I have seen a few mods using carbed engines try to make it through air here in colorado. They usually fail or only pass after extensive tuning work. The 1.8 has a newer injected version but it doesnąt meet the power of the 2.2 or the ease of install either. jimt On 3/4/05 13:41, "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU> wrote: > i'm no subaru expert but i can say this when i lived out in montana there > was a guy that made most of his living doing subaru swaps in bays and > vanagons. this is way before they became popular, back in about 1995. > anyhow i think he was using the 1.8, the ones he used were models > with carbs. the 84 vanagon that i bought my spare 1.9 from received one > of these conversions. > > jonathan > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Sam Walters wrote: > >> On that Subaru engine: Like the sellers Subaru, the Vanagon conversion >> needs the 2.2 l engine also. The 1.8 l for sale is not the correct >> engine for the conversions that typically done on Vanagons. These are >> the 90 and later 2.2, 2.5, 3.3 l engines. |
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