The Destruction and Recreation of Jackman's 1964 Volkswagen Beetle

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dual Core Volkswagen

For three days, I had a Volkswagen with two power plants, one in back and one in front. Of course, all good things must come to an end as they say...

Some time ago (in March), I had come across a store of Volkswagen cores. See Treasure!. Whether I had mentioned it or not, I had sent both cores into a local VW shop, Air-Cooled Engineering, to have them prepared for rebuilding. I ended up selling one to the shop and the other I was able to finally pick up on Thursday.

The shop gave me everything I need for a 1776cc motor including rebuilt heads, new pistons and cylinders, a cleaned and milled block, bearings, a ground crankshaft, a camshaft, and the other miscellaneous parts.

In the coming days, you'll be seeing some more pictures of my progress. It'll be fun!

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