1985 VW T3 tintop with Chevy power. The Green B*****d

 this is the beast, the Green B****** a 1985 VW T3 or Vanagon as they are called here in Canada.  It was purchased with a Chevy motor from a 1979 Citation, otherwise known as an "Iron Duke".  Anyway, it had been overheated badly at least 13 times and had a rear main so bad that it leaked a gallon of oil over 2 days of driving. No exaggeration!  It cost more in oil than gas to run it! I pulled the head and found the bores absolutely mirror polished and with the head failing a pressure test I decided to fit a replacement engine. These motors can only be bored .30 thou over and no replacement heads available so why not...  



So I eventually found a 1991 Chevy S10 pick up 400KM away with an Iron Duke motor in an appalling 2WD truck with an absolutely shot frame and fred flintstone floors.  A somewhat scary test drive and a healthy compression test later I handed over 600 Canadian Pesos for the Blue B**** and loaded it up on a U Haul trailer.  Interestingly enough the trailer had just come one way from Florida...   Here we are at the local gas station filling up the tow truck, the Cummins powered animal that I'd borrowed for the hauling expedition. 550Lb of torque, manual, 4WD and a straight thru exhaust, yes please! 



Then to pull the motor, and wiring harness, as we're going from Carb to TBI. 



Done!

Sold the manual gearbox for $200 and scrapped the rest for $100. Result!

Got the motor 'in' the bus! haha.  (Also got donated a set of snows but I doubt I'll use them, these are absolutely garbage in the white stuff.)


So, we have a VW Gearbox and a Chevy motor. Let's start to marry these up. The previous owner had originally done the Citation motor swap and pressed together a Chevy flywheel centre into a Vanagon outer, leaving us with this:



I know this Flywheel did over 20k but I can't help but feel it's a little too homebrew. I've priced a one piece flywheel for $500 US... Let's see.  I also need an adaptor machined up to take the pilot bearing into the centre of the flywheel or crank end, I can't remember how far the input shaft protruded on the old set up.

The previous motor used the Small Block Chevy bolt pattern and the new motor the V6 pattern, even though it is a 4 banger. A screw up on my part but I have found an adaptor that goes between a SBC pattern and a V6 pattern that I will cut and weld into this:


And that is where I'm at so far!  Watch this space!