Interesting heads

gort · Post by **gort** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:27 pm

Came across these heads the guy says they from a beetle with what sounds like safari front windows . Anyone ever seen something like this ?

Post by **IMPI** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:04 pm

I think citroen 1220

gort · Post by **gort** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:45 pm

I think you are right Impi .i'm dying to see the beetle apparently the owner shows it quite a lot. Would love to hear if he'll tell me it's an imported vw engine like he told the head specialist.

Piet · Post by **Piet** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:36 pm

I would like to know if anybody managed to replace a beetle's heads with those from

Post by **retrovan** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 12:52 am

overhead cams, How would you drive them, only with a 90deg, belt system

Not sure if it would be worth all that effort.

Herman

gort · Post by **gort** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 4:38 pm

Easily like this

Piet · Post by **Piet** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:16 pm

The diagram shows the Citroen engine, which I understand was a small capacity high revving engine. It shows how one would drive the camshafts, but what about differences in dimentions (bore, distance between pistons etc.)?

Aircooled VW South Africa

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