In a message dated 10/15/06 2:55:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jamie@KOOKYMATHTEACHER.COM writes:
> I just recently adopted an '82 diesel westy. I absolutely love camping in > my vanagon but the power of a 1.6 NA scares me traveling > with my family. I am considering a Subaru conversion and realize that I > would have to change the gearing in the transmission. The > one flaw to my VW addiction is that my with cannot drive a manual > car.(Should I say that I don't let her ;0) I would love to > install an automatic transmission with the Subaru engine. How daunting a > task is this (tranny)? > > Jamie Auch > sell the diesel westy and buy a gas one with an auto trans.. there are lots of people out there who are looking for diesel westys..why go thru all the hassle? a diesel nut would gladly buy yours and just take the proceeds and buy a nice automtic waterboxer westy and put a subaru motor in it.. nobody will care if you pitch a waterboxer motor. chris |
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