Funny you should mention the Subey engine!
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"Anthony W" > wrote in message
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> Tucker bought out the Franklin aircraft engine company and had one of
> their airplane engines converted to watercooled. For those that don't
> know the Tucker had a rear engine water cooled boxer 4, but the early
> prototypes were aircooled.
>
> I'm not sure what happened to the Franklin company. I know they were
> sold off after Tucker went broke.
>
> A 2.2 or 2.5 Subaru is going to give the most bang for the buck in a VW
> based dune buggy. All the adapters are all off the shelf items and the
> engines are commonly available.
>
> Tony