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Date:         Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:56:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: 15 degree engine?  Why that?
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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There's a lot less to do to the engine, and bell housing, if you do it that way. Doing it the diesel vanagon way......almost everything on the outside of the engine .... Oil pan, oil pump pick up tube, flywheel etc. etc. has to be to be swapped over. If you have a water boxer, then you need a diesel vanagon bell housing and input shaft, and starter and all that work. Especially if you are starting with a waterboxer vanagon, and not a diesel one. With a diesel one you have the engine cradle bars, aluminum mounts etc and of course you'd just fit it all into that configuration. But if you have a waterboxer vanagon, and none of those parts.............well, perhaps you can see the attractiveness of not chasing down all those parts. Thus it's is tempting to some people, though, to just keep the engine in the same configuration it came in, from its original jetta home, plus not needing all those DV parts. That's where people are coming from with this approach, I think. It's a toss up, both methods have advantages. Scott www.turbovans.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:22 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: 15 degree engine? Why that?

Just curious. Am I missing something? Why does the 15 degree engine transplant keep getting questions? It seems pretty wrong..like there are all kinds of reasons why you ( well, reasons that *I* would consider as 'deal-breakers') wouldn't probably choose to do it that way..Unless I am missing something, the diesel type 50 degree install seems like a no-brainer..It fits under, has just as much clearance as a regular van, no messing inside the motor or swapping major components around with other motors..Cheap as dirt and dead-nuts reliable..How many Rabbits, Golfs, Jettas etc are out there running on and on? Anywhere in the world you can find a mechanic that will know how to work on the inline four VW motors, and if you don't want to bother fixing it, should it ever break, just get another from the junkyard for a few hundred bucks.. Would a 15 degree install be cheaper somehow?

Just curious...Not saying there is anything wrong, if that is what you want to do. Don Hanson


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