Date:         Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:45:33 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Engine Conversions
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Hi,

If you are addressing my comments , well....of course you don't get the
adapter plate from any car parts dealer.

Nor the flywheel I imagine - though Kennedy probably sells an adapter and
flywheel for that engine to a vanagon transaxle, they do that for scads of
engine types, onto vw tranaxles, that's 'what they do.'  I image you could
get something from them for that part.

 

And you could fab your own engine mounting system, exhaust system, and air
filter system and so forth. 

Must be that there's not a lot of history of people doing that. 

It's surely doable.  

52 kits. 
One could get the impression there's more 'play time' going on on the dyno
than on production and marketing of kits, but that's fine !!  

I'm sure that part is MUCH more fun. 

 

The world low cost engine is excellent.  For sure. No doubt about it.

You know how some people resist Subaru in a vanagon because it's not german
and Volkswagen. ? .....being very anti-American car I think I resist the
'ford' aspect of it.

      I have always sought the 'perfect' donor engine - about the right size
and power, readily available, inexpensive, and durable - this would meet all
of those requirements. 

I'll bet I could sell lots of those kits.  

Scott 
www.turbovans.com <http://www.turbovans.com/>  

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Young
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Engine Conversions

 

True, there are several choices for Subaru conversions but this probably has
to do with all the different ways to do the conversion. With the Bostig kit
parts aren't really a concern because the adapter plate that enables the
zetec to mate with the stock VW tranny is the only engine part that you
can't get from any ol' car parts dealer. Every other component on the engine
is a stock zetec engine part (except the exhaust, but again any exhaust shop
worth its salt could handle that). The other benefit is that the zetec
engine is a "world car" component - meaning that Ford uses it in all of the
focuses, and Ford sells the focus in every market that it is in around the
world. So, in theory, if you were to convert your westy into a amphibious
vehicle and circumnavigate the globe in it you would be able to find parts
nearly everywhere you went. Not that you would need them - according to the
Bostig website, they have been trying to destroy the engine in the test
vehicle for years to no avail!

 

I also found on the website that only 52 kits have been sold so far, which
probably explains why so few people have seen one.

 

 

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