Restoring and building Beetle engines.

My bug came without an engine. Well, there is an engine for the car, the original 1200 unit, but it's totally siezed, and I've left it with Malcs for the moment. In 2006, I bought a Type 4 2 litre engine on Ebay. It needed totally stripped and rebuilt. It also needed an upright fan conversion so that it would fit in the bug. So it's still in my folks' garage. That engine was the original plan for the project. Survey said.... Uh, uh.

The second plan was to get some very talented people - one by the name of Laurie Pettit and one called Jay - at Bugshop in Newcastle) to build a Type 1 1966cc monster for it. They're pretty good at doing this sort of stuff. They've built pretty much everything when it comes to hot VWs.

The first picture here is the Type 4. Malcs and I took the heads off, 3 of the barrels off but stopped there. We couldn't get the last barrel off - it was totally solid - but it could still be rebuilt.