Porsche-Related: Oettinger Okrasa Pushrod Flat 6, WBX-6 WaterBoxer 6 cylinder |
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Porsche-Related: Oettinger Okrasa Pushrod Flat 6, WBX-6 WaterBoxer 6 cylinder |
Brian Mifsud |
Feb 15 2011, 03:16 PM
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Mechanical Engineer Group: Members Posts: 981 Joined: 3-March 03 From: Penngrove, CA Member No.: 384 Region Association: None |
I never thought I'd find it but I figured VW MUST have researched and prototyped a pushrod flat 6 sometime in their history. I've been googling on this subject for sometime, but never quite hit the right combination of keys until this morning (literally after a dream last night). For those of you who know all about this engine, please excuse this if it's redundant, but it's just too tempting to look at this engine as a potential VW swap.. afterall.. it's "Factory".
VW was developing the WasserBoxer 4 cylinder, and had a 6 cylinder variant also in the works. Market Research suggested that it was not worth the tooling/ development for the 6 cylinder, so VW sold the design to Oettinger. The Vanagon experts can chime in but as I understand it, Oettinger built a "Tuner" synchro Vanagon, and offered two versions of the six. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.wbx6.com-384-1297804564.1.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.wbx6.com-384-1297804567.2.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.wbx6.com-384-1297804570.3.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.wbx6.com-384-1297804572.4.png) |
KELTY360 |
Feb 16 2011, 10:53 AM
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914 Neferati Group: Members Posts: 5,031 Joined: 31-December 05 From: Pt. Townsend, WA Member No.: 5,344 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
What a great find. Thanks for sharing this. VW sure dropped the ball in regards to the Vanagon and this engine could have solved a lot of ills, although it sounds like the same abomination of cooling and exhaust systems that plague the wasserboxer4 was carried over into this engine. Oh well, fortunately Subaru stepped in and did proper development on horizontally opposed engines for the masses.
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