Hi, We are trying to find out what happened inside the heads of Schults and Heinz (VW engineers that we cuss about when working on our cars ("That day Schultz said to Heinz over lunch "Fit, too tight a fit? No Heinz, we will place the bolt there - no problem -if people need to work on that part they will allways have taken the front half apart")) - on the day when they decided: "Lets convert the CU to water-cooled - it will be real easy, done quite fast, and a good stable conversion - instead of just using one of our great inline.-4 engines" So my basic question to this list - does anyone know about why VW decided to create the WBX, instead of changing to inline-4 in 1983? Here is what I have found so far: "The switch to water-cooling for the boxer engines was made abruptly mid-year in 1983 because VW could no longer make the air-cooled engines meet emissions standards"
Happy driving Jens Jakob |
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