Date:         Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:22:18 -0500
Reply-To:     "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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From:         "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
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Kim writes: "I'm concerned that we don't really know how well the I4s...
are going to go in an application for which they were never intended. "
>>>>>>>>>

Uh... VW used that same I-4 in the Vanagon in South Africa until 2000 or
2001. What is the issue?

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<<<SNIP>>> go for
this sort of distance too, (my 74 has done 300,000km which is 180,000
miles and is still going fine). My point was that if you put that same
engine into a Van it doesn't last well at all. I'm concerned that we
don't really know how well the I4s or Subarus are going to go in an
application for which they were never intended. It's promising that
there is one report of an I4 doing 100,000, but for me at least, the
jury is still out until I hear some more evidence of these engines doing
well in the long term.

Kim Howe
khowe@omninet.net.au
82 Aircooled