Hi Barry, It might delight you to know that Diesel boxermotors have been made in Germany in their thousands for decades. They were made by the Deutz company. They came in two, four and six-cylinder configurations and were used in many applications, from trucks and buses to heavy construction plant and stationary industrial use. The big bonus for VW fans is that the engines were air cooled, with finned cylinders that were very reminiscent of a VW air cooled motor. Alas, Deutz no longer make boxermotors but some air-cooled in-line motors are still made for some purposes. The Deutz web site is in German and English:
Best regards,
Tony ('84 Vanagon Reimo, soon to be replaced by '90 Vanagon CL 1.6 TD)
---------- Original Message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:57:14 -0500 From: "Barry E. Muller" <bmuller@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU> Subject: Kinda-Friday has anyone built a diesel boxer? 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. tx, bem-stem ------------------------------
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