Your lauphing!!!!! I considered this very closely... Take a Nissan Maxima motor and transaxle, and you would have a great quiet, smooth setup. Any horizontal mounted motor transaxle, would work fairly well. Lots of cutting, but once in I'm sure you would have a great van. Auto. only this way the shifter would be the only real problem. Mate the half shafts to get power to the wheels, and your done. To bad I could not find a cheap Maxima at the time of my swap.
Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler 92-Jetta GWC www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm On Thu, 1 May 2003, John Carpenter wrote: > In a message dated 5/1/03 4:24:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > kimbrennan@MAC.COM writes: > > > Yes, but consider the WRX is rated at 227 hp (217 ft/lbs of > > torque)...The next "weakest link" in the Vanagon is the transmission, > > which was designed for 100hp engines. > > > > I'll definitely consider a Subaru engine for the next conversion > > project, but I wonder how the stock transmissions fair with these high > > HP conversions? > > > > Since all of my Vanagons are syncros, this is an important > > consideration. > > > > > > On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Sullivan, Michael wrote: > > > > >and next year Subaru is supposed to offer a 6-cylinder boxer diesel!!!! > > > > > Hi Folks, > 4 the above mentioned reasons (i.e.), the tranny, > I`m seriously considering a Front Wheel Drive setup > where the engine is matched up to the tranny. > I feel we loose to much HP w/ the conversions. > And a nice 4 speed auto would be nice as well! > You would lose the under bench storage, > but a box could be fabricated in the unused space behind the trans. > How bout a 4.9 caddy set up? > Yeah, I know its not Fri yet... heh heh > John C... > SLC, UT > 85 & 91 Westies... > |
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