Talk:Volkswagen air-cooled engine

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Moved from Volkswagen Beetle:
 * "==Alternative uses for VW Beetle engines==
 * "Volkswagen motor cut 1945.JPG
 * "The air-cooled 4-cylinder horizontally opposed cylinder (a flat four) has been used for many other purposes.

ATM, I just don't have the patience to merge it.... TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  07:02, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Certified aircraft engines has been made by Limbach since 1970, and by Sauer since 1987. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SvingenB (talk • contribs) 08:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)  Reference to EASA type certification and for Limbach engines added. Sauer are certified by LBA not EASA.
 * From the 1960s, it has been used as an experimental aircraft engine. Companies still produce aero engines derived from the Beetle engine: Limbach, Hapi, Revmasterl and others.
 * Owner-built Kitplanes, notably the Volksplane, are specifically designed to use these engines.
 * Until 2001, Beetle engines were also used to run several of the ski lifts at the Thredbo resort in New South Wales.
 * In remote Australian opal mining communities, VW motors are used as air compressors for air-powered equipment. Two cylinders are used as a motor while the others are modified to produce a flow of compressed air. Dunn-Right, Incorporated of Anderson, South Carolina offers a similar conversion kit.
 * Volkswagen engines have also been used in Australia for fire fighting. Country Fire Authority have often used the engines to drive water pumps, colloquially known as 'Godiva pumps' after the pump the engine drives.
 * In Europe, Beetle engines were used to power mobile water-pumps used by the fire brigade. These pumps have been used from the 1950s till the present day.
 * A Beetle engine drives the rotating Mercedes-Benz emblem on the top of the Europa-Center in Berlin.
 * The Zamboni HD ice resurfacer is powered by an LPG-powered Beetle engine.
 * In 1967–68, the portable sawmill maker Mighty Mite of Portland, Oregon used VW engines to power the circular saw blades of light sawmills. Later, as the US market for VW Beetles declined, the sawmill was modified for other power.
 * The Amazonas, a Brazilian-built motorcycle manufactured from 1978 to 1990, uses a modified 1600 cc Beetle engine and gearbox. With a dry weight that could top 350 kg, the Amazonas was billed as the world's heaviest production motorcycle. The VW transmission's reverse gear, rare in a two-wheeled vehicle, was a useful feature in such a heavy motorcycle. There was later the Kahena with similar construction.
 * Many "trikes" have been built with Beetle engines.
 * Dune buggies and sandrails are commonly constructed with Beetle engines and other Beetle components.
 * In the United States, many farmers still use the AGCO Corporation "SPRA-COUPE" for fertilizer and pesticide spraying, which were manufactured from the 1960s until the mid 1990s, and due to the good availability of parts are still supported."


 * Since almost all of it is unsourced I wouldn't suggest adding it to the article anyway. Most of it looks like WP:OR. - Ahunt (talk) 12:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Pre-war Engines
Were there pre-war 985cc 25ps engines made exist? Rjluna2 (talk) 21:07, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Name/Type of the engine(s)?
The air-cooled Volkswagen engines had official names/types: For example, the 1192 cm³ engine is called Typ 122 and the 1584 cm³ engine is called Typ 126. However, in the article, the engines are simply named after their displacement. --Jojhnjoy (talk) 18:51, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

petrol or diesel?
it's not obvious for non engineers 213.31.58.108 (talk) 11:32, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks - - Ahunt (talk) 12:27, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Tons of white space
Recent edits adding "clear" tags have produced a lot of white space into the article which looks really bad. I think we either need to ditch at least some of the surplus of info boxes or get more text to fill the article out. Thoughts? - Ahunt (talk) 12:09, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Unsourced additions
Aside from the aviation section this article is a now a mass of unsourced text. It needs properly sourcing or it needs stubbing to the sourced text. If no one adds the sources I am happy to stub it. Discussion? - Ahunt (talk) 02:06, 29 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Okay, lacking any objections or, indeed discussion, for the past week I have removed the unsourced text. This can be re-instated at any time as long as proper refs are provided. - Ahunt (talk) 20:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hum. This wasn't great. A useful, factual page has had almost all the useful information removed and has now become a large list of aircraft, a secondary use of the page. This would benefit from being reverted. It is less informative now than it was 15 years ago! 83.216.146.123 (talk) 17:50, 21 November 2023 (UTC)