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>Are the diesel engines from the early '80s based > > on a Type 4 gas engine? No, they are Golf engines. VW never produced an aircooled diesel, though a prototype diesel Beetle engine WAS made in the 60s, and someone in the States has made a replica, converting a gas Bug engine to diesel. You COULD try converting a Type 4 engine to diesel, but it'd be abig job, and with a 3-mainbearing crank I doubt it would last very long (flexing under compression loads) would chew-out the center bearing. >Are there other things besides the fuel injection > > that would need to be retrofitted into another car to make this work? -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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