Date:         Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:18:54 -0500
Reply-To:     dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vngns ARE junk!-Engine base
Comments: To: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
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The Water Boxer is Type 1 based except for the flywheel and mounting, and the valve lifters. The cylinder spacing, valve covers, Rocker Arms, Cam shaft and bearings, oil pump, and even the Rod bearings are type 1 origin.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:48 am
Subject: Re: Vngns ARE junk!

> >
> >In fact the T3 engine IS a modified Type 1, adapted for watercooling;
> >NOt a Type 4. The crank is interchangable with a Type 1.
>
> Really? I was under the impression that the 1.9 and 2.1
> wasserboxers were
> derived from the same aluminum-cased  2.0 air cooled engine that
> precededthem. Didn't the 2.0l "pancake" aircooled originally come
> from the Type 4?
> Can't say as I see how the wasserboxer bears a greater resemblance
> to the
> Type 1 engine, what with it actually having an oil filter and not
> having a
> pile of parts stacked vertically above the intake manifold. The
> crankshaftdoesn't determine the engine type, does it?
>