Dick,
VW's had the same problem at Boneville that all air-cooled cylinder head
engines have. They can't keep the exhaust valve cool enough. That limits
the power in an endurance motor to about 1 HP per cubic inch or less.
Bryan
Dick J wrote:
> I guess I'm going through a retro-time regression or something and recently
>started playing with an old VW motor. Remember how VWs and dune buggies where
>everywhere in the late 60s and early 70s? Did any of those things show up on
>the salt or lakes back then? Anybody got any LSR VW stories?
> Dick J
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