Date:         Fri, 9 May 2003 17:08:50 -0400
Reply-To:     Jon Brown <jb510_yg@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jon Brown <jb510_yg@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tiico Engine Questions

In the book of happy TiiCo Engine converters add me to the list...

As I've said many many time before... does anybody search the archives?
Did anyone read the results of Alistair's survey?  seemed mostly positive to
me and I'm sure that people come to the list a lot more to complain then
they do to praise.  The happy ones are all out there enjoying there vans.

Look in the archives...  I've had problems, but they were minor in light of
dropping the "wrong" motor in the van.   The few problems I had were
expected and resolved without too much trouble and I truly feel I've had far
fewer troubles than I've heard/seen/born witness to with Subaru conversions.
I looked at doing a Subaru conversion for over a year before finally
deciding it just wasn't worth the hassle of becoming the only person that
would ever happily work on my van.

The one and ONLY complaint I have against TiiCo and Peter is the legality of
this conversion under California smog laws.  He's been claiming for nearly
two years to be "weeks" away from an executive order to make them legal here
and he's been less then open about his progress in getting an executive
order.  His utter disregard for the importance of this to the 50+ TiiCo
owners in California is a glaring mark against his otherwise excellent
customer service.

Jon Brown
86 Syncro Wolfy Weekender w/ TiiCo power for the last 30,000 miles...