Rat & Retro Style Mk1's...

[Peter Jones]

Wonder if they considered swapping the cams over and reversing the flow?

(Just thought I'd screw with your head some more )

Pete

[Oneofthegreats]

I don't how imaginative it would be Pete.

Looks like a stock Polo Exhaust manifold which has a clearanced sump to run the pipe under.

Would actually be easier than a stock 1.8L exhaust to make I reckon. Less bends & angles.


Wheels have a very RS Escort feel about them too!

love the old esky's. both the driving & cooling ones

[Oneofthegreats]

Wonder if they considered swapping the cams over and reversing the flow?

(Just thought I'd screw with your head some more )

Pete

Its been done before Pete, but on the old Holden V8!

Duggan's in Reservoir manaufactured their own Cyl. heads on these engines many many moons ago to run carbs on the outside & the pipes in the valley

It would be more than just swapping cams though. Different Valves, ports, the works.

[Preen59]

Wonder if they considered swapping the cams over and reversing the flow?

(Just thought I'd screw with your head some more )

Pete

Not a bad idea really. It would give it more pre compression and definitely improve the spark density atomisation at lower RPM...

[Peter Jones]

It would be more than just swapping cams though. Different Valves, ports, the works.

Yep, copy that, just one step at a time for Jarred

I was at Pedders the other day and they had a Corvair up on the hoist. They're infamous for being one of the very few motors that rotates counter clockwise.

They were a popular engine conversion for beetles (being an aircooled flat 6) and you could buy a cam to make them rotate the other way. (or you could just flip the diff.)

Crazy fan belt setup too.

[Oneofthegreats]

Yep, copy that, just one step at a time for Jarred

I was at Pedders the other day and they had a Corvair up on the hoist. They're infamous for being one of the very few motors that rotates counter clockwise.

They were a popular engine conversion for beetles (being an aircooled flat 6) and you could buy a cam to make them rotate the other way. (or you could just flip the diff.)

Crazy fan belt setup too.

I've heard of flipping Diff's before but it doesn't make sense. Is there enough room in the casing to do so?

Then you have 4 or 5 reverse gears & one forward gear

[Preen59]

No. Because the engine rotates the opposite way, so does the gear box. By turning the diff over you reverse the direction of the tyres, so it turns the tyres the right way.

[Peter Jones]

I've heard of flipping Diff's before but it doesn't make sense. Is there enough room in the casing to do so?

Then you have 4 or 5 reverse gears & one forward gear

Yep there's room (not sure about all the boxes of course) and there's a few scenarios.

• To install a backwards rotating Corvair motor in a beetle.
• To remove the reduction boxes in a splitty or a country buggy.
• To run a box back to front and upside down in an open wheeler.
• or just to surprise the crap out of Golf Man

Pete

[Oneofthegreats]

Yep there's room (not sure about all the boxes of course) and there's a few scenarios.

• To install a backwards rotating Corvair motor in a beetle.
• To remove the reduction boxes in a splitty or a country buggy.
• To run a box back to front and upside down in an open wheeler.
• or just to surprise the crap of of Golf Man

Pete

Nice. Got a school lesson today!

Thanks Pete

[Stephy]

I just love this anyways...

[Jace]

Steph you're dirtying up the MK1 section... with a filthy MK3! EWWWW!

Oi Tim those wheels do look pretty RS2000 hey. I dunno what they are.
I'll go out on a limb and say they're some weird model Gotti.

[Jarred]

Seriously.

I'm going to have to re-read all that and research it more when I'm not drunk.

[GoLfMan]

awesome info Pete and Tim cheers!!!

[Jace]

YouTube - SCI Performance Bali Green 1.8T MK1 Rabbit

[Stephy]

Steph you're dirtying up the MK1 section... with a filthy MK3! EWWWW!

I know... I know... But it's so lovely... There isn't a Rat MK3 thread...

The interior on that little green MK1 is just porn!