I do not want to steal all the glory from the article so I will only share a few aspects of the build up. Dean from Hot VWs will be here Feb 6-10 doing the comprehensive story that will be similaraly layed out to the current article on "Forced Power" in the current issues of the mag.
The engine will be a 2270 of medium tune based on my 2270 kit available through the Type 4 store. We expect to make just a tad over 165 HP and a TON of torque with this engine on the dyno(This engine is very close in it's design to Plastermaster's engine that I built in early 2005 and he loves). Choosing this engine combo was easy for me when I was given the parameters of the build by Dean Kirsten. He said that the engine should be easy to build for the regular "wrench" and be affordable and make solid power- that immdeiately was the 2270!
This article will help really dis-spel a lot of myths about the conversion and I have already shared with Dean that we should focus the story a tad more on the conversion aspect than trying to show every tiny part of the blueprint process, simply to bust myths associated with the TIV conversion.
I am very happy that Hot VWs has expressed their interest in the Type IV conversion engine, done my way and I finally feel like I have been effective at spreading the Type 4 "word on the street" after a solid TEN YEARS of pretty much non stop effort. An article the caliber of this has the potential to do more for the Type 4 than anything else because it will reach out to those that do not know that the Type 4 will fit so easily into a Type 1 or early Type II vehicle. Most of these people do not explore things here on the net and some of them think that the Type 4 is only an engine that can be used in a Bus or 914!
Big thanks goes out to the crew at Hot VWs for hearing the cries of the "Type 4 starved" and doing this article. This has been in the works for 6+ months and I have really put a ton of effort into crossing every "T" and dotting every "I".
Don't look for me around here very much for the next 10 days or so and I'm closing the shop and the Type 4 Store ALL next week to concentrate on this article!
BTW- In this article the Cat will be let out of the bag on the new head program that Len and I have been working on. This engine will utilize a set of the heads that will surely change any things in the TIV world and won't cost a dime more than the present options available! They will make building really big engines much cheaper as well! Stay tuned and go grab a copy of the mag for details! More than likely the story will be out in late Spring of this year!
This engine currently does not have a place in life and it'll be going on the auction block AFTER the article is complete.
