Date:         Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:34:33 -0700
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From:         brions cars <zion-porsche-vw@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: aircooled waterboxer
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Just a little info:

T2c 
Brazilian version of the VW Type 2 with a Diesel water cooled engine
The T2c, so called since it got a slightly raised roof - by about 10 cm - in the early 1990s, was built for the South American<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America> and Central American<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America> markets. The T2c was produced in Mexico<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico> until 1991* with the 1.6 L air-cooled<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-cooled> Type 1 engine, and from 1991 until 1996 with water-cooled<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-cooled> engines from the VW Golf<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Golf> (a VW/Audi 1.4L I4<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-4>).

Since 1997, the T2c has been built in Brazil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil> with air-cooled engines for the Brazilian market and with water-cooled engines for the Mexican market, the latter easily identified by their large, black-coloured, front-mounted radiators. Since production of the original Beetle was halted in late 2003 as a 2004 model, the T2 remained the only Volkswagen model with the traditional air-cooled, rear-mounted boxer engine when the Brazilian model shifted to water-cooled on December 23<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_23>, 2005<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005>. Previously, the water-cooled T2c was sold in Mexico between 1997 and 2002. There was also a water-cooled Diesel version of the T2, which was manufactured from 1981 to 1985 in Brazil.

The shift to water-cooled engines is in response to Brazil's emission laws which go into effect for 2006 and beyond. The new water-cooled engine will run on petrol as well as alcohol<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible-fuel_vehicle>, which costs about 50% less than ordinary fuel in Brazil. The engine is an EA-111 1.4 8v Total Flex. 1390 cc, 78 hp (58 kW) on petrol, and 80 hp (60 kW) when run on ethanol<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol>.



Brion S.

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