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Date:         Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:36:27 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Engine conversion
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Any decent competent general mechanic will be able to work on a converted car. If you don't like all-makes garages, take it to a GOOD VW outfit for nonengine-related work, and for engine work take it to a GOOD outfit that deals with that make of engine. For modified electrics, take it to an outfit specializing in multimake electrics. Then again, if you live in a city of decent size there should be outfits who work on modified vehicles anyway. With luck they'll be competent.

If a mewchanic refused to work on my hybrid because it's a hybrid, he's admitting incompetence, I wouldn't want him to get his hands on it anyway. a Subaru engine is a Subaru engine. Putting it in a VW bus doesn't alter it in any way. A Golf engine in an exboxerbus is no less a hybrid.


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