Our splitty's engine has died

Mr Diva was driving to work in the splitty as per usual this morning and the engine seized whilst he was on the A1:cry: , had it towed to our local dub garage and they just called to tell us that it's proper fooked :( 1 day before the club meet AND BigBang FFS

how soon do you want an engine? My mate has a couple ready to run right now and doubt he would want massive amounts for them if you say your a friend of mine. Would get you sorted?

Well, the long block is what we need, but we might as well get a new engine we need one a.s.a.p. really, and it all depends on how much £££ he wants for one. Is there any chance of contacting your mate for us and finding out how much he wants please?

The engine was transplanted from our 1959 beetle and it was a 1600 twin carb, but a standard engine would do. Still don't quite know exactly what happened to it (it had oil in it)... somehow it just overheated and melted

im busy as hell tonight but want to help you out so i'll give you his number.

07921579948

Tell him your from the fendubbers forum and tom hudson told you to ring him . Hes got long blocks, whole engines and quite a few other bits.. basically hes got bloody EVERYTHING lol.

Oh his names Ben by the way. Lives in manea.

oh and as regards to it burning out. Were the carbs set up properly? If they were running even a little bit lean it has a terrible affect on aircooled engines and would make it seize up easily...

Overheated on number 3 cylinder?

What type of cooling shroud is it running, dog house or non?

the carbs were set up when it came across from the beetle, but it used to occasionally "backfire" when you turned the engine off, but it came out of the exhaust so we weren't too bothered by it. It had a mocal cooling fan, but we'd been told that it was running a bit hot... maybe it didn't have enough oil in it? Garage have not spent too much time finding the exact reason for it going wrong, as they really didn't have the time to have our splitty in their garage today. Will call your mate later on. Thanks for helping

hey, did you have any luck getting sorted out?

If you have no luck with Ben i have a mint 1600 twin porter, up and running, still in car . Its squeaky clean having had alot of new parts and the tinware has been blasted and painted

Tiz wrote:

hey, did you have any luck getting sorted out?

Yeah, sorry forgot to post on here - he has an engine coming in next week that might be suitable - gonna give him a ring Tues/Wed and have another chat with him.

Old B'stard wrote:

If you have no luck with Ben i have a mint 1600 twin porter, up and running, still in car . Its squeaky clean having had alot of new parts and the tinware has been blasted and painted

ooh, how much would you want for it?

Engine now rebuilt and running lovely

Splitty up for sale :|