The engine is cranked over at 50 degrees just like a diesel vanagon. You need the same diesel stuff you would need for a gas-to-diesel conversion: oil pan, bell housing, input shaft, hanger bars and mounts. Probably some mounts, too, like vanagon diesel alternator mounts. I understand it all bolts right into a bus with an VW inline gas or diesel engine. I don't know how the transmission ratio works out with the gas engine's torque curve, but I imagine a few on the diesel list are familiar with it. I know it to be a good match with the diesel. Then you'd have to run coolant lines up front and put in a radiator, fan and shroud somehow and add relays, fuses and instruments. The engine would be the easy part. Jim On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Jeff Oxroad wrote: > Thanks for the information. > > OK, so now that we've determined the engine, are any of the parts > interchangeable with the Vanagon if one was doing a swap to an > inline 4? > > The bell housing? The oil pan? The...anything? Or is it all different? > > Just curious. > > Best, > Jeff > 83.5 Westy > LA,CA > > > > In a message dated 2/7/2007 7:59:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, > dhaynes@optonline.net writes: > Golf/Jetta I4! > |
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