What sort of speed are you getting from a standard VW 1600 aircooled engine in a fug2?

ask bob he has 1600 twin port with ratio rockers and twin dells and slightly ported heads to his own design.
The internals are non standard whatever that means redline 5800 +

It felt indecently quick the other day but then it is rather minimal and low to the ground so difficult to tell just glads it now seems to stop aswell as it goes.
It stuck to road like glue wish mine did under braking :(
or may be not quite as violently
pass the brown paper bag please :(

but are you talking about top speed or acceleration ?

Thanks, i spose i'm asking about both acceleration and top speed really. :huh:

"she fast enough for you old man whats the cargo"

"I have made alot of special modification "

"its a heap of junk"

hmm well that sums it up nicely.

Top speed somewhere around 115-130 i daren't look at the speedo seriously try not go that fast as isn't plesant . It runs out of gearing as stated

Acceleration fast enough for me
less than 10 easily maybe less than 8 never time it.
really depends on how good your gearchanges are
But next time my bro is down I will hook un his gizmo which can do all this stuff and let you know
don't hold your breath

:lol: Nice touch.

Cheers for the info B)

I would have thought with a healthy 1600 you should be looking at sub 10's for 0-60. Top speed will be the same-sh though at about 75 /85 ish

Problem with a standard aircooled lump especially the type 1, unless you have a unlimited supply of crankcases you have the keep the rev's below 4,200.

Never driven a beetle,but I guess you'd run out of gears before you ran out of power. Lots of powered up or in these cases weight lightened cars used to suffer from that years ago. Just wish I was 20yrs younger so I could have had the fast stuff when I was still young enough for it to really,really matter instead of really matter. :D

that's about right bob. been blatting round in my mate's 1200 '64 bug this week and that runs out of gears at about 85 no problem at all B)

top speed is defo over 115 but then

"I have made alot of special modification "

she run a high ratio crown wheel and its a rarer 1500 gearbox so no problemo with 1st :D

and she still spins her wheels in 1st "little bitch" B)

don't agree about 4,800 depends on lots of things imho
re case damage down to crap oil filter mesh thing and crap oil and not changing regularly
good qulaity 20/50 multigrade
and full flow with proper oil filter.
changing oil regularly
remeber this oil works hard cooling as well as lubricating

The case I agree is not as good as a Type 1V but it aint soo bad

So with a standard 1300 box with ratio of 4.375 and rear wheel o/a dia including tyre of 30" will this run out of gears and if so at what point? :huh:

This might help

http://www.f-body.org/gears/

Using the below ratios the above link gives....

30" tyre diameter
Axle ratio 4.375
Redline 4300RPM
First gear 3.80
Second 2.06
Third 1.22
Fourth 0.82

RPM 1st Gear 2nd Gear 3rd Gear 4th Gear 5th Gear 6th Gear
500 3 5 8 12
600 3 6 10 15
700 4 7 12 17
800 4 8 13 20
900 5 9 15 22
1000 5 10 17 25
1100 6 11 18 27
1200 6 12 20 30
1300 7 13 22 32
1400 8 14 23 35
1500 8 15 25 37
1600 9 16 27 40
1700 9 17 28 42
1800 10 18 30 45
1900 10 19 32 47
2000 11 20 33 50
2100 11 21 35 52
2200 12 22 37 55
2300 12 23 38 57
2400 13 24 40 60
2500 13 25 42 62
2600 14 26 43 65
2700 14 27 45 67
2800 15 28 47 70
2900 16 29 48 72
3000 16 30 50 75
3100 17 31 52 77
3200 17 32 54 80
3300 18 33 55 82
3400 18 34 57 85
3500 19 35 59 87
3600 19 36 60 90
3700 20 37 62 92
3800 20 38 64 95
3900 21 39 65 97
4000 21 40 67 100
4100 22 41 69 102
4200 23 42 70 104
4300 23 43 72 107

Marvelous the rail will do over a ton then! B) :ph43r:

Perfick for the stelvio ;)

And a nice cruising speed of 75 B)

cool link B)

i need to work out what a 16 valve will do......... :P

bobacat,

With no counterweights and tiny main bearings held in with even smaller pins. I can assure you 4200 is your limit. Even more so on a standard cam!!!

Change the oil as much as you like, if you regarly rev to over 5k you drastically reduce the life of your case....if the bottom end is standard :(

:unsure:

I rev mine to 5k fairly often, like every gear change :D

My case has held out for 6 years of abuse but low mileage so I guess thats why.
Time for a new engine anyway.

My dad had a 72 bay window,I can remember the day he picked it up. It was brand new orange and white and I was 5yrs old. Not that that really matters,it's just the fact it used to coast until the revs dropped again when it was doing just over 80 obviously don't know whay the revs were but it was govened to that for a reason. He used to drive like that rather a lot thinking about it,bad example to me I'd say. ;)