>I though about this either after a few beers _or_ early one morning on my >way to work (no-this wasn't the same time - we have an active >fitness-for-duty program!). > >Any rate, I'm sure the answer is "OF course - no!", probably due to >excellent technical reasons such as the boxer config is meant to be as light >as possible and wouldn't hold up to the pressuers a diesel generates. > >But I have to naively ask, because such an engine would probably easily fit >under the vanagon engine lid plus other advantages from the engine-swap >standpoint. VW did build ONE diesel Beetle prototype, which no longer survives, apparently (read about it in one of the US VW magazines some years ago). Someone in the US built a replica, using I think a 40-horse engine as a base. Try a Google search for Beetle diesel & ignore all the New Beetle garbage. -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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