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Just looking on YouTube at trabant stuff when I came across this. Mk2 Golf with a two-stroke 600cc Trabant lump in it. Now that makes a change from a VR6 lump  Anyone out there come across strange engine swop's. |
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tome30
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Red golf with white lump looks awesome! I wonder what the performance is like with a two stroke?
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Red golf with white lump looks awesome! I wonder what the performance is like with a two stroke? With 26hp not amazing, although I my Trabant is quite quick off The line. But it is a lot smaller. |
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1989 Trabant 601
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one of the commenters: "Revenge for the Trabant 1.1 " more sounds like it needs shorter gearing to match those massive wheels, i love it. |
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Trabant engine is funny but a terrible idea really!
I can't find the pictures no wbut i came across a TR7 for sale here in Ireland with a 1600, non turbo opel diesel engine fitted.
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conrad
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ah, yes, forgot i had those from the for sale thread i found. I was actually sent others also by someone who viewed it though, they would have been better. Will keep trying
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I usually just think "meh" seeing golfs, but the one TerraRoot posted made me ooof quite a bit! Very Very cool!
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It's overwheeled, and probably has the same performance as a MK3 GTi Still interesting though. Would be better with some nice small banded steels. |
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Have seen a mk1 capri with the 1.8td escort van engine in it !!
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I usually just think "meh" seeing golfs, but the one TerraRoot posted made me ooof quite a bit! Very Very cool! The one TerraRoot posted is the same one on YouTube that I posted. And looking at the pic's that TerraRoot posted I can see that they have put The seat's and dashboard from a Trabant in it to. |
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Have seen a mk1 capri with the 1.8td escort van engine in it !! you sure it wasn't a sierra td engine? I've encountered two mk3 capris with sierra td engines. One in the Uk and one was for sale here in Ireland |
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Have seen a mk1 capri with the 1.8td escort van engine in it !! you sure it wasn't a sierra td engine? I've encountered two mk3 capris with sierra td engines. One in the Uk and one was for sale here in Ireland There was a Mk1 Capri on EBay last year with a 1.8td lump,it was yellow. |
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You really have to forget the whole idea of whether the Trabant lump is a backward step or not, to consider that it is or to suggest other engines that could have been fitted completely misses the point.
The car is an utterly fantastic exercise in function over design, simplicity over complication, minimal over maximum........
I don't think there is another "more suitable" engine that would have sat in that bay so cleanly( totally at odds with what it emits) a dashboard that couldnt have looked any more right in the car or seats that just need to be sat on. I'm not sure if there are cleaner looking cars out there but I bet there arent any that make the minimal look so damn right.
You cannot take the engine out of context, it IS what the car is about.
Brilliant IMHO.
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Last Edit: May 7, 2011 16:07:54 GMT by Rob M
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id rather see something meaty in a trabant lol  |
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I love it mostly because i love my two-strokes, but also because it's different, if some one put a 26bhp four-stroke in there i'd be very puzzled, but a two stoke i can under stand. besides some reed vavles and expansion pipes along with a few files would have that engine up to 60bhp in an afternoon.
It could have been done better with a wartburg engine.
Notice the interior? flat floor i think is from the trabant.
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I love it mostly because I love my two-strokes, but also because it's different, if some one put a 26bhp four-stroke in there i'd be very puzzled, but a two stoke I can under stand. besides some reed vavles and expansion pipes along with a few files would have that engine up to 60bhp in an afternoon. It could have been done better with a wartburg engine. Notice the interior? flat floor I think is from the trabant. Don't fancy a trip to Hungary do you? I would love to have 60hp in done in one afternoon. |
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1989 Trabant 601
2009 Jaguar XF
2012 Toyota AYGO
2018 Scomadi TL
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Copeys Capri fits well in this 'well out side the box' requirement.
Golf is fantastic. Zeb is right - it is the point of the car to be minimal, not to focus on the engine - that's why the doorcards are vacuum formed plastic.
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Don't fancy a trip to Hungary do you? I would love to have 60hp in done in one afternoon. Well maybe not an afternoon... but still I'm sure it's doable, apart from the blasted disc valves being buried by the crank. up the port timings, angle the tansfers (theres only two, correct?) directly away from the exhaust port, fit two ktm300 spannies and at least a 30mm carb. seen this? www.ldm-tuning.de/en/trabant_601/tuning_parts/engine/all.htm |
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