Date:         Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:40:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: WBX motor rather than ....
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net>
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Aw geez Don, leave your frigging Porsche out of a post for once.

Thanks in advance, the VANAGON LIST





On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:

>  So, I wonder which German company copied which?  When Porsche changed to
> water cooled they built a motor kinda like VWs..in that it's really an air
> cooled 911 cobbled up with water jackets around.  Is not the WBX similar
> (or
> vica/versa) with the WBX being an air cooled with water?
>  Except Porsche gave up after a few years of building what they called the
> 993 (the 'transition' motor) and built a whole new package, the
> 996..re-designed with only the opposed six configuration remaining from the
> air cooled one.
>  Wonder why VW stuck with the WBX for so long when it has weak spots?
>  Interesting though that those two companies, who are almost affiliated,
> did such similar transition from AC to water..
>  Don Hanson
>
>  PS...You Soobie guys...they at Porsche get about 475 rwhp from a normally
> aspirated engine suitable to go to Le Mans and run flat out for 24hrs..Try
> that with a turboless svx.
>



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Jake
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