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Top conter. if you ara adapting the 914 angina to a pre '67 transaxle, you will probably want to conaert to a 12V starter. There is approximately a >& in. diHerenca in diameters betwoan tha 6 and 12V flywheels (12V is larger). Bottom, to łit a 12V llywheal into the 6V ballhousing, a smali amount ot materiał will have to be ground away above the lowar bolt

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ago. Since the Porsche*s flywheel was the same diameter and had the sanie number of ring gear teeth as the 12V VW’s, he figured he could use the Porsche clutch asscmbly with the VW starter and throwout bearing and fork. But. the problem was that the Porsche flywheel fit about 1/2-in. deeper into the bellhousing than the VW unit. Ed madę the Iwo fit together by grinding off a portion of the bolt bosses on the bottom of the VW bellhousing. and by sparing the starter out ahout 1/2-in. froni its niounting location. The combi-nation worked this way-in fact he put several thousand crosscountry miles on the trike, but it had one deficiency in the clutch linkage departnient. Since the clutch sal 1/2-in. further forward on the input shaft, there was very little room left for throwout bearing movement or adjustment which turned out to be a constanl problem.

The rest of the set-up worked so well, though, that he decided to use it again on his latest thrce-wheel project. This time he figured he would use a complete VW flywheel/clutch assembly by having the center (gland nut attach-ment) machined out of the VW wheel and rcplaccd by one from the Porsche flywheel (5 bolt attachment). This modification would have requircd the skill of a competent machinę shop, but then he discovered an even simpler solu-tion.

Kennedy Engincered Products (KEP) of Pacoima, Calif., makers of adapter kits to mount all sorls of engines to VW transaxles. offer a ready-made flywheel to fit the 914 Porsche/411 Volkswagcn engine to VW Bug transaxles. The kit includes a flywheel (available in either 6 or 12V size). attaching bolts, and the proper pilot bushing. If you have a ’67 or later transaxlc. all you need to do is bolt the components together. If you have a prc-’67 trans and want to re-tain the 6V system, you will have to adapt a 6V generator to the engine. (It should also be mentioned that the in-stallation of this engine in a Bug would probably necessitate cutting out the rcar body pan for fan/shrouding clearance; its use in Baja Bugs or sand buggies would be no problem).

If you wish to use a swing axle trans (as Ed did), and retain the preferahle I2V electrical system (as Ed did), you could hunt down a ’67 transaxle (diffi-cult) or convert a more-plentiful earlier

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