Date:         Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:45:33 -0500
Reply-To:     Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
Comments: To: Greg Potts <greg@pottsfamily.ca>
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Anyone got a pic of the front mounted rad -- I've never seen one.........

Cheers,
Doug

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Greg Potts <greg@pottsfamily.ca> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> The Mexican buses went out of production in the 90's. There are
> watercooled buses in production today in Brazil.
>
> I am currently in the gathering stages of converting my aircooled
> westfakia to an inline 4 using a Mexican transmission and a
> front-mounted rad. I don't plan to use the (IMO) ugly plastic Mexican
> radiator, instead I will covertly place the rad in a faux spare tire.
>
> Benny Boy currently has custody of the Mexi-trans, and there's a 1.6TD
> engine allocated to the project once it comes out of the donor vehicle.
>
> I expect it may be on the road in 2010.
>
> A crafty exporter could probably come up with a Brazilian conversion kit
> using all new parts, but AFAIK so far no-one has.
>
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> Greg Potts
> 1973/74/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
> 1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
> www.busesofthecorn.com
> www.pottsfamily.ca
>
>
>
> John Rodgers wrote:
>
>> Have the Mexican built buses based on the '70's model - with the inline
>> four and the external add-on radiator - gone out of production? I wonder
>> if those '70's machines legal here could be converted to inline four's
>> with relative ease using an add-on radiator out front?
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>>
>


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