Want some recommendations for an engine to put into my sisters beetle. She's quite into the idea of changing it to something a bit more sporty (doesn't want to upgrade the standard engine), but I don't really want to see her putting a porsche engine in it (if I said oversteer to her, her eyes would glaze over).

I was thinking maybe a 1.8 of some sort. Maybe something that can use bike carbs as throttle bodies to give it some noise, keep it fairly cheap.

Scooby boxer engine?

911 turbo?

new beetle or old beetle?

Read somewhere that some people use Golf engines, can't remember which engine though, but one of them fits the beetle box.

it'll be for the old model

I'd suggest nothing more powerful than the standard engine until the dire brakes and handling of the standard car have been fixed (as well as they can be).

try this ....http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=233443

I run a nice 1641 with twin 36 dells, that's in a van it's fine, I wouldn't want to go any faster

What age is the beetle?

my pal got his standard 1300 rebored to 1600 ish

it was fast enough.


or a subaru flat 4, ive seen that done. it takes quite bit of effort tho.

IC

1776cc VW engine, 044 heads, C35 cam, dual twin 40s or throttle bodies, fully balanced and a lightened flywheel is a great combination, powerful enough, but still reliable. With a decent exhaust, will be a big difference to what she has now. Built a few of these over the years, and they always turned out well.

Cheers

Adrian