Take the engine completely apart, because it's located between the two halves of the engine case.
automatic or manual doesnt matter because that's talking about the tranny. ONLY swap a camshaft if its the EXACTsame engine.
yes
The correct firing order is 1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8, but, sometimes people swap out the camshaft for a 351 Cleveland cam which has the firing order of 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8
The starter and camshaft ! If you were to custom make a camshaft and reverse the polarity of the starter. . .it could very easily run the opposite direction ! (assuming that you have a custom oil pump and swap a few spark plug wires around).
not worth changing the crankshaft, better to swap the engine with new or used engine, now if it is the camshaft that is more cost effective.
your best bet to get more power than a d15 is to engine swap. a b18, b16, or a k20 are the most readily available. youll probably end up spending less on a b18 swap than upgrading the cams on a d15
No. The camshaft position sensor and crankshaft position sensor tone wheels are different. It may fit, but the engine will not run.
No....BUT... You can swap over certain years brakes/rotors from the Karman Ghia over to the Beetles. Or you can buy the "kits" that do the same thing.
it will fit fine, though you might need to swap the clutch release bearing and the cover plate.
The camshaft is right inside the middle of the engine. It is a big job and I think you will need more answers than you will find here to replace it. You better buy the book "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" Replacing the camshaft requires a complete engine teardown; there is no engine that I know of that's harder to get a cam out of than an aircooled VW. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of the VW engine design. Hot rodders LOVE hot cams because you can get a lot of power pretty easily that way. The difference between hot rodders and us is that if a hot rodder picks the wrong cam, it isn't going to take him a whole day to swap it out--and on Detroit iron, you can usually change the cam without even pulling the engine. You and I, if we blow our cam selection our wives will wonder if they're EVER going to get the table back. (Your wife won't let you rebuild VW engines in the dining room? Bummer.) I recommend mild cams on VWs, and getting your horsepower somewhere else--like in the heads.
it`s in the distributer. you have to replace the whole thing to fix it, you cant just swap the internals. but if its having idle problems and you checked the check engine light, and it showed camshaft sensor it may be the fuel pump, that's what happend to me and i replaced the whole ignition system till i figured it at. good luck
auto swap meets you can find ads and manuals and look on you tube for old commercials.