Re: 2ltr cu Aircooled dizzy
Posted: 30 Sep 2010, 15:53
You may well get away with it on the Aircooled but the 009 is too maxed out for a stock engine. To be any real use you need the works, ie a rebuilt and performance tuned engine to match it. I've seen engines ruined in no time by 009s set up wrong. I've owned VWs for 25 years and built many performance engines and on a stock, you stick with stock, on a performance engine you can afford to diversify with power curves and wotnot.
What saddens me is that in all that time this mad myth that fitting a 009 somehow supercharges performance, persists. Whether its the close proximity to 007 (as in Bond) or because its primarily a custom/performance part I don't know, but I've run with and without and I'd opt to have a stock one rebuilt than waste time with one of those. I have used 009s but ONLY on highly tuned engines built from the bottom up. Those that have done similar will agree with me on this I'm sure.
The short answer is yes you can get a 009 to work (and JK see it as an ideal replacement for reasons beyond my grasp) but its your own funeral if you find your engine doesn't last too long or develops secondary problems. These engines are not cheap to replace or as easy to work on as bug engines. Most are also grossly underpowered considering the weight they're having to move and the 009 has a different curve and tends to make the engine run hotter than it should do. As I say, the only engines I've ever fitted them to are ones with performance cams and strengthened valve-train components where you can toy with lift ratios and the like. Its completely wasted on a stock and all wrong. It doesn't match.
Above is good advice but no one has to listen
What saddens me is that in all that time this mad myth that fitting a 009 somehow supercharges performance, persists. Whether its the close proximity to 007 (as in Bond) or because its primarily a custom/performance part I don't know, but I've run with and without and I'd opt to have a stock one rebuilt than waste time with one of those. I have used 009s but ONLY on highly tuned engines built from the bottom up. Those that have done similar will agree with me on this I'm sure.
The short answer is yes you can get a 009 to work (and JK see it as an ideal replacement for reasons beyond my grasp) but its your own funeral if you find your engine doesn't last too long or develops secondary problems. These engines are not cheap to replace or as easy to work on as bug engines. Most are also grossly underpowered considering the weight they're having to move and the 009 has a different curve and tends to make the engine run hotter than it should do. As I say, the only engines I've ever fitted them to are ones with performance cams and strengthened valve-train components where you can toy with lift ratios and the like. Its completely wasted on a stock and all wrong. It doesn't match.
Above is good advice but no one has to listen