FITTING AN AUTO BOX

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crewat2
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FITTING AN AUTO BOX

Post by crewat2 » 20th April 2006 - 10:03am

can an auto box and flywheel be fitted to an engine that has had a manual gearbox fitted????

is there any/much modification required????

any help would be appreciated
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Daz Max
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auto box

Post by Daz Max » 20th April 2006 - 11:58pm

What are you fitting it to? :?
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Re: auto box

Post by crewat2 » 21st April 2006 - 12:04am

Daz Max wrote:What are you fitting it to? :?
fitting it to a 1300 air cooled beetle engine

its from a type 3/4 variant, will it fit????
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Post by Stuart Sepple » 24th April 2006 - 8:12pm

See "Auto and Manual cars - any engine differences?" in the Virtual Clubhouse section. All the questions were answered there when I asked the same. However I was asking about a Type 3 engine if you are using a Type 1 (ie Beetle engine) their would be additional problems as the Oil filler is in a different place on a Beetle engine

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'Beetle' engines in Type 3s

Post by Editor » 28th April 2006 - 1:19am

Normally Beetle engines have the fan upright, and cannot be fitted in a Type 3 or Type 4 even if you don't mind the fan housing sticking through the floor, due to severe overheating through drawing in pre-heated air to the cooling fan.

The Beetle (Type 1) engine is not all that different from the Type 3 - a 1300 presumably has different bore and stroke though. Are you sure it's 1300cc? Is there an engine number on it?
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