>I've been searching the archives to find the messages abut the 6 cylinder >engine some of you put in your Vanagons and I can not seem to find it. Was >it called the SR6? > >Can someone who knows about it email me some info on the 6 cylinder engine >or refer me to a source with details like where to find and buy one. I'm >not ready for a new engine just yet and probably not for a long time but I >want to do some research & know more about it. Sounds fast, powerful and >reliable and I like power in my vehicles. > >By the way since I bought the 1989 Vanagon I hardly ever drive my Mercedes >anymore and it is a classy, comfortable and luxury car. I seem to prefer >the versatility of the "master vehicle."
That's the VW VR6 (Golf/Corrado/Sharan), now renamed V6. It's an oddball design, basically the same as the old narrow-angle Lancia Fulvia V4. A narrow-angle (12-15 degrees, can't remember) which uses ONE head with 2 camshafts; each camshaft runs all of the valves on one bank of cylinders, so technically in operation it's an SOHC design. The V5 is this engine minus one cylinder. The so-called "W" engine (really a double-V) is baseed on this design also, except that each bank is a complete narrow-angle V, so really has 4 banks... wierd. The EG33 engine from the Subaru SVX is an easier conversion, with much more power and it looks like it belongs in the Vanagon... the KEP Subaru 4-cylinder kit fits it also. DOHC 24V flat-six, 250+hp.
Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand |
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