I dropped by my friend Russ' shop (Autospiel) yesterday and found that he was doing another engine swap on a customer's van. Its a Westy (automatic trans), '85?, being fitted with a 2.0 liter I4 (from '96 GTI). This time instead of fitting in the engine mount tubes from a diesel vanagon he fabricated a mounting bar that runs transverse under the engine. Russ said that in this particular conversion the diesel vanagon mounting bars/tubes (the ones that run fore-and aft on either side of the engine) interfered with the pulleys at the rear of the the ngine. The stock exhaust manifold on that engine points straight down and does not interfere with the engine mounts.
Alistair 189K miles on '82 westy, last 100k powered by 1800 8v I4. |
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