# Karmann Ghia

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** volkswagen\
**Created:** [May 10, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615 "2010-05-10T00:48:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sneed1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sneed1974](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Sneed1974)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615/1 "2010-05-10T00:48:37Z")

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I am thinking about buying a Karmann Ghia as a project car and was wondering if it was possible to put a Porsche engine and transmission in. I was thinking about an engine from a Porsche 986 boxster as well as the transmission. was wondering if that was even possible

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615/2 "2010-05-10T00:52:31Z")

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Anything’s possible, given enough money. But very much money, in this case, going from air to water cooled, huge jump in hp, rear to mid-engine, etc. You’d probably be better putting custom bodywork on a Boxster to make it look like a KG.

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**Author:** ![waterboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waterboy/32/764_2.png) [@waterboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/waterboy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615/3 "2010-05-10T02:14:55Z")

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I had a friend put a gm 360 in an mg, the front suspension needed to be beefed up, anything is possible.

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/karmann-ghia/48615/4 "2010-05-10T13:49:53Z")

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Years ago, I saw a Corvair in a magazine that had a small block Chevrolet installed, so I suppose what you want to do is possible. I’ve actually seen a Chevrolet Vega station wagon with a V-8 engine installed.

Back in the 1950’s, I remember seeing a Buick V-8 installed in a 1953 Studebaker and a 1954 Cadillac V-8 installed in a 1951 Mercury. When I was a teenager, my parents had a 1952 Dodge with the flathead 6 that I drove. I thought I wanted to swap in a Dodge V-8 from 1953 or 1954, but my dad told me that the only engine he would allow me to exchange for the flathead 6 would be a Briggs and Stratton one cylinder of 3 horsepower.