Fire and ice . . . that's what you get when you take the cool looks of
the Volkswagen Beetle, Bus, Karmann Ghia, Thing, Squareback or Fastback
and unleash the hot performance of the air-cooled VW engine. How to hot
Rod Volkswagen Engines gives the real skinny for breathing-on,
blueprinting and bulletproofing your air-cooled Vee-dub.
Street, custom, kit car, off-road, or full-race, this book gives you all
the air-cooled engine-building basics to find and put to the pavement
hidden horsepower. Includes tips on carburetion, ignition and exhaust
tuning, case beefing, cylinder-head flow work, camshaft selection,
lubrication and cooling upgrades, 6-to 12-volt conversions and much
more. Plus there's a natty 6-page history of the origins of the first
air-cooled VW engines.
Go ahead. You deserve it! Double or triple the output of your air-cooled
Volkswagen. Or add 10-15 horsepower with easy bolt-on mods. Mild or
wild, do it the right way--with this book. More than 300 photos,
drawings and charts to guide you through your VW's innards. And don't
look back.