Markus; Sounds cool. If I was going to convert my crew cab I would go for an air cooled Porsche six cylinder. Sounds like it would be cheaper and parts would be more readily available. I believe the six would mate up to the W/B transaxle, but I would opt for a Porsche Tiptronic. Since you got me started I might as well throw on some of those massive 911 disk brakes on all four corners. I better stop here before I have turbos and intercoolers shoe-horned in. One plus for this unit would be the elimination of all the coolant pipes and radiator. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 356B Coupe For Sale: 61 AustinHealey Sprite(not Bugeye);Daily driver $2500 On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:03:41 +0100 Markus Samuelson <BP@EARTHLING.NET> writes: >A conversion that is/was available here in Europe was the Oettinger = >boxer/flat 6 which is an engine that VW was to introduce to the >Vanagon, = >VW however dropped it when it became evident that they wouldn't have >it = >finished until a year or so before the introduction of the Eurovan. So >= >Oettinger bought/got the engines instead but I don't know if they make >= >them anymore. These are watercooled 6 cylinder boxer engines that (I = >belive) have a lot of the parts coming from the ordinary 4 cylinder = >boxers. > >A friend of mine in Germany has a Doublecab automatic with one of >these = >in and he has made quite a few BMW M3 owners very surprised and very >sad = >at the stoplights :-) > >/Markus Samuelson=20 >Sweden ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. |
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