>I contacted Clarks Corvair parts yesterday and got a very prompt reply >that was depressing :) > >They said that their engine swap kits worked on 68 to 79 busses, but >they have nothing for vanagons. I looked at their website briefly and >they inferred that they modify their engines for such swaps, to turn in >the other direction (the right way for VW), which I found fascinating. > >They don't know what VW did differently when they went to the vanagon, >so they didn't expect that their kits would work. > >A giant "awww rats" from this part of the valley. > >John That's pretty scarey. Not a whole lot of difference between a 79(bus) 1.8 Aircooled and an 80 (vanagon) 2.0 Aircooled. Mounting brackets? Transmission? I would think other than modifying the length of the input shaft from the transmission and a thousand other minor details, it would drop right in. Of course, thinking about pulling out a 20 year old engine (that there are lots of spares of) and putting in a 35 year old engine that there aren't many left of... doesn't compute. And then having to change the camshaft anyhowz... If you're gonna do a swap.... Perhaps "RoadCow" is the way you want to go. Just my opinion, tim o'brien
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