Buying the Adapter kit

I phoned DS-tuning and they told met they needed the flywheel of the engine, because they have to machine it. This is because it's a wasted spark system with a sensor which senses the flywheel. After machining I have to use the beetle clutch. This is something I am not entirely happy with, because with the Alfa clutch I am absolutely sure that the clutch can handle the power of the engine. But now I am happy I choosed the 1.4 engine which only has 90 pk, I think the beetle clutch should be able to handle this.
Luckily DS-tuning is only 80 km's from my hometown, so I will bring it myself.

The flywheel wasn't difficult to remove, you only have to remove the pressure plate and clutch and then 6 bolts. Here it is:

And this how the engine looks like without flywheel:

It isn't showed in the pictures, but I had to attach a strip of metal to an engine bolt and a small pin that sticking out of the flywheel to keep it from moving. Otherwise I couldn't get the bolts undone.

edit 23-12-2005: I've got my adapter kit from DS-tuning! I picked it up today. It looks quite good. They machined a elevation to overcome the distance from the clutch to the beetle gearbox. This is the flywheel with the elevation:

From the side you can see it's quite an beefy disk that's mounted to the alfa flywheel:

And this is the adapter plate for mounting the Alfa engine to the beetle gearbox:

When test-mounting the adapter plate to the engine I noticed a little problem with the flywheel-sensor (the sensor that is used by the CPU for determining the ignition moments). There is not enough room anymore to install it. This sensor is mounted on the side of the engine, half on the engine, half on the gearbox (in the original alfa set-up). But if I remove a little of the adapter plate it should all work out.

edit 21-01-2006: I had cut out a piece of the adapter plate to make room for the flywheel-sensor. On these pictures you can see why I had to cut a piece out of my brand new adaper plate:

I marked the piece that had to be cut-out and cut with my grinder:

After cutting that piece, I also had to grind a little bit out of the side of the adapter plate:

Test installation on the engine:

After that I painted it with zinc-spray:

Looks nice, doesn't it?



So, now I can start cutting up the rear end of my bug to make the engine fit....

edit 25-03-2006: The flywheel, clutchwheel and clutch is now installed.

Before installing the clutch:

I had to hammer in three spring-like pins. They looked like tubes, but with one side open, and it was made of spring-metal. That was a nasty job, I really didn't know what I was doing, and it appeared I had to hammer them pretty hard to get them in. But I got them in. You can see them between the pressure-plate bolts (one on the top slightly to the left, one on the bottom a little more on the left and one on the right middle side).

After that I installed the (beetle) clutch and pressure plate: