"Cracked up to be" as in cracked header pipes? .But if I could sell my Westfalia for 22 grand I would sell it too! It's not about the engine. I have driven on a 1995 Golf engine for the last 4 years. If it had anymore power I'd miss those dirt roads I love to find. Reliability? The inline four is a proven engine, I've said before, and it surpasses the WBX in many ways. I know because I work on and drive both. Most Tiico problems deal with the parts -some aren't up to par. The engine is sold by Tiico, not made by them. SO there are some failings, for example the solid-mount non-bellows headers. This resolved by using the bellows down pipes from a 93-later Golf-Jetta. So some of the external components are weak. And it's a lot of money to spend on less than perfect. I would want to trim off these parts if I was buying a kit from Tiico at a reduced cost. I would replace several of the parts with better US Golf- Jetta parts. I've coined a new word with my 2 cents-"critiicocism". RobertK 1982 Westfalia 1991 Syncro Vanagon ---- Jeff Engel vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Tiico conversions for sale Has to make you wonder if the Tiico conversion is all its cracked up to be ????? Jeff 1984 WestyHolen Sie mehr aus dem Web. Unter http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp#de gibt es einen KOSTENLOSEN Download von MSN Explorer. |
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