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How hard would this be? I assume fairly easy...but you never know.

Well, it's been done about a bazillion times, so I'd have to say pretty easy. One of the most fun cars I ever owned was a VW-engined Devin roadster. Not a lot of power but only about 1500 lbs., so you could really toss the car around.

I used a turbo-Corvair engine/xmission in a VW beach buggy.

I hard mounted the engine to the end of the VW engine fork with 1-1/2" angle iron at the belll housing and welded a smaller angle for the front transmission mount. Worked great.

Find a bug with the IRS and you're 1/2 way done. Take the body off and build the space frame around what's left. Then cut away any VW floor pan that sticks out beyond the chassis.

Lot's of traction with that lump hanging off the rear. And the steering got real "light" when accelerating.

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I'm not anti VW but well past it's day in anyway you can mention.

My biggest concern is that I've seen reasonably clever blokes throw ten of thousands of dollars at them over the years and it never seems to change a guaranteed short life with a lot of breakdowns and constant tuning inbetween.

The 550 Porsche kit car people (and the original) use them and when you get tired of the VW you can stick a Subaru in there. They are relatively cheap.

I thought that one that was a front engined Locost using a VW and turned transaxle was pretty cool. Reminded me of the Midget racers that used that setup for a while (of course I think they just use a in and out box, not a transmission per se in that application), jugs of the boxer hanging in the breeze and carbs on both sides pretty cool and it fits the whole Non traditional of this area of the site too!

Forgive me for not remembering the members name that did that car, sure was a nice piece of work though and pretty light too I'd imagine...

Cwhite is the users name, had to go look it up, its a choice piece of work!

Regards,

RevD

Take a look here: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=13200&p=134282&hilit=beetle+motor#p134282

Here's a lil something similar i tried a years ago.
I used the std beetle chassis pan, with 2mm floor plates shaped to the 7 shape. I tirned out to ne roughlu 10" longer than a regular locost.

Sadly when my parents moved house, i had to sell because i had no more access to a garage.

The chap who bought it still has it sitting as i sold it to him in his garage