Date:         Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:46:00 +0100
Reply-To:     Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@ZORCK.DK>
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From:         Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@ZORCK.DK>
Subject:      The real story about the invention of the WBX?
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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