« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2012, 08:34:47 am »
The Nobs and Fuldas had need of 10.2 cylinders for power as the car is bigger. That is desirable. Likewise the gearing suited that need so you could probably swap a gear cluster if you had the 'wrong' one as a 'Schmitter might want it. You can use a gearbox from a 175 or 150, though some are straight cut first and others have a clockwise thread in the output shaft. Often the clutch will go again and you get most of the special nuts and bolts if you break an engine. The gearchange mech will be there. Heads can be got. Crank would be difficult and a new or restored one is a very silly price (cheaper to shove a Honda engine in!) for no reason I have ever been able to understand. The casings Jonathon mentioned are about as technically they are not Schmitt so can be discards at a price. So if you got a set of casings and sourced the bits it is possible to build up a unit rather than try and buy one from a schmitter at the going rate.
The ancillaries are different so you need a drive sprocket, think I have them, mounting plates, filter etc. But this is from the Fulda folk or unwanted by Schmitters and should be cheaper stuff. If you are stuck for a reversing dynostarter a forward one would do temporarily. People tend not to want them so there are scooter ones about.
Its good fun creating an engine out of other peoples cast offs and some jumbling.

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