Volkswagen Beetle Engine
A vw beetle crate engine.
Volkswagen beetle engine. Gex premium beetle engine stock long block vw beetle 1961 1979. The german engineered volkswagen line of vehicles are some of the most popular small passenger cars and vans in the world. Volkswagen beetle features and specs at car and driver. There are many different companies that manufacture this kind of engines however every engine shares the same characteristics.
The volkswagen beetle officially the volkswagen type 1 informally in german the käfer meaning beetle lady bug coccinellidae in parts of the english speaking world the bug and known by many other nicknames in other languages is a two door rear engine economy car intended for five occupants later beetles were restricted to four people in some countries that was manufactured. All aircooled and most watercooled engines are hot run tested prior to shipping and all stock replacement engines include a 12 month 12 000 mile limited warranty. They are complete engines ready to install once removed from the crate. Engines used in models produced after 2012 retains the same configuration of the first generation vw beetle but most of these engines are i4 16 valve tsi versions.
A vw beetle crate engine is a fully assembled volkswagen engine that is shopped to the installer originally in a crate. The volkswagen air cooled engine is an air cooled boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast iron cylinders cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons magnesium alloy crankcase and forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods. We offer a complete line of rebuilt aircooled and watercooled engines for most volkswagens including beetle bus vanagon rabbit jetta dune buggies baja s sandrails etc. Parts for vw engine air cooled vw vw motor vw bugs volkswagen beetle bugs super beetle type 2 square back type 1 type 3 beetle.
Learn more about price engine type mpg and complete safety and warranty information. Variations of the engine were produced by volkswagen plants worldwide from 1936 until 2006 for use in volkswagen s own vehicles notably the type 1 beetle.