flat 8 VW engine

[Hugo a Gogo]

anyone able to read Portuguese?
http://mestrejoca.blogspot.de/2009/03/as-entranhas...
http://www.interney.net/blogs/saloma/2009/01/14/sa...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXKcpbFF7WI engine 1st test run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zto2UDCUyoY car's 1st track test

[anonymous-user]

twice as much trouble as a normal clunky old air cooled VW engine ??

[Mr2Mike]

Max_Torque said:

twice as much trouble as a normal clunky old air cooled VW engine ??

Rather more than twice I suspect! It does sound very nice though.

[davepoth]

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl...

So it sounds like this was a "VW do Brasil" project to make an engine suitable for the SP1/2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_SP2