The team devised a plan to join the two boxer engines using an elastomeric gasket, with the crankshafts connected, resulting in a 3.2 liter mid-mounted flat-eight engine. The eight exhaust pipes were connected into a single output, right above the five-speed gearbox from a Porsche 550 Spyder, which would also donate the drum brakes, the steering column and front suspension to the double engine Beetle. As you might imagine, by the time the work was done there was very little left of the original Beetle. The car's back half was transformed into a tubular structure mounted on the remains of the original chassis. Only a firewall separated the driver from the deafening invention - can you imagine the roar of a tuned air-cooled VW engine multiplied by two?
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