1/2 Vw Aircraft Engine Construction And Conversion Plans For Ultralight Or Lsa on 2040-parts.com
Provo, Utah, United States
1/2 VW Engine PlansLooking for a way to mount a 4-stroke engine to your ultralight or light aircraft? The economic solution is to take a full-case Volkswagon engine and modify it from four cylinders to using only the front two! There are various plans available from different sources for converting a full VW engine to a 1/2 VW engine, but they all, including our plans, specify removing the rear 2 cylinders, cutting the crankshaft and cam, and cutting the cylinder heads. There are then a multitude of various other modifications needed to seal up new openings created during the conversion and keep the engine leak free. Our new plans include 14 pages of written instructions with additional pages of figures and drawings. There are even full scale templates for making the proper parts.The detailed plans and drawings which take you all the way through the conversion process to actually starting and running your creation. The plans come spiral bound in an easy to understand format. Keep in mind that our plans call for using the entire case as this is the easier method and in many ways the preferred method for conversion. They do NOT specify how to do the cut-case type conversation. So why should you build a 1/2 VW Engine? Here are few good reasons:
Below is a list of the content provided in our plans:
|
Plans for Sale
- Engine mount(US $600.00)
- Zing ultralight/experimental light sport aircraft construction plans(US $99.00)
- Complete drawings of the aircraft cri-cri(US $20.50)
- Wagabond lsa homebuilt aircraft plans wag-aero(US $95.00)
- Muffler(US $100.00)
- Aw choppy hobbycopter homebuilt ultralight helicopter plans diy construction cd(US $24.00)
One Lap of the Web: a 12-year-old with three Ferraris, burning Porsches and old futuristic cars
Thu, 27 Jun 2013We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Meet a 12-year-old kid who owns three Ferraris.
Kia GT4 Stinger concept car due for Detroit Motor Show 2014
Thu, 02 Jan 2014Kia It's the season for pre-Detroit Motor Show announcements - and today Kia issued this further teaser image of its new low-slung sports car: the 2014 Kia GT4 Stinger concept car. With overtones of the Audi R8 supercar about its visage, the GT4 Stinger is a rear-wheel drive coupe driven by a punchy 315hp turbocharged engine. Kia is a major player in the US, and this GT4 concept car is designed to worm its way into the affections of American enthusiasts.
Four car design schools to compete in Ferrari design contest
Thu, 03 Feb 2005Ferrari, in collaboration with Pininfarina, has laid down a global challenge for students of car design. The project, called 'Ferrari: new concepts for the myth', will see students from four of the world's best automotive design schools compete to create new concepts for future Ferraris. The four schools are: Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Tokyo Communication Arts, Coventry University School of Art and Design, and the European Institute of Design in Turin.