Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:04 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: -Now Engine Conversion - doing your own soobie wire harness
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OK. BenT's off his meds...again.
Cool down Ben, it will all be better, soon, soon.
Mike
On 3/11/08 12:02 PM, "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> On 3/11/08, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>>
>> Japanese domestic market.
>> A made-for the Japanese market engine.
>> They always are pretty low miles too, about 40K>
>
>
>
>
> It always cracks me up when something like a Vanagon part gets advertised as
> "JDM". For example one ad for an SA grill said, "JDM grill and lights for
> your Vanagon." The same guy was also selling US-spec rectangular headlights
> as "JDM aerodynamic headlights. Not a cheap sealed beam."
>
> On that note, who documents how many miles those so called "JDM engines"
> have? Do you just operated on blind faith that the vendor is being truthful?
> Oh I almost forgot, that Subie converting Vanagons is akin to a religious
> experience for some.=)
>
> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got one of those too Subie thingies too. I worshipped
> at the Altar of the Perpetual Openhouse which made enough dough to buy
> someone's almost turnkey conversion. Damned thing burned tranny seals on a
> regular basis until an oilcooler was installed. I also lost time trying to
> add PS & AC. No one can tell me that it wasn't a painful process to figure
> out why my AC compressor was sizzling hot after I hooked up the Subie parts
> to the VW system and took it for a test run. The compressor got so hot that
> we had to pour water over it for fear of causing damage to adjacent
> components. The steam came out for 5 minutes. All that time spent sorting
> out problems definitely cost me money in the long run.
>
>
> Praise be the Subie. Hallelujah. On the other end of the scale, my inline-4
> VW conversions were fairly well sorted and relatively painless. My local VW
> shop was even happy to do my regular service. I can't say the same about the
> low-mileage Subie conversions that were sitting in line for
> engine replacements. They were waiting for the shop owner to force one of
> the mechanics to work on them. They all eventually went home happy with
> their new JDM engines. For how long, I don't know. You've seen one Subie
> conversion, you've seen them all.
>
>
>
> BenT
>
> (Mike Miller's JDM illegitimate Grandson -- Jack Da Miller) HAR, HAR, HAR.
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