VANAGON archives -- July 2004, week 4 (#319)

Date:         Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:03:40 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: FYI : 3.3 verses 4.3 verses 1.9???
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>Hi Guys !
>
>In Sweden we have a gov. car testing institute that collects information
>from car manufacturers and use that given info  as guideline when an
>engineswap is made ...
>These are  the recomendations given by Volkswagen regarding the reliability
>on the Vanagon gearboxes :
>
>4-speed
>No more than 90 horspowers and 147 Nm -torque
>
>5-speed, auto or Synchro
>112 hp / 174 Nm
>
>Regards
>Calle

And the stock engines are pushing those limits... guess my 1.8 Bay
was over the limits at a bit over 100hp.

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