Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:54:58 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Engine swap step by step.
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I honesty thought that it was a typo.
Why would anyone just want to pull one and plug in another WBXer unless they
had some major improvement.
Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Engine swap step by step.
> Hmm. I see what you're thinking Stan, but I'm not so sure he meant he
wanted
> to do a Subie conversion so much as he wanted to pull his VW engine and
> replace it with another VW engine left over from somebody else's Subie
> conversion.
>
> At any rate, Jim- if you wanted to do a Subie conversion, start with
Stan's
> info. If you wanted to swap stock engines, there's a blow-by-blow for each
> stock engine in section '10' in the Bentley (labeled 'Engine-Assembly',
> right in the front after the index and general info).
>
> I'm sure there are lots of tips, tricks and elaborations in the archives
to
> supplement the book:
>
> http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html
>
> Good luck and keep us posted!
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Engine swap step by step.
>
>
> > Try this site for help.
> > http://www.cycoactive.com/Urabus/urabus_registry.html
> > http://volksweb.relitech.com/convert.htm
> >
http://www.weirdstuffwemake.com/weird/stuff/automotive/vanagon/soob_engine.html
> > http://volksweb.relitech.com/subacrew.htm
> >
http://www.weirdstuffwemake.com/weird/stuff/automotive/vanagon/soob_electrical.html
> > You need to go over to Yahoo Groups and get with the Vanagon Subaru
> > Conversion group there.
> > I've only done one conversion and that was just the bolt together part.
> > Someone else made up the wire loom and installed all the electrical.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> > Engine Ceramics
> > 214-352-4931
> > www.engineceramics.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Henry" <jhenry@JCHGIS.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:24 AM
> > Subject: Engine swap step by step.
> >
> >
> >> Replacing exhaust manifold that was improperly replaced by former
owner's
> >> incompetent mechanic, has escalated to very difficult, if not
impossible
> >> project and may at the least mean removal and perhaps replacement of
the
> >> head. (I have suffered from every repair that they made, bus would have
> > been
> >> trouble free if they had never repaired it. Fortunately not in business
> > any
> >> more) I have a spare engine that I have never heard run but was
replaced
> >> with a Subaru by its former owner, supposedly with less than 70K miles,
> > half
> >> that of my engine, so I am tempted to pull original and replace with
> > spare,
> >> hoping for the best.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a web site or document with a step by step procedure
> >> that
> >> might keep me on the right track. I have a copy of the Bentley manual,
> > but
> >> find it lacking in offering the correct sequence of action.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help and advice.
> >>
> >> Jim Henry
> >>
> >> 84 Westy
> >> Durham, NC
> >>
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