söndag 20 december 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 174A, 1942-1943

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The Type 174A engine. From this angle it looks like a pretty normal kdf engine with dual carbs. The last in the row of Sturmboot pr...
söndag 13 december 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 174, 1942-1943

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This is the only type 174 picture I have seen. Not a 100% normal kdf-engine as you can see. As said before the type 174/174A is so...
torsdag 3 december 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 170, part 2

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The first version of the type 170 featured a top mounted Roots supercharger, the photo was taken in March 1943. This blogpost was s...
söndag 29 november 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 171, 1942-1943

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A prototype of the type 171 Sturmboot engine dated 1943 Next in line for the air-cooled Sturmboot project was project 171. This t...
måndag 23 november 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 170, 1942-1943

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Basic data for the type 170 engine dated 1943. As can be seen the original compression ratio of 5.8 was retained despite the use of a ...
fredag 20 november 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Type 115, 1939

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Cut-away of the cylinder and head of the type 115. As can be seen it has a single overhead camshaft with a 74 mm bore and 40 mm intak...
måndag 16 november 2015

The origin of VW tuning – Introduction

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  Together for the first time in a long-long while! In 2015 the Berlin-Rome car IIIA0701 (ex. Mathé) was finally re-united with its origi...