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Tim2cv
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 Alternative Engines I know there is the obvious GS/GSA Sidewinder options and the BMW bike engines but I would like to know more!!! On another forum I went on someone pointed out these engines! Rotax engines such as found on Microlites. 1200, 1300, turbo etc... looks yum too!   Go on Harry, be brave and have a go!
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Tim2cv
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Re: Alternative Engines
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Tim2cv
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Re: Alternative Engines
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Freeloadeur
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Joined: December 28th, 2009, 5:55 pm
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Location: Bourbriac, Bretagne
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Re: Alternative Engines Has anyone ever tried a Subaru engine in a 2CV? I've alays wondered if one could be squeezed in. Even better if you could get the 4x4 transmission in there too. 
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Neil
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Re: Alternative Engines
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Tim2cv
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Re: Alternative Engines i think this is cheating... not the 2cv spirit but still cool lol!  http://www.nes-cars.de/ente.html
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samfieldhouse
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Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
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Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: Alternative Engines My Grandad (at 93) until very recently had a '53 Jowett Javelin. Jowett's engine of choice was a horizontally opposed 4 cylinder type. More info here: http://toolsandgarages.info/?p=175They sound gorgeous 
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Rhythm Thief
Firing on two.
Joined: March 10th, 2010, 12:37 am
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Location: Alone in my polytunnel with my pitiful competition onions
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Re: Alternative Engines I saw an Acadiane at (I think) the 50th Anniversary Paris meeting with a Lotus Twin Cam engine mounted in the middle. The owner was trying to sell it (for £5 500 or so) but spent most of the meeting trying to get it to run properly, putting off any potential buyers.  Oddly enough, I was talking to one of my fellow lorry drivers at work the other day, and he mentioned that what sounds like the same van now lives in a yard near Gloucester with a load of other 2CVs. Apparently it still rarely works properly.
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Neil
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Re: Alternative Engines The Lotus Acadiane is owned by Dominic Weston - he's the CX registrar for the CCC. He joined up here a while back & promised to start a thread on said van...
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tarquin slough2cv
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Joined: February 15th, 2010, 12:18 pm
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Re: Alternative Engines are we taliking about the same acadiane here. there is 1 owned by andy weston that lives near me he works for his dad tony who runs a garage. the 1 hes got is sort of pinky red colour. it is in cambridge. not the cambridge but the 1 near me in glos just off the A 38. its a bit eorse for wear but has mot and does still work
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