Date:         Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:39:52 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: 6 cylinder engine?
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>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