1200, 1300, or 1500?

Bump,  find myself looking at cars that need a motor

Will this motor fit in a bus?

Yes...but! It depends on the bus!

Split, absolutely.

Early bay (68-71) will require the rear hanger, which an H block shouldn't have the three holes for the mustache bar. The mustache bar is required to hold up the back of the engine/trans combo since the trans is not self-supporting. If it has the castings, you can carefully drill and tap the holes, but you can get a bracket that replaces the oil pump studs and makes them longer to allow for the thickness of the bracket. Then you can bolt up the mustache bar.

The 72 up Bays have a self supporting trans, which means you could get away with bolting it up. The problem will be that these were designed for a type IV motor and have a larger hole. You can get the Creative Car Craft tin (google it) to put a beetle motor in a late bus. You should probably put a mustache type bar across the back to help hold the engine up, but its been debated. Ask Zen- he has done this on a later bus.


this:

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC-C10-5036

or

this:
http://www.creativecarcraft.com/notforbug.htm

Maybe put it in a stranded motorist bus

Homer didn't get the Creative Car Craft tin (actually fiberglass) . . . his engine bay got hacked out with a sawsall, then a piece of tin was fitted and cut to the shape of the type 1 engine and a rubber flap was riveted to it for a seal.  After a few years, (10 or so) the rubber fell apart . . . I'm using a pool noodle for a seal now.  It had a home-made mustache bar bolted to one of those oil pump cover brackets . . . eventually put in a motor with the correct block, but the block got cracked when I bottomed out on a pothole.  Ever since, I've run it with no bar . . . and no problems.

My recomendations are USE THE CCC FIBERGLASS . . . it uses stock, off the shelf seals all around and leaves the option of going back to a type 4.

Forget the mushdache bar.  It'll be fine without it.  If you put a high HP engine in, maybe it would be needed, but for a stock 1600, it's a waste of time and effort.

Don't hack up the wiring harness.  Try to leave everything so you can go back to a type 4 if yoiu ever wanted to . . . .

The number one recomendation if you do this is, Don't be in a hurry to get to your destination.  It will get yoiu there eventually . . .  

The pool noodle was on it when it took the trip to Huntsville and Knoxville in the same weekend.  It was running when I parked it!