i have been looking for Sean !! :hangloose:
Fig has one for me and with your one a can complete the set of 5 !!! :D
will pm you shortly !! :D
thanks Paul !

OOOOOOO, this is a rare item is it? :twisted: :twisted:

I really, really need one of these. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

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I see I missed your call, was stuck on the landline talking to Paul. Will chat later.

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sean wrote:
splitbusahollic wrote:the rim is from a Karmann ghia '66 !! just what i have been looking for Sean !! :hangloose:
Fig has one for me and with your one a can complete the set of 5 !!! :D
will pm you shortly !! :D
thanks Paul !
OOOOOOO, this is a rare item is it? :twisted: :twisted:
I really, really need one of these. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ...
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OOOooh~ I can hear the green panels piling up in exchange for that RARE WHEEL....... :shock: :shock:

And then I sit with the WIDE versions of that same wheel, two of them nogall........... :D :D

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